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K-Pop Rules The World: How South Korea Overtook Japan in Digital Music Choices

Post author:Sanjo-chan
Post published:December 16, 2019
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If you are into J-Pop, including K-Pop, then you may be wondering why you don’t see enough content outside of Japan of your favorite artists without having to go to great lengths to obtain the latest release. It might be due to a generational issue of complicated, and possibly financial, reasons. I was originally going to just Tweet about this, but this needs more than 280 characters. So I am going to just write about this in a form of a blog post. It’s about the reasons why K-Pop is as global as it is, with even a handful of male J-Pop bands embracing the style of K-Pop. And it all falls back to an interest in music from another country that is right across from South Korea.

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Weekly Stream Notes: Issue #4

Post author:Sanjo-chan
Post published:July 24, 2019
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Here is the fourth edition of the Weekly Stream Notes, where the news briefs are highlighted during the stream. This is a way to catch up on the latest in the world of Anime and Gaming, as well as what’s happening on the Centaku Media community. Since it’s been a couple of weeks since I’ve had a traditional stream notes posting, here is a catch-up on the weeks of 7/7 and 7/14.

As of writing, you can catch Centaku Media live on Twitch, Mixer, and YouTube on Sundays at 12 PM, and Tuesdays & Thursdays at 5 PM. All times are US Eastern. You can also watch the streams on the Livestreams page, which has the latest schedule updates!

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Music Spotlight: kemu – イカサマライフゲム (Ikasama Life Game)

Post author:Sanjo-chan
Post published:July 8, 2019
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The next Vocaloid Song of the Month is from kemu, which different from the previous post about love throughout one’s childhood. Instead, let’s imagine this song as a candidate for a new anime series involving notes and diaries with serious consequences.

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Music Spotlight: Kim Sarang – 무죄 (Innocence)

Post author:Sanjo-chan
Post published:July 1, 2019
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This week’s Music Spotlight highlights a song from Korean solo artist Kim Sarang. I discovered one of his songs over a decade ago, thanks to being a regular player of World of Warcraft. However, this song has no direct connection to WoW itself, but it was used in a fan made video of a fellow player of the Horde, an Undead Warlock rocking it out and killing everything in sight.

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Music Spotlight: Last Note – “オサナナブルー (Childhood Blues)”

Post author:Sanjo-chan
Post published:June 24, 2019
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As someone who is new-ish to the Vocaloid fandom, I would like to share my findings with those who are also curious of Vocaloid music, especially in 2019. For the first Vocaloid entry in the Music Spotlight series, here is an original song featuring Vocaloid GUMI by composer Last Note.

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Weekly Stream Notes: Issue #1

Post author:Sanjo-chan
Post published:June 23, 2019
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You’re reading the first edition of the Weekly Stream Notes, highlighting news and stream highlights every week during the livestreams on the Centaku Media channel on Twitch. The idea was inspired from the Weekly Minutes I wrote as Secretary in our local anime club, Scenic City Anime & More, and from the original blog series inspired from those minutes, The CEN.TAKU.ME Journal. With these minutes, it will help introduce Centaku Media to both readers and viewers, new and old, as well as helping myself in keeping up with the littlest things I said during a 3 hour broadcast.

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Interview: ST~Prime (Soultaku Sound)

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Post published:June 20, 2019
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This was originally published in late 2011. As of republication, the group ST~Prime now promotes under Soultaku Sound, and can be found on SoundCloud and Bandcamp!

It took a few months in the making, but we are pleased to publish our second and last interview from MTAC Goes to 11 with ST~Prime! Hailing from Memphis, TN, the Nerdcore Hip-Hop team has come many ways from The Band of Seven to ST~Prime; today, their story is told.

At MTAC, only Fox and MTrilogy were present at the convention, so we were unable to perform a live interview for the podcast. However, despite a few delays, I was able to interview ST~Prime together via mail!

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Korean Solo artist Kay-G (Image Source: Melon)

Music Spotlight: Kay-G – So Good

Post author:Sanjo-chan
Post published:June 17, 2019
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For this edition of Music Spotlight, here is an indie K-Pop artist that I came across a couple of years back during my personal hunts to fill my phone with a plethora of Korean Music. One of the songs I came across was by Kay-G (케이지), who previously released his debut track back in 2017.

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