D?jin music (????, doujin ongaku), also called otokei d?jin (????) in Japan, is a sub-category of d?jin activity. D?jin are basically non-official self-published Japanese works which can be based on official products or completely original creations. Such products are sold online on specialized sites, on the author's own sites and in conventions such as the very popular Comic Markets.
Video D?jin music
Genres
D?jin music isn't a musical genre in itself but is indicative of a particular means of publication. (Similarly the term "indie" in the United States is used in this way.)
D?jin music consists very often of video game music fan arrangements. Much original D?jin music also exists, and has been created both for d?jin games and independently, spanning many musical genres such as pop, rock, techno, trance and many more.
By nature, d?jin music is often self-produced, at low cost, by independent artists. Home-studio software is typically advantageous to d?jin music composers, as it is cheaper than studio mastering live instruments. As such, most D?jin music has a distinct synthetic quality to it. It is common to have one live instrument (such as a guitar) backed up by synthetic orchestrations, though full instrumentation is becoming more and more common in d?jin music, such as orchestral works or d?jin jazz.
Maps D?jin music
Organization
D?jin music artists can be solo or band projects. It is very common for members of different groups to collaborate on an album. Some projects, such as Woodsoft, are collaborations of several artists contributing to a given theme for each of their album releases.
Each member of a group usually have their individual site on which they release their personal works free to download and possibly give updates about their involvement in upcoming albums. Some artists actually never release albums and keep their artistic activity to this free-for-all form. The most productive groups usually release 2 albums a year which are released in summer and winter editions of the Comic Markets conventions and sold for an average of 1000 yen for full length ones. The most involved and popular artists are usually featured on their own group albums but also make guest appearance on other groups' CDs.
Aside from the Comic Market, events held in Japan for d?jin music include the biannual "M3" and the "Hakurei Shrine Reitaisai" (including music derived from Touhou Project).
Notable d?jin music artists
- Sound Horizon
- Akiko Shikata a soprano singer, composer, arranger, producer and multi-instrumentalist whose songs tend a lot towards experimentalism.
- Team Shanghai Alice, creator of the Touhou Project, is also very famous for the music for the games.
- IOSYS, a well-known d?jin group most commonly recognized for their Touhou arrangements.
- CROW'SCLAW, a popular neoclassical/power metal instrumental d?jin band who is best known for its arrangements of music from the Touhou and Final Fantasy series of games. Lately they have started to sound heavier, influenced by Metalcore and Melodic Death Metal.
- Iron Attack, known also as Iron Chino is one of the most popular neoclassical/power metal/shred artists on the d?uijn scene, he does mostly arranges of Touhou Music, but lately he has started to co-work with d?ujin circles known for their original music like Lightning and Dragon Guardian.
- COOL&CREATE, another well-known Touhou music group, well known by the YouTube community for their U.N. Owen was her? remix
- HARDCORE TANO*C and ALiCE'S EMOTiON, two circles organised by REDALiCE focused on electronic dance music, but predominantly Hardcore amongst others. ALiCE'S EMOTiON is focused on anime and game arranges, mostly focusing on REDALiCE's work while HARDCORE TANO*C features a wider range of artists and focuses on original compositions.
- Allkore
- Annabel, who has worked on several anime productions and is famous for works in partnership with musicians like Nagi Yanagi and bermei.inazawa.
- Kishida Ky?dan & THE AKEBOSHI ROCKETS
- Masayoshi Minoshima
- REDALiCE
- Chata
- Yuuhei Satellite
- Rekka Katakiri
- Haruka Shimotsuki
- Junka Amaoto
- Michika Kataoka
- Sou Raika
- Imperial Circus Dead Decadence
- Alice Ichitsuki
- Unchiku Company
- Demetori
- EastNewSound
- Luschka
- Fukami Chie
- Yuyoyuppe
- Hige Driver
- Misawa Aki
- Saitama Saisyu Heiki
- Team Nekokan
- Thousand Leaves
- Unlucky Morpheus
- Arte Refact
- Foreground Eclipse
- Barrage Am Ring
- Magnum Opus
- Silently Shooting Traitors
- Halozy
- Diverse System
- Undead Corporation
- Release Hallucination
D?jin lyrics
Sometimes, people may rewrite the lyrics of an existing anime song to create a d?jin song, or insert lyrics into an originally instrumental anime track. These type of d?jin songs are called "d?jin lyrics" (???, d?jinshi). Many d?jin lyrics are written in Japanese, Chinese, and Korean. Moreover, you can find "fandub" of different languages of an ACG song, Game song or Vocaloid song, like English fandub, French Fandub, Spanish fandub, etc. All of these are D?jin lyrics of different languages.
See also
- D?jin
- D?jin soft
- D?jinshi
- Denpa song
- Vocaloid
- Video game music
- Self publishing
- Independent music
References
Source of article : Wikipedia
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