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>>21541675
The band is Guernica, and singer is Jun Togawa.
By the way I hate to post bad news, but Pierre Taki from Denki Grove just got sentenced to 1 year and a half in prison (with a suspended 3 year sentence) just for having inhaled a small amount of cocaine a few months ago.

>>17394188
>I don't know, I feel as if when they didn't know how to play any instruments, so they just dressed up and did silly things was part of the charm of Zin-Say, now that they're actually trying to make music, it just doesn't feel right.
Well, I think Pierre Taki doesn't even classify himself as a musician, although I think some songs are credited as being composed by him (obviously with Takkyu's help), and he is a lyricist, and sings, so he is a musician, but he considers himself a performer, or a "Hype man". I remember reading that Pierre was actually a Zin-Say fan at first, and one day just jumped into the stage and started doing silly dances, probably wearing his Doraemon costume, and then he became an official member right after. Obaba and Gurison Kimu actually composed some songs on Zin-Say, but it was mainly all Takkyu, all programmed in sequencers, 303 and 808s. Takkyu started doing covers of Depeche Mode and New Order ("Blue Monday" was the song that made him decide to make his own music) so he had an idea of how to make electronic music, on top of also having heard lots of YMO and Kraftwerk, but he decided to go for a more "nagomu" direction with Zin-Say, which was great, because it mixed techno pop and the usual nagomu eccentricities.
According to the booklet on Substance V, at first Zin-Say was a solo Takkyu unit and it was a noise act (would kill to hear any recording of that!), he eventually started recruiting more members until it was a troupe of weirdos, must have been nice to be there at the time and see Zin-Say evolve slowly into Denki Groove. The early DG days were pretty much Zin-Say without the make up and with more rap. Takkyu eventually started getting more and more into house/techno music production (especially german techno) and the sound changed a lot, but they still retain Zin-Say elements to this very day. Pierre still dresses in silly outfits and dances around the stage, and a lot of songs retain that wacky sense of humor. They still played some Zin-Say songs during the early DG days, like "Ore wa karada no kinniku wa...".
It's kind of amazing that the japanese techno god was once in a Nagomu band, he might be the most successful guy out of all the Nagomu bunch. Denki Groove and Takkyu were even popular in Europe, within the electronic music scene during the 90s. Takkyu performed in Love Parade several times.
Have you listened to Flash Papa? That's another early DG album I think you might enjoy. I can upload it if you don't have it.
As for the Kera event, it was this:
http://natalie.mu/music/news/98466
Kera's 50th bday and Nagomu's 30th anniversary. It was similar to the Kera Solo Hour, but with more guests. On the 2nd day there was "Denki Groove plays Zin-Say".
And no, sadly I didn't rip the video before it was taken down, I regret immensely. Hearing new takes on old classics was great. And the crowd was really excited too (it wasn't a big live house)