is a Japanese

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band consisting of producer

Yasutaka Nakata is a Japanese DJ and music producer. He formed the band Capsule in 1997 with vocalist Toshiko Koshijima and himself as composer and record producer when both were 17. The band debuted in 2001 with the song "Sakura". He is known for being the ...

and vocalist

Toshiko Koshijima is a Japanese singer. Along with composer, record producer and DJ Yasutaka Nakata, she is the lead vocalist of the electronica band Capsule, which she formed in 1997 with Nakata when they were both 17. Their formal debut came in 2001 with the ...

Career

Capsule formed in November 1997, after Yasutaka Nakata and Toshiko Koshijima met at the Teens' Music Festival in the Hokuriku area convention when they were both 17 years old. Their first single was "Sakura", released in March 2001 on Yamaha Music Communications. Their first album, ''High Collar Girl'', was significantly different from their later works in that it did not involve nearly as much use of synthesizers or contain futuristic/electronic sounds. Capsule's style in albums up to ''L.D.K. Lounge Designers Killer'' (2005) was frequently referred to as "neo-Shibuya-kei" due to their stylistic similarities, both aesthetically and musically, to acts from the

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movement of the 1990s, most notably

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. It contained elements of

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and

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. From ''Fruits Clipper'' (2006) on their style was increasingly

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. Capsule is known for frequently licensing their music for use on television programs in Japan, such as

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, and

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's studio, Tha of Japan, used Capsule's music for promotional TV and web advertisements for KDDI. Their song Portable Airport (remix) is featured in promos for

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on Australian pay TV. The album ''

More! More! More! ''More! More! More!'' is the tenth studio album by the Japanese electronica band Capsule, released on November 19, 2008. The album reached #3 and #6 on the Oricon daily and weekly charts, making it the band's most successful album in their caree ...

'' ranked 6th in its first week on the

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weekly album chart, and ranked 3rd on the daily chart, marking their first time in the top 10. On January 19, 2010, Capsule released "Love or Lies" which was used as an insert song for the show ''Liar Game Season 2'' and the movie ''Liar Game: The Final Stage''. It was included on their album, ''

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'', which was released on March 3, 2010. Their twelfth studio album, initially titled ''KILLER WAVE'', was originally slated for a March 23, 2011, release. But following the

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, the album title was changed to ''

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'' and its release was postponed to May 25, 2011. The band's fourteenth album, '' Caps Lock'', was released on October 23, 2013. Their fifteenth album, '' Wave Runner'', was released on Feb 18, 2015. Capsule's first new song in six years, ''Hikari no Disco'', was teased in April 2021 and was released on June 3, 2021. On the 25th of October 2022 Capsule announced their 16th studio album, titled ''Metro Pulse'', which was released on the 14th of December, 2022.

Discography

Maxi singles

# 001.03.28 # 001.07.04 # 001.10.17 # 002.08.21"Music Controller" # 002.11.20 # 003.05.21 # 004.02.04

12" vinyl singles

# 003.02.20"Cutie Cinema Pre-Play" # 003.05.21"Tone Cooking" # 003.09.17"Idol Fancy" #

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"Portable Airport" # 005.02.02"Space Station No.9" # 005.08.06"Aeropolis" #

006.04.19 6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number. In mathematics Six is the smallest positive integer which is neither a square number nor a prime number; it is the second smalles ...

" Jelly" # 006.12.13"Starry Sky" # 007.09.05"Capsule rmx EP" # 007.11.07"Musixxx / I'm Feeling You" # 008.10.08"Jumper"

Digital singles

# 005.05.02cafe unice (CONTEMODE EXTENDED MIX) #

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Sugarless GiRL # 008.11.19more more more # 008.11.19the Time is Now # 010.01.19Love or Lies -LIAR GAME original ver- # 010.03.03Stay with You -LIAR GAME original ver- # 011.02.09WORLD OF FANTASY # 012.02.01Step on The Floor # 013.10.16CONTROL # 014.12.29Feel Again # 015.01.28Another World # 015.02.10Hero (extended mix) # 015.02.10White As Snow (extended mix) # 021.06.04Hikari no Disco (ひかりのディスコ) # 021.06.24Utsusemi (KNIGHTS OF SIDONIA Ai Tsumugu Hoshi) (Movie Version) # 021.09.10Future Wave (フューチャー・ウェイヴ) # 021.12.10Virtual Freedom (バーチャル・フリーダム)

Albums

# 001.11.21''High Collar Girl'' # 003.03.19''Cutie Cinema Replay'' (2,106 copies sold) # 003.11.19''phony phonic'' (3,501 copies sold) # 004.06.09'' S.F. sound furniture'' (12,172 copies sold) # 005.02.09''Nexus-2060'' (9,024 copies sold) # 005.09.21''

L.D.K. Lounge Designers Killer ''L.D.K. Lounge Designers Killer'' is the sixth album by the Japanese electronica band Capsule (band), Capsule. It was released in 2005 and peaked at No. 49 on the Oricon weekly charts. A remastered version of the album was released in 2022 ...

'' (10,707 copies sold) #

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'' Fruits Clipper'' (12,275 copies sold) #

Sugarless Girl ''Sugarless Girl'' is the eighth album by the Japanese electronica Electronica is both a broad group of electronic-based music styles intended for listening rather than strictly for dancing and a music scene that started in the early 1990s in th ...

'' (23,324 copies sold) # 007.12.05''

Flash Back ''Flash Back'' is an album by the Japanese electronica band Capsule. It was released on 5 December 2007. It is their first original album to be released after they announced a semi-hiatus in summer 2007, after promotions for '' Sugarless Girl' ...

'' (37,915 copies sold) # 008.11.19''

'' (67,309 copies sold) # 010.03.03''

'' (47,853 copies sold) # 011.05.25''

'' (previously ''Killer Wave''; 25,000 copies sold) # 012.03.07'' Stereo Worxxx'' (24,000 copies sold) # 013.10.23'' Caps Lock'' (17,000 copies sold) # 015.02.18'' Wave Runner'' # 022.12.14''

Metro Pulse ''Metro Pulse'' was a weekly newspaper in Knoxville, Tennessee. It was founded in 1991 by Ashley Capps, Rand Pearson, Ian Blackburn, and Margaret Weston, and was a member of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies. In 2007, ''Metro Pulse'' ...

Compilations

# 009.08.26''

Flash Best ''Flash Best'' is the first compilation album by the Japanese electronica band Capsule. The limited release first press also included a DVD with music videos of "Flash Back", "Jumper",　"Sugarless Girl", "Glider", "Portable Airport",　"Space ...

'' (34,578 copies sold) # 013.03.06''

Rewind Best ''Rewind Best'' (stylized as rewind BEST) is a series of two greatest hits albums by the Japanese electronica band Capsule (band), Capsule, simultaneously released on March 6, 2013. The releases contain fifteen songs each. The first album, ''Rewin ...

-1'' (2012→2006) (6,000 copies sold) # 013.03.06''

-2'' (2005→2001) (5,000 copies sold)

Remix albums

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''Capsule rmx'' (11,112 copies sold)

References

External links

capsule Official website

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