The coupling song with Love the world upcoming single is a very Nakata Yasutaka / capsule style. The complementary side of Love the world, edge is a techno/electro long song (6:29, not sure if this is the extended version) with a lot of Kashiyuka, robotized voices and electro loops. Enjoy!

Download the mp3 preview here

The other day we wrote about the copyright issues Tokuma Japan is having with online video websites (Youtube, Veoh,…). About a month ago I read in (the) Road to the Deep East an article of Perfume’s new single and the author asked himself why Perfume is so desperate with the time between releases – they used to release one or a couple of singles per year. This may be caused by their success since Polyrhythm release a year ago, but this also can have something to do with the disbanding of Southern All Stars (read the above linked blog for more information on that). So is Perfume’s agency Amuse looking for ways to earn more from the increasing popularity of the group? Is banning online videos a way to achieve it?

And now, via this thread on the BBS (titled Someone figured out how to keep their ltw video on YouTube by pinoxperfume) is this what we’ll have to do if we want to upload the latest promotion videos of Perfume?

That’s a funny way to cheat on YouTube‘s recognition system…! YouTube has a video recognition system that automatically find the videos under the “copyright defender companies blacklist” and delete them. Veoh has a similar but less complex way too, so if you upload a video named “perfume – love the world” you’ll instantly get an email advice from them to warn you about the illegal activity you was going to commit!

To top it all, and also read yesterdey on (the) Road to the Deep East, Niconico Douga, the Japanese most popular online video site is about to start banning fan anime videos (MAD) in collaboration with some of the most important anime industries associations.

Aren’t they going too far? I mean, is this thing of uploading videos to Internet that bad for the artists we like? I know it’s all about money, but in fact I believe this really helps the group/product. Who earns money with fan videos or promotion videos? Does anybody lose money? Please somebody tell me why we have to fight against them. Come on, big shots, love the fans, love the world!

I don’t endorse piracy but I support ways to “unofficially” promote our beloved artists… and that means uploading videos to make them known by as much people as possible, making fan videos/remix/misc art, sharing music and tv shows. It’s actually a very good way to promote a group. If we like what we listen and see online, we’ll support the group buying legal stuff, I mean it!

Even if we’ve got to spend more money on shipping fees!

The Aprils & Perfume

The Aprils celebrated last April’s Fool day (April 1st) with a special site (only available that day, now has been removed) with “idol” contents tributing Perfume.

The Aprils are a band formed by two guys and one girl. Their electro music is similar to Perfume or capsule’s and related artists… YMCK, RAM RIDER or Aira Mitsuki and also to some of the Contemode (Nakata Yasutaka label) groups.
That 1st of April they released a fake new single called Stainless Girl, a clear reference to capsule and Perfume song titles (capsule’s album and song name Sugarless Girl, and Perfume’s song Linear Motor Girl or the most recent Ceramic Girl). They also cosplayed as Perfume’s Complete Best CD jacket art, and even recorded a PV imitating Perfume’s Polyrhythm PV scenes and CG.

That video was uploaded by them to Youtube but was removed after that day… but I recovered the video file so you can watch it here:

capsule’s Flash Back album style:

Perfume’s Complete Best album:

And Perfume’s Polyrhythm CD/DVD cover art version:

• More about The Aprils

Time After Time (music video)

The Aprils: Works
Official Site (Jap/Eng)

SMAP & Perfume

• Perfume performed with SMAP Polyrhythm and Yozora no mukou, music re-arranged by Nakata Yasutaka.

• SMAP members as “Percume”

• More about SMAP

Official site
SMAPxSMAP TV show featuring Perfume