Note: Some pages will remain broken for a few days, we are working on fixing them. The Lyrics page is showing all the links to the lyrics but the page is broken so it may look weird until we fix it. Sorry about that!

So it’s been a while since this fansite was born: June 2006. We’ve been growing along with Perfume and now all that I can do is thank all the fans around the world who have been supporting Perfume and also contributing to this fansite.

I also want to thank our main supporter and friend slimjackson who is always aiming to improve the site’s and forums overall performance. Also, thanks to our Forum moderators and all the members for making the forums a nice place and keeping us up to date on Perfume’s latest news.

I must admit that lately the site has highly reduced it’s number of updates. That is caused due to my current personal situation that is, in short, the lack of Internet access at home, and unfortunately that ain’t gonna change soon… So if you want to write for Perfume City, we’re now looking for guest bloggers, contact us at: perfume.fansite at gmail dot com. Update 7/22: We’ve received quite a bunch of emails. We’re no longer taking applications for guest bloggers, thank you!

That said, it’s time to announce upcoming events related to people willing to contribute spreading the love for Perfume.
There’s currently a project known as Sekai no Perfume where fans of Perfume around the world are going to gather and send a Fan Letter / Video Message / Cover songs and more stuff to Perfume. Find more information clicking on the banner in the sidebar or clicking here.

Some members of the forums are creating a Perfume Wiki. Currently is hosted in wiki-site.com and you can freely contribute, but it will be part of Perfume City soon.

Also a Perfume T-Shirt contest is about to begin,  I’ll post more information, rules and guidelines in upcoming posts.

Hope you like Perfume City’s new design!

Perfume’s third album is out today, ⊿  ( Triangle ), as a limited (CD+DVD) and a normal (CD) edition.

Download it here. Buy at: CDJAPAN | HMV | AMAZON | YESASIA

Perfume’s new album titled “⊿” (Triangle) is scheleduled for July 8, includes 3 previously released songs as singles: “love the world“, “dream fighter” and “one room disco“. 2 songs that were included with singles: “edge (triangle mix)” and “negai (album version)“, both of them rearrenged for this new album.

The rest of the tracks on the album (7) -including “night flight” that was recently promoted along a new TV and web commercial with Pino- are brand new tracks:

· Take Off. Overlapped synth arpeggio and breakbeats, introduction to the album.
· NIGHT FLIGHT. 80’s techno-pop style song, high tempo (145BPM) and 8bit sounds.
· Kiss and Music. Funk-groove songs about erotic/love songs but the mood of this song has an opposite mood using a moog’s arpeggio, and the vocals are inorganic, mixing it up in a kitsch tune.
· Zero Gravity. Jazzy electro piano, bossa mood song.
· I still love U. 80’s new music love song. An impressive melody line.
· The best thing. House love song that begins with a synth arpeggio solo. Nakata Yasutaka’s stylemark.
· Speed of Sound. Percussive, latin-house beat basis, jazzy club track. Vocals are only words.

• Source: iLOUD club & rock web magazine (source is currently missing, 404 error)

ONE ROOM DISCO ranked #1 on it’s first week in the Oricon charts selling over 88,075 copies. And for those who live in Japan, Perfume had surprises for them as they did with previous releases. Buying a limited copy of ONE ROOM DISCO and filling the included form, there was many rare goods you could get: “Live backstage invitation”, “Fan’s Home Visit” And lots of goods: 100 “Perfume Original Goods” gifts, 3 “Unique Deluxe One Room Disco CD Sleeve Case”, 1 “Perfume rare T-shirt (Staff T-shirt or Member T-shirt)” and more original goods.

Perfume’s third Live DVD was released on April 23: BUDOUKaaaaaaaaaaN!!!!! with footage from their 2-days Live at Nippon Budoukan on November 6 and 7, 2008. Also with unreleased and backstage footage including a PV for Butterfly []. Also and before you buy the DVD (if you already hadn’t yet!) check out the forums for snapshots or previews. There’s also a complete review at The Bonkurasu Brigade.

They became the new MUSIC JAPAN hostesses [],[]. They have their weekly appearance talking with guests and we can enjoy their performances: One Room Disco, MACARONI (sheleduled fo next week’s program -May 3st-). They promoted ORD in many TV music shows, but this one from Music Station (March 27) was one of the best TV stages to date: One Room Disco @MS 20090327

Perfume also won the Best Choreography Video prize from SPACE SHOWER VMA 09 for Dream Fighter PV.

What’s next? Disco! Disco! Disco!
Those who’re lucky enough to go to Tokyo will enjoy Perfume’s new 2-days live at Yoyogi Stadium on May 9 and 10, latest news says that stage side seats had been added. It was also announced that WOWOW will broadcast the show, so we’ll watch it sooner or later regardless a DVD comes out or not.

DETAILS:

[OPEN/START]
2009, May 09 (Saturday) OPEN 17:00, START 18:00
2009, May 10 (Sunday) OPEN 16:00, START 17:00
Ticket ¥5,250 (tax in)
Ticket on sale: April 11
Play Guide: Pia, Lawson Ticket, e-plus
Enquiry: Hot Staff Promotion, 03-5720-9999
AMUSE　http://www.amuse.co.jp/perfume/news/
TOKUMA　http://www.tkma.co.jp/tjc/j_pop/perfume/schedule.html

Hello. I’m a 29 year old married man. I don’t have any children.

It’s not like I’m really big into music, but I download and listen to a lot of different kinds of music. It doesn’t matter if it is Western or Japanese and I enjoy music from any genre.

The other day, a friend of mine recommended I give perfume a listen, but although it was music that was fairly off my particular radar, I gave them a listen and really liked it. The music videos are also quite spectacular, so I really started to get into them and started to buy DVDs on Yahoo! Auctions and collect all the CDs I could.

When I recommended them to my wife, she quietly listened and said “This is some interesting music, huh?” But then, one day, I asked her over dinner, “Who is your favorite out of the three perfume girls?” She responded angrily, 『殺すぞ』 (korosu zo, “I’ll kill you.”)

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