That last bit where you’re singing in the car by yourself is the saddest thing I’ve ever seen. BRILLIANT!!!
@moosemaimer2 жыл бұрын
Should've brought the puppets.
@kodinamsinh12672 жыл бұрын
that's where i hope to see myself in the future. alone in my car sitting there and singing karaoke.
@davelordy2 жыл бұрын
It's haunting, like a sad wasp stuck inside a coke can on a hot day, aware of the rising afternoon sun and the coming heat, but lacking the evolutionary apparatus to escape.
@shardlake2 жыл бұрын
I was hoping for puppets at that point :)
@g.m.24272 жыл бұрын
@@kodinamsinh1267 It's always helpful to set yourself achievable goals
@divzero_again2 жыл бұрын
18:55 For the curious, the chips are: HG62E11: probably a relabeled Hitachi OTP gate array for glue logic YMW258-F: a Yamaha OPL4 with the FM synth removed, originally designed for Sega YGV606B: the video display processor, normally found in TVs and VCRs YM3413: delay/reverb, found in a lot of Yamaha effects processors PCM69AP: your common-or-garden DAC H8/510, H8/520: Hitachi H8 16bit microcontrollers YM7128B: a surround sound processor, as found on the AdLib Gold. Thing's basically a Portasound with echo and a video card.
@metatechnologist2 жыл бұрын
"Hey, we have these piles of chips left around, what can we do with them??"
@JendaLinda2 жыл бұрын
The LCD screen is most likely based on HD44780.
@sonic2000gr2 жыл бұрын
The moment I saw it, "portasound" came to mind. It makes sense for Yamaha to make such a machine based on essentially their synth tech and mid files.
@IslayAnderson2 жыл бұрын
I knew I recognised that beautiful fm synthesis Could be a really interesting option for circuit bending Love the opl4 sound and master systems are getting a little pricy now for attaching scratchy pots and jabbing hot irons into
@nufe2 жыл бұрын
No wonder it sounds like the music from Sonic The Hedgehog!
@Giranukuma2 жыл бұрын
For Japanese middle age old man, this song line-ups is very nostalgic. I remembered when I was young student. I didn't know about this device, but I think this is what 80-90s Japanese used to develop. Nice video as always.
@standishgeezer2 жыл бұрын
At least with you singing along there's no chance of a content match 😂
@chaos.corner2 жыл бұрын
Maybe to the video where Photoinduction throws a breeze block into a running washing machine.
@datadavis2 жыл бұрын
Hopefully we can encourage techmoanto do this with all music in the future?🥲
@standishgeezer2 жыл бұрын
@@chaos.corner 😅
@auxnull Жыл бұрын
⚠ WARNING ⚠ BURN HAZARD
@maxjohn92412 жыл бұрын
As a Japanese, I always enjoy techmoan wondering about these Japan domestic models and karaoke things :)
@ddegn2 жыл бұрын
Does everyone in Japan know enough English to read the labels on these devices?
@USSMariner2 жыл бұрын
@@ddegn it's more of a tradition thing (as Japan's introduction to electronics was through English-speaking countries, iirc) with a pinch of "It's just easier to use English for the button labels than trying to fit hiragana or katakana in the same spaces". Basically, a lot of people just associate the words the same way you'd associate the play/pause symbol, though some Japanese do at least know what "Purae" is
@tabajaralabs2 жыл бұрын
max, introduce him to sega saturn karaoke :D
@Lucien862 жыл бұрын
Some Japanese people seem to use a mixture of both. You will get a wall of Japanese text with the odd English word just scattered about in there. Also its a phonetic language so you can get stuff written in English letters which is Japanese but you can also get actual English written in Japanese letters. Very confusing. (Just in the very earliest stages of trying to learn Japanese - don't know if I'll ever succeed.)
@planetX152 жыл бұрын
@@Lucien86 It's a beautiful language, good luck with it!
@jamtea5732 жыл бұрын
In the catalogue listing of all the cassette cartridges, the last ones labeled "英語曲リクエストBOX" are all English language songs! Might be worth picking up a couple of they're available?! (Cartridge numbers HKS-W01 to 04)
@enemdisk66282 жыл бұрын
He needs to see this! Upvote!
@frozendude7072 жыл бұрын
Sad thing if he gets them is that they might all content match on KZbin, so he might not even be able to share them with us. 🙁
@2760ade2 жыл бұрын
@@frozendude707 Or even worse, he might sing along to them!!😮😂😂
@Kitsunelanie Жыл бұрын
@@frozendude707 I doubt the copyright bots are tuned to MIDI covers!
@caseyholford2 жыл бұрын
Definitely one of my favorite startup sequences I’ve heard. It’s more postmodern sound collage than jingle.
@brokenscart79892 жыл бұрын
There’s a weird juxtaposition between the ‘hi fi’ sound and the ‘lo fi’ screen
@mfaizsyahmi2 жыл бұрын
They have a full on synthesizer in them, so they ought to flex them.
@taofanarchy96-renzomaracas142 жыл бұрын
2:03
@OldSkoolUncleChris2 жыл бұрын
It sounds like a Games Console
@winterwatson68112 жыл бұрын
immediately made me think: gamecube!
@Jamato-sUn2 жыл бұрын
I loved that it has a proper GUI when connected to the TV!
@shojiyoshioka20262 жыл бұрын
I look forward to this video every week, in which he explains in detail every time a Japanese gadget that even Japanese people don't know about.
@rakseiify2 жыл бұрын
This thing is a treasure of the early 90s in Japan!, it has some jewels like: - Won't be long: by the Bubblegum Brothers, this was No.1 on Japanese lists in 1991 or so. If you gotta sing 90s hits you can't forget this song. - Zero by B'z , another huge No. 1. In fact there's a lot from B'z like: Runaway of Solitude, track 1 from MARS the same album that had Lady Navigation. They're like the...Wham!? Extreme? AC/DC? Guns And Roses? of their time. - A lot form Chage&Aska, like: "with this eyes I lie to you" from the album "Tree". This was a peculiar duo of guys that gave shape to some part of the sound of the 90s in Japan. - A freaking lot from "Tube", like the song numbered 001 in the first tape: "ah! summer break!", there was a time in terms of music in Japan when if you said summer that meant Tube. -And some of Mariya Takeuchi, the same lady singing the famous "Plastic Love". Well you can sing along other hits like ''Tomorrow's me" from the 1994 compilation album "Impressions" and the third column after the name of the artists are the first words of the lyrics of each song.
@zpxlng2 жыл бұрын
Karaoke and bingo are both staples of work/company parties in Japan (particularly the end-of-year party), so there's a 'natural' association between the two. (Of course the culture is always changing, but year-end party + karaoke + bingo is a modern tradition that everyone here is aware of.)
@LWolf122 жыл бұрын
I've always heard the Japanese loved karaoke, I didn't know Bingo was a big staple though.
@jabelsjabels2 жыл бұрын
As a fan of XJapan, I died the moment you started that up! What a fantastic MIDI rendition
@GeneralBison2 жыл бұрын
🙅🏾♂
@alfonsoesaugutierrezalejan29632 жыл бұрын
oh damn, just listen the full song, i like it!!!!
@SkiBumMSP2 жыл бұрын
Never thought I'd hear X Japan on a Techmoan video, even if it was just a Karaoke MIDI rendition! 🤘 Along those same lines, I actually did get to see Galneryus at ProgPower USA in Atlanta in 2019.
@otakuribo2 жыл бұрын
a MIDI rendition of Rusty Nail by X Japan? That's a very different and unexpected type of nostalgia than what i usually get from Techmoan videos.
@brennyn2 жыл бұрын
The MIDI of Rusty Nail would be right at home on my "music to play Doom II by" playlist.
@robertcurrie99772 жыл бұрын
The Yahaha handheld has a real early-90s Apple Powerbook aesthetic to it. If Apple had made a portable music player in 1993 that *wasn't* the Apple Power CD, it might have looked a lot like this.
@davidshepherd2652 жыл бұрын
To be honest I was thinking the same thing!
@nufe2 жыл бұрын
1:20 - My brother lived in Japan and he said that a lot of products were sold in limited quantities through certain stores to test how the products worked for consumers. It was a testing ground for new technology. He had bought a Panasonic portable CD player that was one of the thinnest on the market at the time, but it had an issue where if the CD was too long (74mins+) the mechanism was so tightly packed that it would actually start to scratch the CD when it got to the outer edges. It was discontinued quite quickly after that issue was discovered.
@BLY992 жыл бұрын
This is true, they would just put together machines with surplus components in order to get rid of them and to try to keep open certain component lines they needed for other products.
@meechmushrooms2 жыл бұрын
Ah yes, a brand-new Techmoan video at 5 in the morning. Just what I needed. ❤
@shagnastyfo202 жыл бұрын
I thought almost the same thing
@simonjohn72592 жыл бұрын
The music on these are actually MIDI files played by an internal OPL synthesiser. It is based on the mid-90's Yamaha PSR entry/mid-level keyboard series (I remember the PSR-x20 in particular) which had Music Cartridge System ports on them and the PSR-620 even had a floppy drive! You could get cartridges for these in the UK, but the number of tracks on western cartridges were often as little as 6 and as many as 15. There is very little information online regarding this format, as it was only used on 7 or 8 Yamaha keyboards before floppy disk and later USB took over as the storage for the later model keyboards. The format was called "Yamaha Music Cartridge System". Some of the cartridges didn't contain songs, but additional style data for the keyboard.
@dh20322 жыл бұрын
no techmoan like yet?, could the midi be simply accessed to say turn it into midi box's like the one' popular with retro PC gaming for class like doom and such,?
@simonjohn72592 жыл бұрын
@@dh2032 It has no external MIDI interface and the Yamaha Cartridge Format was proprietary. If you were determined, and knew enough, you could probably patch into the OPL4 chip directly, but what would be the point? The Adlib and Soundblaster synthesis expected by Doom used the older OPL2/3 chips and the by this point so many wavetable synthesis cards were available for the PC, you would almost definitely have one of those available.
@stevenclark21882 жыл бұрын
If this is FM based it's got to be some very well tuned patches for later hardware with more operators than ye olde OPL2. Almost sounds like some of their XG hardware in some places. edit: OPL4 makes sense
@Schule042 жыл бұрын
The synth in this is pretty similar to the TG100, and is basically an OPL4 without the FM synth. It's sample based only. Marketing back then called these types of synths "wavetable" even though it's not that. Musicians derided these as "ROMplers" because they can only produce a fixed set of sounds, but that's also not really accurate since you could modify many parameters of the synth engine. It#s a shame Yamaha didn't put a MIDI port on these karaoke machines, but I guess they did it because that would have cut into their cartridge market
@joshm77692 жыл бұрын
@@stevenclark2188 it sounds like the Advanced Wave Memory keyboards Yamaha made. They're not FM based.
@mfaizsyahmi2 жыл бұрын
The ANRI one was a treat. The quintessential City Pop song. Thank you random stranger for suggesting that one to Matt; you have a good eye and a good taste! And how I wish I could get my hands of the midi file(s) directly off that/ose cartridges.
@mattb1542 жыл бұрын
Whoever did the MIDI arrangement on that one knew their craft. For all that General MIDI synths can sound toy-like when fed bare sheet music, most can turn in a surprisingly decent performance given effort. This was a good example of that.
@boardsort2 жыл бұрын
Seems to me the car scene at the end was a missed opportunity for the puppets. :) Good show as usual.
@levonja2 жыл бұрын
*Techmoan historic karaoke performances:* 8:03 LALALA ZINGE VLINDERS 12:16 BAN BAN BAN (Wearin' So Many Wears) 20:08 Turn It Into Love
@damnfuckingusername2 жыл бұрын
The "ZINGE VLINDERS" looked Dutch to me. 😁
@OriginalRitz2 жыл бұрын
Zinge vlinders has me in stitches!
@jurjenbos2282 жыл бұрын
@@damnfuckingusername Yes, that's definitely Dutch. "zingen kleine vlinders" means "sing little butterflies" (whatever they mean with that).
@gabrielv.43582 жыл бұрын
LOL yes the Single zinge Vlinders had me laughing loud
@destrozar2 жыл бұрын
Techmoan - The only man in Britain with two Yamaha Handy Karaoke machines.
@jamespaddick2442 жыл бұрын
As a huge Kylie Minogue fan, I literally had tears streaming down my face with the rendition of Turn It Into Love! I do think a call to Stock Aitken Waterman is the next step Mat. After all, they made a pop star out of Mandy Smith…😂
@thesteelrodent17962 жыл бұрын
calling Mandy Smith a pop star is a bit of an exaggeration. Sure they made her sing pop, but don't think anyone's ever credited her as a star, at least not in relation to pop
@kevinh962 жыл бұрын
@Pixie Pete You have to give little miss Minogue some credit to be fair, she's been around longer than many, many other pop stars and is still producing albums that chart. She has sung pop, country, indie/rock and had some pretty decent duets over the years so I think she doesn't get the credit she deserves sometimes.
@jamespaddick2442 жыл бұрын
@Pixie Pete What a shame…because pleasing you is what I live for 🙄
@Elesthor2 жыл бұрын
11:55 the penguin rushing to get out of screen before the song starts is hilarious.
@djnekroman2 жыл бұрын
I guess my new favorite genre of music is "90's Japanese karaoke midi covers".
@RicoElectrico2 жыл бұрын
10:53 the advantage of using TV out is that lyrics are displayed in normal format, including furigana explanations on top of rare kanji. The character LCD probably compatible with Hitachi HD44780 controller only displays katakana.
@CalumRaasay2 жыл бұрын
That last section in the car had me in stitches. Techmoan album drop when?
@CrobinHood8BitGuy2 жыл бұрын
There’s already one full song lol, it’s by 8-bit guy ytp productions, it’s the get lucky song, but he sings parts of it
@MegaEmmanuel092 жыл бұрын
The radio in our '66 Coronet lets you choose between different countries' radio ranges (e.g. USA, RUS, JPN), so I just imagine me flicking through the settings and hearing your GLORIOUS karaoke pop up
@moserfugger63632 жыл бұрын
Mr. Techmoan is not only a tech guru, bot also a comedy genius. Fascinating! :) Greetings from Germany
@Code7Unltd2 жыл бұрын
Well, when the tech isn't being the comedian anyway. Remember that black Amazon boombox that had an inconsistent casette speed?
@moserfugger63632 жыл бұрын
@@Code7Unltd Yeah, I remember! 😅 Nearly bought one of those a few years ago. But then I decided for a much more expensive boombox from Panasonic. I'm still happy with that decision. Techmoan's videos were reassuring me that I was lucky to get that boombox back then. Now it isn't even available anymore or you'll get only for a much higher price. So Techmoan is at least three things in one: tech guru, comedic genius and money saver! 😍 Greetings from Germany
@herosstratos2 жыл бұрын
He had a cameo on the Big Car channel.
@mrtobiastaylor862 жыл бұрын
The start up jingle reminded me off the start of the Itchy and Scratch theme tune - identical xylophone
@mazochungo2 жыл бұрын
That "Zingen Vlinders" thing at 8:04 is the opening tune to a popular Japanese cartoon from the 70s named "A Dog of Flanders", based on the British novel with the same title. When it aired here in Spain for the first time on our public television, the episodes used to include that song (in Japanese).
@belstar11282 жыл бұрын
That was supposed to be Dutch it means singing butterflies but they messed it up it should be zingende vlinders.
@theharbingerofconflation2 жыл бұрын
damn this thing has super interesting voices, the things musicians could do with this
@Gainn2 жыл бұрын
The Yamaha QY70/QY100 are probably the closest yammy gear that's easily available. They do use a different chip, but a lot of the sounds are very similar.
@pseudotasuki2 жыл бұрын
Gotta love Yamaha synthesizers.
@sampofilms2 жыл бұрын
I was just thinking how powerful this little device is for mid-90s tech.
@neiltonks2 жыл бұрын
When you went to the car for the last scene, I can't be the only one who hoped that the puppets would make an appearance.
@ottot32212 жыл бұрын
Was expecting a perfect sung Japanese song, and we do get a perfect rendition of the Dutch song Kleine Vlinders (never heard of it). The production value of this video goes just above and beyond. Silliness aside, love the video and thank you for making me laugh.
@ZZCopter2 жыл бұрын
Love it, how you have taken all your friends with you in the car for karaoke. Looks like we have friends in common 😀
@davidshepherd2652 жыл бұрын
When you said you were going to sing in the car with your friends I thought to myself, "He's got the puppets strapped into the seats, I know it", was slightly disappointed that wasn't the case lol
@SomePeopleCallMeWulfman2 жыл бұрын
@12:15 Those English lyrics are pure gold! Also great interpretation of a real "classic".
@guessundheit64942 жыл бұрын
Anime fans of the 1990s who were online will remember MIDI-karaoke. There were software players and MIDI files with lyrics, singing along to anime theme songs. We had those along with our KISS dolls and software. Fun times.
@easycompzeelandold25212 жыл бұрын
8:08 TECHMOAN! YOU SANG IN DUTCH! Zingen Vlinders means, singing butterfly's and kleine vlinders means, little butterfly's. So not all songs are Japanese, i guess that this device came to the eu as well then or maybe was planned.
@Techmoan2 жыл бұрын
Just a couple of lines in an otherwise Japanese song.
@wmkm71442 жыл бұрын
I was curious about this as well. So I looked it up. Apparently it's the main opening theme song of a Japanese animation called the 'A Dog of Flanders'.
@easycompzeelandold25212 жыл бұрын
@@Techmoan Oh really? But why is that... Now I wonder..
@tommink83792 жыл бұрын
It's absolutely believable that people would believe that singing in the car would be great considering the exceptional engineering that went into making the car cabin a good acoustic space with only two or at most four speakers
@tommink83792 жыл бұрын
That's a problem given that the acoustics were mostly meant to exclude outside noise, but not at all to help sound from within the car outside the speakers
@nimoy0072 жыл бұрын
"At most"... Actually, there are many cars with more than 4. Not sure which cars have only 2, unless you actually are referring to the number of *channels*.
@caramelldansen22042 жыл бұрын
@@nimoy007 Sorry we can't all afford a Mercedes 😭
@crookedtool2 жыл бұрын
@@caramelldansen2204 No one gives a flying rat's ass about your financial status. Just about any car that has more than the standard stereo option is going to have four to six speakers. For your level of car knowledge, you can just call them all Mercedes.
@crookedtool2 жыл бұрын
@@nimoy007 I was surprised to learn that my 95 Civic only came with two speakers standard in the doors.
@Bumphuk2 жыл бұрын
I thought for a second you was going to have all the puppets in the car with you.
@JimmyLem2 жыл бұрын
That’s gold, Jerry! GOLD!
@ltmcolen2 жыл бұрын
Your singing is amazing, I was almost rolling on the floor laughing! I don't care for karaoke at all but you make boring stuff interesting.
@katelights2 жыл бұрын
singing in the car I was expecting you to do a take in every seat of the car and splice them together
@Techmoan2 жыл бұрын
That would require some basic skill…
@shiva_MMIV2 жыл бұрын
Ah, the classic sound of Yamaha 90's MIDI xD
@otakuribo2 жыл бұрын
a MIDI rendition of Rusty Nail by X Japan? That's a very different and unexpected type of nostalgia than what i usually get from Techmoan videos.
@peterduyts44432 жыл бұрын
That song at 8:05 is in dutch. zingen = singing vlinders=butterflies and kleine=little... so the song goes "Little butterflies are singing lalala lalala" :) I wonder what market this was meant for, cos I can't imagine Japanese customers understand dutch. ps: the singing at 20:20 voids the warranty of my speakers :p
@bobbymiller72422 жыл бұрын
🎶 On the first day of Christmas, my senpai gave to me a cartridge of karaoke! 🎶
@LenweSaralonde2 жыл бұрын
It would be awesome to have a dump of the MIDI files on the cartridge, these songs sound like bangers!
@RahanPlays2 жыл бұрын
I wasn’t expecting to hear an X-Japan song in my Techmoan videos, but here we are. The original is an absolute banger, btw.
@moshingsafely2 жыл бұрын
Super fun video! And Rusty Nail is such a good song! This vid makes me want more X Japan chiptune adaptations
@jordy_3d2 жыл бұрын
Linda Linda is actually a somewhat common song to see covered or sung along to, I've noticed. It was used as one of the "Character Songs" for the main characters in the Durarara!! anime series. I imagine at least one or two more of those Character Songs were also released on the ING'S. Linda Linda itself appears in a number of places too, including covered by American rock artist Andrew W.K
@jordy_3d2 жыл бұрын
Continued watching, and at 18:07 Gakuen Tengoku (学園天国) is also shown on-screen, which is another song from the Durarara!! Character Songs.
@zappi2 жыл бұрын
there's also a quite good Japanese film from 2005 called Linda Linda Linda about a school band practising the song for their school festival, starring Korean actress Doona Bae of The Host/Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance/Cloud Atlas fame.
@jordy_3d2 жыл бұрын
It really feels like you could come across Linda Linda almost anywhere related to Japanese media and entertainment
@kFY5142 жыл бұрын
@@zappi The film's final concert scene was also an inspiration for the concert scene in the famous 2006 anime The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. I've long been a Haruhi fan, and I actually discovered The Blue Hearts by backtracking on those references.
@fullnuclearbreakfast2 жыл бұрын
There's a cover of it in Rolling Girls too, and the OP and ED are also covers of Blue Hearts songs. Whoever made that show really seemed to like The Blue Hearts. Unfortunately it's not very good.
@RobertHarrisonBlake2 жыл бұрын
The song at 8:00 is the theme from the 1975 anime TV series adaptation of "A Dog of Flanders" (フランダースの犬 / Furandāsu no Inu). The "BAN BAN BAN" song at 12:30 is by the Kuwata Band (or the Southern All Stars?) from 1986. The Santa Claus song at about 16:00 is "Scatterbrained Santa Claus," (あわてんぼうのサンタクロース / Awatenbou no Santakuroosu) a children's Christmas song with some onomatopoeias in it. It's apparently from or by NHK, the Japanese public TV station. Wild industrial design of the handheld version, and I was very surprised to see the quality of the built-in video output and animations. Seems like Yamaha put a lot of effort into these, and they cost a small fortune when brand new - Thanks for sharing them!
@BuzzinsPetRock782 жыл бұрын
Ahh....that's why, I was wondering why I saw Dutch in there.... I know the Japanese love their German for things, but Dutch surprised me :)
@Zeem42 жыл бұрын
@@BuzzinsPetRock78 Same here! I've been teaching myself Dutch for a while, and was surprised and confused by the reference to small butterflies.
@FiXato2 жыл бұрын
Thanks! I was confused by the Dutch for a moment. xD
@linalmeemow2 жыл бұрын
Yes, my daughter has just confirmed the Santa Claus song has broadly the same content as "When Santa Got Stuck Up the Chimney", and is known by pretty much everyone in Japan!
@SharewareWizard2 жыл бұрын
that BAN BAN BAN song is really good, I went and listened to the kuwata band version and it's gonna be stuck in my head for a while.
@ian_b2 жыл бұрын
The chip p0rn is much appreciated by us hardware nuts. A thoughtful inclusion, Techmoan, thank you.
@bountyjedi2 жыл бұрын
It's so cute how the display is just all katakana and ro-maji. Probably because that's about what you can fit in an 8bit encoding of text, but perhaps more importantly what that sort of display can show while still being readable. EDIT: I see it can actually display full fledged Japanese text (including furigana/ruby text) in the TV mode, so definitely probably just a case of making it readable on that little display.
@nemo2e42 жыл бұрын
The multiline LCD modules had a very limited character set, so if you got hiragana as well as katakana you could count yourself lucky. Some modules featured 8 programmable character cells, so that’s how the “animation” was done - the character codes on the screen don’t change, the definition of the character shapes do.
@123nendra2 жыл бұрын
Everytime you're exploring the cartridge, I was just hoping that one of the 80s essentials City Pop song would appear... and then you played Can't Stop the Loneliness by Anri at 18:12 made my day XD, one of my favorite City Pop music! Please give us the song list for that cartridge :)))
@poofygoof2 жыл бұрын
I'm sure there's got to be a trove of citypop on there. If Anri is there, there's got to be some Tatsuro Yamashita, Chisato Moritaka, Toshiki Kadomatsu, ...
@darkcoeficient2 жыл бұрын
I was so excited to see Techmoan's friends in the car!!
@8bitwiz_2 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately the puppets were on strike that day, demanding higher wages or more stuffing or something.
@revidual2 жыл бұрын
I work for Mike Stock, I'm sure he will be impressed with your version when I play it at the studio on Monday.
@DeeViningUK2 жыл бұрын
19:00 - Turn It Into Love was also sung by Hazell Dean - part of the SAW Hit Factory. Useless pop fact for the pub quiz there, Mat! I shall hang my head in shame now 😂
@melvoid012 жыл бұрын
I was just happy to see and hear a mention of X-Japan, possibly the biggest rock band in Japan ever and still going now (r.i.p. hide).
@starkickermusic21002 жыл бұрын
Oh this is awesome! Another installment of Matt sings the Classics! Featuring shots of his on the road tour! Bravo! Encore!
@matthewlibanio82272 жыл бұрын
I was dying with laughter at the end. My favorite way to wake up in the morning every Saturday is to Techmoan! What a hilarious machine!!!
@mickeyBtsv2 жыл бұрын
Mat, I want to go to karaoke with you! You're the epitome of amateur karaoke... Every time I go to a karaoke night, "semi professionals" sing. You never hear the like of yourself anymore give karaoke a crack, which is why I love karaoke, to hear amateurs sing and get out of their comfort zone and give something a go
@AzrialAlaria2 жыл бұрын
76.5 on your FM dial. Ridge City FM The City Is Yours!
@jub88912 жыл бұрын
i love how Japan made these dedicated machines just for singing
@mesicek72 жыл бұрын
I mean they literally invented Karaoke
@jub88912 жыл бұрын
@@mesicek7 of course.. what i mean is so few other countries tried to do anything similar, considering singing to backing tracks is a universal form of entertainment.. there were multiplex/minus 1 cassetes in the philippines and 'magic mics' were also popular in SE asian countries..
@castorchua2 жыл бұрын
There are Karaoke machines on Korean trains if I remember correctly
@CADClicker2 жыл бұрын
@@cmdraftbrn Karaoke is and has been massive in Japan
@marcinagy64682 жыл бұрын
The "Rusty nails" version here sounded even funnier than I expected. When it comes to X Japan I usually think of thundering drums, screaming, high pitched vocals and shrieking guitars, but here it sounds like an exceptionally busy pawnshop in an SNES Zelda clone (that said, it sounds as good as it possibly can on this device).
@cyph3r762 жыл бұрын
Japans culture is so different to ours 😄 Great little machine though. Sounds like midi audio to me, very good midi though.
@speeder32352 жыл бұрын
of course it would be midi, otherwise it wouldn't be able to change the key or tempo of the song it's got a nice soundbank though
@aspectcarl2 жыл бұрын
Oh boy [YTP] Terrible Person and 8 Bit guy [YTP] Productions are gonna have a field day with this video 😂
@HKT-43002 жыл бұрын
This makes me sing along to songs i've never even heard before, never thought out of all the stuff i've seen on your channel over the years this would be the thing i'd 100% want to get one of.
@Dixieddawg2 жыл бұрын
The ‘singing’ @8:05 finished me 🤣
@one1bonus2 жыл бұрын
76.3MHz in the UK is allocated to the Ministry Of Defence. We can only live in hope that Matt didn’t accidentally sing the Nuclear Launch Codes at them… 💥
@taofanarchy96-renzomaracas147 ай бұрын
What is worse: this or summoning demons when "singing" Japanese songs?
@spyczechАй бұрын
I assume you put "sing" in quotation marks to refer to the video style of singing right? Why would you assume japanese music would summon demons kind of a weird joke. Westerners also believe in demons but not gonna make that joke see what I mean
@DARKCLOUDXERO2 жыл бұрын
Techmoan and Anri? Hell yeah, always love it when my interests intersect. A bit sad we couldn't hear the full song. The song at 19:45 sounds like Wink, a singing duo. The song is "Turn it Into Love". You singing it was awesome. Aside from the knowledge and looking at old tech, this is why I love this channel.
@lincolncwynar15472 жыл бұрын
Always enjoy your uploads my friend. Thank you, keep them coming.👍👍
@Sampler192 жыл бұрын
Why didn't you join the karaoke session, though?
@SharewareWizard2 жыл бұрын
went and searched for that BAN BAN BAN song and now it's gonna be stuck in my head. it's pretty good!
@timakimat2 жыл бұрын
Totally expected Big Car to be singing along in the end.
@russb38162 жыл бұрын
Thank you for making me smile at the end.
@ColdClock2 жыл бұрын
"Would bingo be popular?" Oh god yes! Japanese people love a bit of bingo.
@VictorCowo2 жыл бұрын
Aaaah man I love "I can't stop the loneliness" i have that playing on work radio and also you should have gotten out the puppets for the ending
@tdata5452 жыл бұрын
I am a bit of a nerd and love me some anime, and my favorite part is when they sing in English. RARELY does it make sense, but there's a 50/50 chance you kind of get what they're going for. I don't know if sometimes it's a Japanese idiom that doesn't translate well into English, or what. BUT it's fun.
@kaitlyn__L2 жыл бұрын
Sometimes there’s an attempt to translate into English, but a lot of the time the lyrics chosen are purely for aesthetics and syllabic pattern. Especially when it’s just an exclamation of one or two English words in a Japanese sentence (though it also happens with German in some songs), the point is exoticism, aesthetics, and trendiness; though usually some effort is also made to pick a word that fits with the themes of the song. When you get one or two entire lines in English, that’s usually when they try to fit grammar into the lyric. Otherwise it’s just simple affirmations for flavour, like BELIEVE! or DON’T STOP!
@tdata5452 жыл бұрын
@@kaitlyn__L INTERESTING, huh. I wonder if there are English songs that do that... I'd have to look into Kero Kero Bonito more, but... I'm pretty sure that singer is PROPER Japanese and BRITISH, and is fluent in both, so... she probably is more conscious of what she's saying. The one song that came to mind just now was "That's Amore", and there is a line in that that can be accused of doing just that with the "PIZZA PIE" line, being redundant since Pizza means Pie in italian.
@belstar11282 жыл бұрын
That is my least favourite part.
@kellydavis31082 жыл бұрын
Real Joy Division / New Order vibes from your musical performance
@bobby6666662 жыл бұрын
This was so much fun, especially the bit at the end.
@NaturallySceptical2 жыл бұрын
It’s a Golden Button from me!
@LenweSaralonde2 жыл бұрын
The "Game" button should be renamed into "power metal"
@rafchris Жыл бұрын
You're lucky the police weren't called looking for the hose pipe on the exhaust. You have got to love a Techmoan karaoke session!!!!
@aloysiussnailchaser2722 жыл бұрын
As someone who grew up in Ireland I was expecting Big Tom to start warbling at 16:12. How amazing that Country & Irish made it to Japan! There’s a KZbin channel dedicated to him. Have a listen, if you’re not squeamish, and you’ll see what I mean.
@hifi-lofi2 жыл бұрын
With “melody assist” on, it sounds identical to a lot of muzak currently played (loudly) in many Japanese supermarkets. How the staff endure that all day long is testament to Japanese stoicism.
@JohnnyX502 жыл бұрын
The sound and look of the cartridges sparks a memory i have of an old Yamaha PSR keyboard I had with a cartridge system that had 5 popular songs on them per cartridge. I remember a friend of mine used to like singing along to One Moment in Time where I liked Your Song by Elton John on it. It was most certainly all GM MIDI data on the carts but they were very well written and sounded very good despite most Yamaha keyboards all having the same sounds and instruments on them. The carts came with a book that had the musical score and the words in so I am guessing that keyboard was not just a teaching aid but also a crude karaoke machine
@gmirwin2 жыл бұрын
I found one of those in a thrift store once. I didn't buy it, but I wondered about the cartridge slot.
@gullevek2 жыл бұрын
Smoke Filled Karaoke rooms around 4am in the morning. That's all that comes to my mind when I hear that :D
@TranscendentalAirwaves2 жыл бұрын
Impressive sound! It sounds a lot like the Yamaha XG Sound Cards that were available for computers in the late 90's. Love the way 90's electronics looked, I've got a Magnavox alarm clock with a cassette player that has this same exact design language.
@bigboss972 жыл бұрын
Love MIDI karaoke (KAR) because you can change key and tempo without distorting the audio. You can also mute and unmute the leading melody because each music instrument can be stored on separrate track.
@jane74122 жыл бұрын
Keep up the great work Techmoan! :)
@gordonmacqueen86942 жыл бұрын
Laughing so hard that I'm crying at the end. Bravo! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
@damionlee76582 жыл бұрын
"With all my friends out in the car..." - Ooof, that hit a bit close to home 😭 All that was missing from that ending was the super-imposed rain on the camera.
@Shilorius2 жыл бұрын
I was kind of expecting, that he has the Moanies in the car with him ;-)
@damionlee76582 жыл бұрын
@@Shilorius on the presumption the Moanies are the puppets, that's where I was expecting the skit to go as well. Perhaps the issue where KZbin immediately make videos that have them in as being "For kids" is still an issue. It's almost like nobody at KZbin has heard of puppet shows like Spitting Image.
@8bitwiz_2 жыл бұрын
With that video processing, I'm not sure that anything could have auto-detected the puppets as puppets, or as something "for kids".
@zigzag81112 жыл бұрын
Your singing made me smile, just what I needed after a busy day at work btw. My singing would need loads of echo too 🎤🎶
@Ghozer2 жыл бұрын
The 'Only You' is likely the, "The Platters" version, was very popular in Karaoke! They also seem to be MIDI reproductions of tracks, hence being able to 'mute' the tune track, and change speed/key etc...
@dashcamandy22422 жыл бұрын
6:24 - "We're up all night to get lucky... We're up all night to get lucky..." 😆
@Lunchpacked1802 жыл бұрын
This seems like the perfect thing for retirement homes.. you got bingo and karaoke, just need som liqueur
@Gadgetonomy2 жыл бұрын
Thank god there was no one else in the car park!
@ericsills64842 жыл бұрын
Love the tempo buttons. Mat's gonna sing; let's hurry this up 😆
@alexriesenbeck2 жыл бұрын
Thanks much for popping it open and giving us closeups of the chips!
@NoshAbroad2 жыл бұрын
Would love to see some scans of the track listings.
@Techmoan2 жыл бұрын
It’s now included over on the Patreon post.
@GeneralBison2 жыл бұрын
It was amazing seeing X Japan come up in one of your videos! As you can probably tell I'm a big fan