Impersonating Perfume: The Aprils and SMAP

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:

Aprils as Perfume

Perfume’s Complete Best album:

Aprils as Perfume

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

Aprils as Perfume

• 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

Love the World PV released! + Live @Hey!x3

Perfume’s promotion video for their seventh single love the world started broadcasting on TV yesterday morning.
Perfume also appeared on Fuji TV’s Hey!Hey!Hey! to promote the new song, performing a perfect syncro dance routine plus a talk that includes a surprise to A~Chan.

Copyright issues…

…again. This time it’s about Veoh, the account where I used to upload Perfume videos.
When I uploaded Love the world PV, this message was instantly sent to my email inbox:

Dear ekuseru,
Veoh has received a notice from a copyright holder or otherwise discovered that the videos listed below and posted through your account contain material alleged to infringe on copyrights held by another party.
Posting infringing content on Veoh is a violation of our Terms of Service policies.As a result we have disabled access to those videos on the Veoh service. In addition, if this account continues to be used to post infringing content we will have to terminate your account.
Copyrighted content may include things such as television shows, movies, concerts or DVD copies, unless they consist of content you created entirely yourself.
If you believe this action is a mistake and you do have the right to post this content or have received permission from the copyright owner, you can file a DMCA counter notification. To find out more see our DMCA policy.
Infringing videos:
* Perfume – Love the World
If you have any questions please contact copyright-notice@veoh.com or see our FAQs.
The Veoh Team

Of course this is the same that happened to my account at Youtube, I got an email first, then in a couple of weeks my account was disabled. I understand that Tokuma Japan Communications and JASRAC are veiling for Japanese artists like Perfume, helping them to raise their sales and incomes.

BUT they still don’t seem to get that, hey, people like us who upload recorded videos from TV to the Internet via sites like YouTube or Veoh are actually helping our groups. I’m sure that dozens, if not hundreds, of people around the world discovered Perfume by chance in a random J-whatever website.
And then they became fans, who actually most of them buy their music online. Is that an example of how useful is the free promotion around the internet? And yes, that includes allowing uploads of videos and music if that helps the artist became more popular.

So, people from Tokuma Japan Comm., listen, we will find ways to share videos and music of Perfume, Internet is the only way for us to stay updated about it, and that helps Perfume a lot.

Love the world downloads

PV
From JPOPSUKI (MPEG2 145MB)
From JPOPSUKI (AVI XVID 73MB)
Direct Download (Perfume City BBS)

MP3 (PV audio rip)
Direct Download (Perfume City BBS)

Live @ Hey!Hey!Hey! 2008.06.23
From JPOPSUKI (MPEG2-TS 230MB)

Perfume Night vol.2

Perfume Night Vol.2 Poster

This is the official poster designed by pinksun and meeres for “Perfume Night vol.2“.

Perfume Night is an unofficial meeting organized by Perfume fans in Japan. It consists on an all-night event with -naturally- Perfume music with DJs and also VJs plus extra scheduled plans.
Perfume Night vol.1 was a success among Perfume fans in Japan, so for everyone who have the chance to go will be welcome.

This is a recording from Perfume Night vol.1:

At this time, they will have several DJs and VJs and also free PINO for everyone!

Some of the clarifying notes on their official blog says: “ID is required for admission”, “Don’t throw away rubbish (e.g Pino box,…)” ECO soul ! or “Perfume or capsule members won’t be there”. Check out their official blog for more details.

Date: June 28, 2008 (Saturday) 22:00 ~ all night!!!
Location: Roppongi CUBE
Entrance: ¥2,000 (1 drink)

* Organizer: matekoi

via 小心者の杖日記 (shiyoushinmono’s blog)
Perfume Night Official Blog
Perfume Night Mixi Community