KORG Hi-Kara Personal Karaoke KCP-10 (1989)
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- A look at a portable Karaoke player from 1989 Japan.
Even if you don't entertain Karaoke or it doesn’t entertain you, the chip tunes this device produces may still win you over.
Chapters
00:00 Intro
01:06 The bundle
02:21 The Hi-Kara
03:57 The cards
06:17 The display
07:49 Finally some music
08:37 Mixed language demo
10:24 Sounds like Sega
11:16 Changing Pitch & Speed
12:28 A look inside
13:33 Summary
17:10 Doing it My Way
18:46 Credits
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Thumbs up for being brave enough to sing
@@nettils5555 9:10 :)
guess you missed his classic "we're up all night to get lucky" moment
Brave enough? Why wouldn't he, who cares?
@@patavinity1262 I would care. Singing in front of audience, especially possibly millions on your channel, isnt easy. Even tho it is not a "live situation", it doesnt mean it is easy for everyone. Might be easy for you, brave boy.
I was wondering if he would. And I guessed he would. I also suspected he can't. But definitely kudos for doing so anyway for the sake of demonstrating the device.
New ringtone “blah blah blah blah Passion Fruit”
This goes way way back to 1931 Gershwin song... :)
🎶 I studied all the rhymes that all the lovers sing Then just for you I wrote this little thing (...)
Blah blah blah your hair. Blah blah blah your eyes. Blah blah blah blah care. Blah blah blah blah skies.
Tra la la la tra la la la la cottage for two. Blah blah blah blah blah darling with you! 🎶
And I thought it's just us italians who listens and sings along to old cartoons/anime intros.
Haha. I was just gonna comment the same thing, then saw you'd beat me to it.
capping it RIGHT NOW... might put some scratches in there before I save it hahaha
Made me laugh, thank you
2015: "So, Mr Techmoan, where do you see yourself in five years?"
2020: sings karaoke to 1.03M people....
Anybody who said pandemic and lock down is lying.
is this from that album "Cretins on Parade"? kevin greenan...
dhamma58 I think it’s the theme tune to 2020.
@@weedwacker1716 I miss the puppets. We don't see them much anymore aside from some cameos. I know he's said it's fairly time consuming to film their segments.
@@alextirrellRI I was disappointed they weren't in this one, even as a cameo.
At last, the long-awaited follow-up to Mat’s stirring performance of “We’re up all night to get lucky.” 😎
😂
It literally haunts me. Every time I hear the song I sing the techmoan off key version. I think it's better than the original at this point. Or at least more enjoyable.
As a dude who hates Patreon to the bottom of my heart, he needs to make a perk where you can request him to sing a song with that MIDI boombox.
He needs to fill in for daft punk
Yes lol
In Philly we have plenty of those guys walking around without the karaoke machine.
As a Philly resident, can confirm.
Of course you watch Techmoan
I'm one of those people, and its the absolute best part of living here (besides the food and adequate transit system).
Fran Blanche ah...the old Center City favorite... “Is it Bluetooth, illegal drugs, or a lack of medication?”
Philadelphia freedom 🎵🎵🎶🎵🎶
“CAT’S EYE” (Techmoan Mix)
LYRICS
Blah blah blah blah blah blah
Passion fruit
Blah blah blah blah blah blah
Every night
Blap bap bap bap pop pop
Passion beat
Beep beep beebleblobbleblobble
Fall in love
Ba ba ba ba Cat’s Eye
Magic play is dance-dancing
Blah blah blah blah blah
See the problem?
Dit de do do Cat’s Eye
Magic play is dancing
Dit de do do di-de-dit doot doooooo
We get youuuuuuu!
Mysterious girl
(Spoken:) Ok I think that’s enough, you get the idea!
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Instant classic
Please sing along with Techmoan, but THIS instead:
Machi wa kirameku
passion fruit
Winku (wink) shiteru
every night
Gurasu (glass) no naka no
passion beat
Hitokuchi dake de
fall in love
Amai merodi (melody) kaze ni noreba konya
himitsu no ita tobira ga doko ka de aku yo
Mitsumeru Cat's Eye
Magic play is dancing
midori-iro ni hikaru
Ayashiku Cat's Eye
Magic play is dancing
tsuki-akari abite
We get you... you...you... you...
mysterious girl
Someone needs to make a separate video with that part only...
it's magic play is dance-dancing
what the blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Techmoan's Debut Album "Doing It My Way" featuring smash hits *We're up all night to get lucky* and *Blah blah blah Passion Fruit*
Techmoan sang Cat's Eye, my life is now complete
15:04 I Can't Stop the Loneliness, also by Anri
I can confirm from personal experience that CAT'S EYE (and another song you played, DESIRE) are still very popular songs at karaoke bars in Japan, 30 years on
I can confirm it too
Cat's Eye is amazingggg
Huh, I didn't realise it was a karaoke classic, I know it from falling into a DDR vortex on CZcams.
Desire I also recognized right away (as in, I knew I've heard it somewhere before).
Akina Nakamori is the one who sings DESIRE
Last time he sang, we learned he “stayed up all night to get lucky” now we know it was on a Japanese auction site to buy a karaoke machine that stops you hearing other people...
The Lion So he actually got lucky, then.
Mat's up all night to get some
Given "Burning love", I think we can assume the next track will be "went down the doctors to get some antibiotics".
AKA ‘Go see the doctor’ by Kool Moe Dee.
Of course it was "My Way."
And sung in perfectly appalling manner. Much appreciated.
You misspelled appealing.
You misspelled "My Way". "Mai Wei" is the song title,
...says the KORG HI-KARA on its display :)
Now Mat can never go to The Philippines.
Matt's beard makes him look like he would star singing "In the Air Tonight" at any moment but we got "bla bla bla, passion fruit" instead
"Blah blah blah blah Sussudio"
Beard?
@@josephbennett4236 lol. Yep, beard. Stupid autocorrect
Man, I wish I had had this when I was in Japan. I arrived there in 1993 and I can't believe nobody told me about this. I'm sure it was crazy expensive (considering the cards were ¥7,800 each!). Nobody would have been using this on the bus or train. That would just not be the done thing. The purpose would be to allow one to practice in private so you could learn some songs and develop your skills. Karaoke was a huge thing when I was there. All kinds of "voluntary" work outings for drinks and karaoke and such. Now, Japanese have a wonderful approach to karaoke, they believe that ability should be no barrier to participation. If someone really sings well, they are praised for it, but if someone does not, they are praised for their wonderful spirit and effort. But, I'm sure nobody wanted to actually be bad at it, so practicing in private might help you to impress a boss or a client. Or maybe a lady (or whatever else you might like to impress).
The cool thing about this is that lousy screen. Because it is so basic, it can't display kanji (kanji are the really complicated characters you see in Japanese writing). Kanji convey meaning and they have a pronunciation but there is no clue as to how to pronounce them contained in the character. You can't "sound them out". You just have to memorize the 2,000 or so kanji needed for literacy and just learn the different ways they are pronounced (did I mention their pronunciation changes depending on how they are used or what other characters they are paired with?).
At normal karaoke, they have subtitles on the TV screen that displays the words you are supposed to sing. Usually those lyrics have a bunch of kanji in them. Which meant I could not sing them because my knowledge of kanji was limited. But Japan also has two phonetic writing systems, hiragana and katakana. Each character has a sound associated with it, so you can sound them all out, just as when learning a new word in English (it's even better than English because there are not silent letters or other foolishness).
The Korg displays katakana for all the songs you showed because the screen isn't good enough to display kanji. If I had had one, I could have used it at home to learn popular Japanese songs phonetically and performed them when I went out with colleagues. I would have also picked up some kanji too, I'll bet, because the lyric sheet probably contains the actual kanji.
Japan in the early 90's must have been a fascinating place to see.
It still is, but right before the bubble burst it must have been super cool.
Funny that when scrolling, my comment about how the screen only shows katakana is right above yours for some reason, 5h before mine.
Furigana is the one thing that has taught me most of the kanji I know, and it thankfully is viable nowadays on high resolution screens. Been gaming on Japanese for a while and it sure helps a lot to learn.
@@zanizone3617 1993 was actually just after the bubble had burst. About 1.5 to 2 years. So things were slowed down and not as go-go-go as before, but the economy was still strong. It was a grand time. I was out in the prefectures, not in a big city, though. I have a lot of fond memories.
@@Kalvinjj Yeah, furigana is great, when you can find them. A few places did have furigana on the kanji during karaoke. That's how I learned Ue o muite arukou, which was my single Japanese karaoke song. But it's the best because every single Japanese loves it. czcams.com/video/C35DrtPlUbc/video.html
But for sure, furigana and flash cards (made them myself...can you tell how old I am :) ) were the only way to go.
"from another portable karaoke machine i bought"
of course you did.
I'VE ONLY GONE AND BOUGHT ANOTHER
A truly admirable butchering of Anri's CAT'S EYE, I will admit that this was probably the last thing I would ever expect Techmoan to cover
fun fact, the track as it appears on the record was a different version than the one that appears in the show, but it's Anri's vocals on both.
Isn't Cat's Eye that anime about 3 sisters who are cat burglars try to avoid the police or something? I could be wrong but I think it is. I'm not really an anime person generally.
@@ryandevan2793yes, this year there was a crossover movie between Cat's Eye and Lupin III
As a fan of Anri, I appreciated your effort on "Cat's Eye"
Yeah, I listened that song too in recently, through Timely! album
Yes!! Good to see people out here featuring Anri in their vids
Nice to see that at least someone is a worse karaoke singer than I am.
Yes...what kind of a nutter would bring a karaoke machine on a public bus with only ONE microphone? What, he thinks he's going to sing "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" and do the Elton John AND the Kiki Dee parts?
I couldn't if i tried...
That's how you recognize a real psychopath =o
Badger Boy Baby your not that kind...
People enjoy solo karaoke in Japan.
So, am i the only one who use to listen to a walkman in the 90's on the train for 45 mins and not silently ( or not so silently sing along) - you tend to realize when your silent sing-a-long is being heard by others, i leant to humm and whisper the tunes :)
Regards
George
Life’s simple pleasures: Saturday morning, strong coffee or a cuppa, and a new Techmoan video. Thanks for helping me keep my 2020 sanity.
Life’s simple pleasure: Techmoan singing karaoke.
Wonder if you could turn the music on Techmoan’s end credits into a chip tune or remix it. Perhaps 8 bit guy could play it on Keyboard or Commodore in 8 bits.
🤔Wonder if 8 bit chip tune music🎵 became more popular, if it would take a byte out of the Music Industry, instead of the Music Industry taking a bite out of home audio recording equipment.
Portable karaoke machine🎤 might be good for circuit bending, accept I am torn between creating art and music and creativity and the need I feel is important to protect technology from past and keep them working as an historical artefact. I think 🤔 💭Techmoan channel is an important historical look back and at present technology and hope Techmoan channel last on long into the future on what ever platform Internet or device the future may bring.
Forget the experiments burning The Superman Movie onto Holographic Storage on to Glass they should be burning Techmoans videos on to Glass to preserve them or show in Technology Museums of the Future, perhaps in Future Techmoan or Techmoans of Future could make a video about the old and obsolete Holographic Storage.
This rendition of "My Way", though raw and heartfelt, doesn't quite capture the poignant yet sweet emotion of the original Sid Vicious version.
12 September 2020: The day that Techmoan won CZcams.
Lots of Anri and Akina featured here...
8:10 Kanashii Kimochi - Kuwata Keisuke czcams.com/video/G2PrtPpwMl0/video.html
8:37 Blahblahblah Cat’s Eye - Anri czcams.com/video/xOihMx9qeTw/video.html
10:25 Kita Wing - Nakamori Akina czcams.com/video/aicM-nc6vJs/video.html
10:40 SHOW ME - Morikawa Yukari czcams.com/video/XUmRr4oAHV0/video.html
10:55 DESIRE - Nakamori Akina czcams.com/video/tLVOcZF1l0g/video.html
11:15 Nesshisen - Anzen Chitai czcams.com/video/fj7h3UZmuVs/video.html
15:00 Akai Sweet Pea - Matsuda Seiko czcams.com/video/tiS7WF8Wga8/video.html
15:05 Kanashimi ga Tomaranai - Anri czcams.com/video/7Fy6xgpl7ZY/video.html
15:10 Gypsy Queen - Nakamori Akina czcams.com/video/d6qu-j-sNg4/video.html
THANK YOU! I knew a few of these but not some of the others.
Techmoan: Let's take a look at this obscure japanese personal karaoke machine from 1989 with the MIDI versions of songs from God knows where.
CZcams: Ah, yes. That's a content match.
"In the beginning, there was light..."
**angry corporate screeching**
ContentID: I'm on it.
Rather obscure, but the song Techmoan plays named Desire is covered in Rosario + Vampire, as well as Cat's Eye by Anri which was an early example of using a J-pop song as an anime opening. To us it's obscure but these songs are probably really big in Japan among that generation. Not to mention now we're all discovering city pop
@@SeedSnatcher Anti is freaking amazing. Timely!! Is such a great album. Love almost every track on it.
Apparently Japanese copyright law doesn't recognise a fair-use doctrine.
Also Techmoan: Does a karaoke version of "My Way" all the way through.
CZcams: *shrugs* I have no clue what this guy is singing about.
This has given us more fun listening to you singing, than this device was ever designed to accomplish. Well done. What a good sport. 😎
If CZcams manages to content match that rendition of "My Way", we should all bow down to the robotic overlords.
"My Way" was alternate lyrics to a french song called "Comme D'Habitude", the artist Claude Francois shows on the LCD.
But the LCD shows the title as マイ・ウェイ which is My Way written in Katakana. So it's a bit of a mix.
English title, French artist, Japanese version lyrics
I'm Japanese, but I often watch Techmoan videos (I like CHIPS aka フライドホテト). At that time, Japanese karaoke in a one-person style was rare, and in the past it became a karaoke using 8 tracks, later a laser disc, and a telephone line. They were karaoke that multiple people enjoyed. The style of enjoying karaoke alone has been popular in Japan for several years, and now there is a karaoke room for one person. Smartphone karaoke apps are also widespread. This is very close to the way of singing like this video. (You may know Smule etc.)
I loved Noribang when I was in Korea. 100 won per song. And no one has to hear how bad my singing is lol.
I assume that the personal karaoke system was mainly used to practice at home so you are ready to perform in public.
Thanks for the Cat's Eye Opening Karaoke, I was crying with laughter
As an avid listener to 80s Japanese city pop, I recognize those songs and I want this.
My Japanese wife was singing along with these - including Japanese and English lyrics - but she was in the kitchen and not looking at the CZcams screen! Too much karaoke in her youth, I guess!
thats awesome
I feel like some day in the future, Techmoan would finally start learning Japanese as the devices get harder and harder to operate without knowing how to read Japanese.
At least learn the kana, that should only take a day or two
@@guspolly Man, it took me way longer than a day or two to read those characters without a reference and I still read them at the speed of a 5 year old haha
@@guspolly yes I think he could get that quite fast, especially how often he's confronted with them! But it might take a week or two to get it somewhere fluently I guess.
dwindeyer didn’t know it was that hard to learn kana
@@Eduardo-nx3do it's like learning the alphabet from a to z, can take some time but it's quite easy and doable in days
My BF had a Korg keyboard that he was kind enough to share with me. I must say, we have spent many happy hours playing with his Korg together. It even had a microphone attached, and I can attest that the introduction of an oral element whilst playing on my BF's Korg has enhanced the experience greatly for both of us. When it comes to fun, pleasure and happy times I can definitely say that my BF's Korg has given me a great deal of satisfaction!
“Introduction of oral element while playing on my BFs Korg” lmao sorry this is so funny out of context
Didn't think your beautiful rendition of 'Get lucky' could be topped, but this was just stunning !
I'll say it again. 80s/90s Japan had positively the most amazing stuff. Everything we have now is so much more boring even if infinitely more useful.
Usefulness usually equates to pretty boring things. We need some more companies that Mae you go "why would you want this?!" to spice things up 😂
Computers sadly have devoured it all, now you can do it all cheaper in software there’s less of a reason to make all these things that clearly needed a load of engineering and electrical design knowledge. I still like physical stuff, it’s just so much more satisfying...
I have to agree somewhat, but most of these weird gadgets were replaced with an app on your phone. I’m still amazed by apps like SoundHound that can listen to a song and determine the title, usually even obscure Japanese songs.
There's a reason why cyberpunk fiction like Blade Runner usually showed Japan being the dominant economic power in the near future. In the 80s it seemed like Japan was destined to take over the world with tech.
So far no one has mentioned a type of card this thing uses it looks very much like The Bee Card.
Or a take-off on it which indeed was used on at least one game system and other things as well that's about this closest as I can think of that card I've seen anywhere.
At first I thought this would think this would have used PC card or something similar pcmia I believe is what I'm thinking of.
They had those as read-only memory cards.
Also remember seeing cards like that both those times for things like fancy embroidery machines and stuff as well.
Once saw a what looked like a jewel box for a CD except it was for a embroidery machine or something open it up as a PC card not a CD I thought it was kind of strange that someone like that would have a CD it doesn't course it was something that would plug into a computer which was possibility but the memory card makes more sense.
I remember once had used a GPS that used that type of memory card I borrowed it for something rather can't remember why.
Those cards look exactly the same as the PCM Expansion Cards for the Korg M1 Synthesizer released in 1988. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was the same file structure and format. I had a few of those cards myself and they were very pricey. I think they were about £100 a card. They had extra samples and patch data so you could expand the sounds on the M1. These days you can get the whole lot in Korg’s M1 plugin version.
Send them to the chap if you can still find them in a chest or mezzanine or something.
Stranger Happened Sadly I sold mine along with my M1 about 4 years ago. I miss it, but it’s much more convenient to have all the sounds in VST plugin format. I think he’s already said he doesn’t want things sent to him as they will just end up in the bin. I’m not sure if they’d be any use without at least the M1r rack version to access them on.
I was about to post a photo of my M1 Orchestra card! But you can't post photos. Bah!
@@paulwesterman sony-erixon card -
M2?
monopoly?
Looks like 7800 YEN was about 60 USD in 88.
the reverb did me in! you always brighten my day with your wit and knowledge. thanks for sharing your electronics with us. it's a lot of fun!
Thank you for playing Cat's Eye! Seriously one of my favorite shows of all time!
From the time you first read the title you had my attention. You seriously made my day!
same like me. had a locked on target view from me. i listened to rock musics from the late 80's and 90's (x japan, lunasea, dead end) and i am scanning the titles to see if i knew them. luckily cat's eye showed up as i watched the anime and the city hunter anime which had a connection to cat's eye anime.
The ending has been the funniest thing i've ever seen made by Techmoan, even beating the terrible acting of the "Mission Impossible" video lol!
oh I don't know, the Mission Impossible acting definitely tops my chart!
That definitely escalated quickly...
@@MelvinPao 9:36 🤣
Can’t beat some techmoan karaoke on a Saturday morning. Sounds a bit like “I’m sorry I haven’t a clue” one song to the tune of another 🤪
I've been listening to ISIHAC as I go to bed each night recently...perhaps Mr Techmoan is related to Jeremy Hardy 😂 (RIP Jeremy :( )
Great video!
@@Boopop1024 Jeremy, bless him, always managed to perform one song to the tune of no other.
And Tim :(
"one song to the tune of another"? I don't get the concept. Can you explain?
Looking forward to a new CZcams Poop featuring Techmoan sending the 8-Bit guy more brilliant karaoke 😉
15:06 I would recognize Anri's "I can't stop the loneliness" anywhere.
Thanks for doing it your way👏Always great to watch.
Wow, congrats on 1 million subs! Amazing accomplishment!! I've been watching you for years and recently you've really grown fast along with LGR and a few others. Hopefully we can cross paths on a future vid and collab on some material. Either way, keep up the great work and we'll keep watching!
im happy with the subs too. techmoan seems like a really nice guy and cool to hang out with. and we both like alot of similar old tech. and over the last year. anytime im watching and my GF is home. she wants me to put video on tv so she can watch too.
BigDWiz!!!!
Wasnt expecting you here in the comments bigdwiz
BigD is a fan !? That's it, we need to see some VU meters and tape decks bench tested on your channel
james shockley yeah boi! Love me some Techmoan!! I watch every vid and like just need to remember to comment. Mat does fantastic content 👌
Random tangent: A lot of Japanese pop and rock in the '80s did that thing you were talking about at circa 15:00, where the riff sounds like something well-known in the West and then the song goes off in a different direction. I have no evidence to back this hypothesis up, but I suspect some producers were trying to pad radio airplay by making the beginnings of songs sound like big Western hits, so that people trawling around the radio dial wouldn't tune away from the station right away when they started. One of the most striking examples I can remember is one of the songs that were used in the OVA series _Bubblegum Crisis,_ which sounds uncannily like "Don't Cry" by Asia for the first 20 seconds, and then not at all like it for the rest of the track. The intro completely doesn't fit with the song. Nowadays we'd think it was some weird DJ mash-up. :)
also a lot of Japanese artists just recorded Stock Aitken Waterman songs in japanese.
There are plenty of examples for this. My guess is that it was easier to get away with it back then because the Japanese and the Western music markets were still fairly isolated from each other, aside from the bigger hits. Good one that comes to mind is "Bernard Wright - Who Do You Love" and "Kikuchi Momoko - Good Friend".
You can use Bubblegum Crisis as an example of a more direct example. Konya wa Hurricane is very directly Going Nowhere Fast as done by the Japanese. The movie Streets of Fire, where the song is from, left an impact on the 1980s Japanese pop-culture for whatever reason and you can see it being referenced in designs, music and even in style in some places.
Have to say you're likely wrong about the motivation: Western music is not and has never been as popular in Japan as its local pop and rock music. This is why Japanese acts re-recorded things like SAW tunes in Japanese -- the songs would not have become as popular if they were just released as-is sung by Western acts. The motivation was probably more like the composer liking those tunes and wanting to use them, and also that they could get away with it.
For example, the idol duo Wink recorded Kylie Minogue's "Turn It Into Love" and had a huge hit (Oricon no. 5 in 1989), AFTER which Kylie's original version also became a singles hit in Japan. Not the other way around.
In B movies one can sometimes hear a familliar pop/rock tune where the chord progressions have been slightly altered to avoid copyright claims. That annoys me to no end...
Looking through the Vol. 7 track listing, it's no surprise that Akina Nakamori (中森 明菜) and The Checkers (チェッカーズ) have the lion's share of the cartridge, as they were two of the biggest names in J-pop at the time.
God this reminds me so much of those old Anime "shrine" websites when I was growing up that were full of MIDI files for anime songs. I used to listen to them all the time!
I'm getting *We're up all night to get lucky* flashbacks
I had forgotten about that
@Lassi Kinnunen I don't know about you, but I don't really like flossing my teeth.
OH YEAHHHHH, TECHMOAN IS SINGING !!!! ಥ‿ಥ
I love this channel, a real breath of old fresh air.
The YM3411 is indeed a Yamaha "surround sound processor" so it's the reverb chip. The Korg chip is probably a very simplistic General MIDI ROMpler chip.
Ironically, the "deluxe edition" microphone looks suspiciously like a rebranded Shure PG58.
There are many microphones that look similar :D but i've got a suspicion that this is a rebranded Audio-Technica microphone of the era.
I love when you take the time to cover old weird tech from the past.
So every single video he does?
@@PlittHD Yes!
@@PlittHD Sometimes it's weird tech from the present, like the Gixie clocks.
Copied and pasted from video description:
If you want to hear the original ‘Cat’s Eye’ theme, here’s a link: czcams.com/video/qcqQIt-dF-E/video.html
A scan of the index on the back of Cards 1-9 can be viewed here: ibb.co/hYTJ2rS
Purrrr meow purrrr mysterious 😸😸😸
Pretty much every single by Akina Nakamori and Seiko Matsuda shows up across various volumes. I'm not super familiar with all the artists but the selection looks to be a few years out of date for the time because there doesn't seem to be anything from Chisato Moritaka who was far more relevant in 1989 than the previously mentioned artists.
all these years following your channel to reach the absolute peak: your amazing version of "My Way"! I can die in peace now :)
I've just pre-ordered "Best of Techmoan" on K-Tel for Christmas. :-)
*Casey Kasem likes this*
I might actually buy that.
I think it's quite interesting how in order to get the Japanese text on such a display they spelled everything in katakana. Probably because hiragana isn't 'blocky' enough, and displaying kanji on such a display would be impossible.
Also quite interesting that, even with such a limited character set of the HD44780 displays, they *still* managed to cram more information on the display in katakana than in English. Distinguishing some of the characters must have been literal pixel-hunting.
I was thinking the same thing
Katakana is how technology displayed japanese for a long time. I think it is also because writing in only hiragana looks like you don't now the right kanji but using only katakana looks phonetic for arcane cultural reasons.
It's because the HD44780 controller uses an 8-bit charset and only came in a version with ASCII and (halfwidth) katakana at most. You can't really fit both hiragana and katakana together with ASCII in 256 characters. There was another ROM option that substituted European and some math characters instead of katakana, which is what you usually get in electronics shops in the EU when you buy an HD44780 (or clone) display.
This was common back in that time in Japan; electronic gizmos almost exclusively used katakana for screens like this. Even today you see them now and then.
(offtopic) @Maya Posch Ik las net je interview op Tweakers en vervolgens zie ik jouw comment hier.... hoe zot toevallig is dat!
It’s quite amazing that the content matching algorithm is able to pickup a midi version of a 80s Japanese song. At the same time its disappointing that this amazing tech is used to filch money from creators. Cool vid!
I recorded my own cover version of I Am Australian outdoors on a basic PA, as the final song in a 45-minute set; as soon as I put it on CZcams it managed to content-match. Very uncanny how it recognised the melody.
Since MIDI has pure clear notes it may in fact be easier for the algorithm to recognise than a cover made on real instruments.
Also, no, content match is what prevents creators from getting DMCA’s sent each time they use content they don’t have a license for. If you have issue with that, bring it up to lawmakers and implementation of copyright.
Erm, the people who created the content that's being matched were creators too. Although I do acknowledge the irony in the case of some of the more soundalike content here.
I guess that'd be the very reason Matt's singing "My way" off tune.
@M1 A1 What stops you from using something like LBRY, DailyMotion, Vimeo, or hosting videos on your own website? Last time I checked, CZcams wasn't the only website to upload videos on.
This is the best video of this channel by far. I loved it!
The chuckles during the singing broke me hahahaha
'Cat's Eye' is fine and all, but I was really hoping for a stunning rendition of 'Baka Mitai'.
Same
Or Renai Circulation
9:10 that's "cat's eye" by anri. absolutely one of my favorite j-pop songs of all time. the 1983 album from which this track comes has another karaoke classic "i cant stop the loneliness".
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And if Im correct the beginning of "I Can't Stop the Loneliness" can be heard at 15:04
Beard is looking good mate
You’re a true hero for singing at the end without a puppet
One of your best yet. :-D
BTW, I really enjoyed Cat's Eye anime on Italian TV when I was a kid. I was very happy to hear it here, and it was very fun to hear you trying to sing it. Thank you very much! :-D
Frank Sinatras lost son from the UK has emerged!
Hannes Wohlfarth sporting an epic beard, no less!
Never thought I'd see Techmoan singing an Anri song
Of the 700 channels I'm subscribed to this is my favorite, such a great vibe and a person you really want to succeed
I love the fact that your Patreon supporters are so supportive! Helping along in figuring out new things you wouldn't have known on your own
Karaoke works best after a couple of drinks. It will "improve" your singing qualities too 😂
Yes, true, the singing gets worse, but so does our hearing or memory the next day of how good ( or bad ) it really was.
These days with smart phones and small movie clips you can play back how horrible some one was at the office party or dinner
Regards
George
i live in asia . you see the liquor is a required accessory when using karaoke .
More like degrade the tonal sensitivity of the listeners lol
"Unless you are familiar with pre 1989 Japanese Music"
Me: I see Anri!
and Anzen Chitai!
I immediately saw Anri too
There are some special days like your birthday, your country independent day. but for Me, watching and listening TechMoan sing is one of special ones.
I'm crying at the ending! Superb edutainment Matt!
15:05 That sounds like the opening theme for "Boys Over Flowers" omg I didn't expect to hear it in a techmoan video of all things haha
18:46 Techmoan has left the building
I was hoping for a mic drop :(
You have never made a video that deserved a like more than this one. Great job I really appreciate your dedication to your user base!!
Big (Japanese-literate) Shouwa-era pop fan here - I can identify any songs in that you want.
Very good attempt at Cat's Eye, imo! Love the chiptune-esque quality of this device. 80s video game soundtracks (especially those from Sega) ended up being my gateway for getting into Japanese "city pop" from the same time period once I realized how similar they were in instrumentation and melody.
I presume "Cat's Eye" is the theme song from the anime of the same name, about female art thieves (who are really just stealing back what was their father's to begin with)?
Are you also into Future Funk music? If you didn't know, it's mostly city pop songs chopped up with added bass and percussion to make funky electronic music. It's great to listen to while working.
@@SteveBrandon it's by anri, seems like the anime uses a different version of it czcams.com/video/MdkVcVsPrPo/video.html
@@mizuna1129 Yeah, songs obviously need to be trimmed down to fit into 1:30 TV size and sometimes they even do things like tempo changes to parts of the song (i.e. the intro to "Dancing Star" from URUSEI YATSURA where they upped the tempo for the TV version compared to the single).
Me; “It’s too low. Change the pitch!”
Mat: “That’s too slow. OK, Max speed.”
That escalated quickly. 🤣🤣🤣
Man I love your channel! Thanks for the amazing song at the end. :)
Thanks for making my day. What a talent!
Holy shit my mom had one of these, when i was young i would always listen to nakamori akina's Desire
I've been showing the anime Cat's Eye to my son. He loves it, and watching along with him I discovered the original musics as the intro and outro themes were localised for French TV in my youth and I had never heard the originals before. I hasten to add that the French themes were great in their own rights, but the Japanese ones are bloody brilliant ! No wonder they were turned into Karaoke titles back then.
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Tant de malice, que la police, jamais ne les découvrira...
absolutely glorious!! congratulations!!
Your lighting, framing, and quality is truly tops!
Amazed to see so many Akina Nakamori's titles. The copyright just to reproduce those hits of the 80s on the card ain't gonna be cheap.
Inflation calculator suggests one card would cost around $85 today. Still somewhat expensive.
Me: I want to get Akina Nakamori's "Desire" single.
Mom: We have Desire at home.
Desire at home:
Of course, you know Paul Anka adapted that tune from the french "Comme d'habitude" (which is why you see François on the LCD)
Another top production from your good self. This is another great reason to support this channel.Where else could i get contnet like this - nowhere ( I mean that in a nice way) totally unexpected fun at the end. 😅😅
This has got to be one of the most awesome Techmoan videos I've ever watched! 😁
I suppose that, as Japan seems to have quite a few karaoke bars, I presume this was a product aimed at helping people practice for those
Hearing Techmoan singing the Cat's Eye anime theme song, absolutely worth this video! :D
Love it. Glad I stayed to the end. You made my day!
I actually remember Cat's Eye. When I was in Japan in 1990 some buddies and I used to go to a karaoke bar. And those words still stick with me 30 years later.
The problem is obviously that you forgot to drink alcohol!
holy shit Anri's "Cat's Eye" is one of my fav songs
Thoroughly entertaining, as always, thanks for being there :-).
Your singing at the end (along with the side comments) is precisely what I can point at to explain why I’m a patron.
I can imagine you with the headset on, singing "this is ground control to major Tom". Alternatively, you could be singing "they're coming to take me away". That would be shortly before they came to take you away.
omg now i cant get this picture out of my head :o
"Eaaarth beeelooow us, drifting faaaling..." :D:D
@@Rolly369 "Your circuit's dead, there's something wrong...can you hear me major Tom?" :-)
Wow you’re going to put me out of business 🎶 🎤
@@djlarspeterson7099 :-)
Imagine going in bus with personal karaoke, and while you hear mostly music, person next to you heard terrible singing
With the modern invention of 3G/4G/5G wireless connectivity to the internet, a pair of earbuds and the magic of CZcams. You can relive the days of some out of tune twat singing on the bus with a modern twist.
Actually, I'm going to get one of these for the full experience.
Imagine singing Imagine on the bus!
Usually too lazy to go out of fullscreen and thumbs up but that outro was gold. You really did it your way
This video made me even more of a fan!
🎶 Dutududutudu we get you mysterious girl 🎶😂
Thank you Techmoan coz i’m not gonna be able to get that out of my mind and hum it all weekend.
Love the graphic design of those song catalogs, I wish ルージュの伝言 is in there. This machine looks like so much fun honestly.
Congrats on the 1M subs.
Another fascinating video! I love these international devices, giving a peek into what was going on in other parts of the world!