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fripSide is a Japanese pop band. Started in 2002, fripSide is made up of two members, Yoshino Nanjo (vocal, lyrics) and sat, a.k.a. Satoshi Yaginuma (lyrics, synthesizers, composer, arrangement) Former vocalist nao graduated from fripSide March 2009. The name "fripSide" comes from the word "flipside." It's a direct reference to when one had to flip records to side B. Since Flipside was already taken by a foreign artist, Sat coined the word "fripSide." The capital S comes from Satoshi's name. fripSide had a very successful start on the indie community muzie. All three of their first albums topped their muzie's...

JAM Project ("JAM" standing for "Japan Animation songs Makers") is an anime music genre (or anison) "supergroup" based in Japan, originally founded on July 19, 2000 by famous 1970s theme song artist Ichiro Mizuki. The group is comprised of many vocal artists well known in the genre; aside from the many anime and video game theme songs that this group has performed together, each member is famous for his or her own solo performances of anime-related music. As a group, they are perhaps best known for their themes for the Super Robot Wars series of video games. The group has...

ALI PROJECT is a Japanese neoclassical duo with a strong Gothic Lolita image, consisting of Arika Takarano (宝野アリカ) - vocals & lyrics and Mikiya Katakura(片倉三起也) - music & arrangement. They made their debut in the charts back in 1988 as Ant Project (蟻プロジェクト Ari Purojekkuto) with their album Gensō Teien. The basis of the music of this album is powerful, multifaceted sound of electronic instruments in combination with complex piano parties and clean, clear female vocals. Selection of songs was also unusual, consisting of both original objects, and fragments of classical music, plus - traditional Japanese songs. Under mysterious name...

There is more than one artist with this name: 1) Inside were a collaboration between Psyche singer Darrin Huss and members of The Eternal Afflict. Starting in 1996 with a more romantic melancholy synth-sound of the Nineties to a power driving EBM with slightly horrorish lyrics, and some heavy guitars added to their industrial dance sound. After two albums, and a compilation Extremities (Ultimate Edition) they disbanded in 2003. 2) Inside were a mid-90's Long Island 5 piece formed from hardcore band Word Of Mouth, went on to spawn Blood Red, Babyteeth, Tinsnips, The Dearly Departed, The Movielife, Taking Back...