Min Wye Photography » Japanese http://minwye.com/blog The Dancing Asian Photographer Mon, 27 Sep 2010 07:29:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Song of the week: (Zouk) Dj Prospa – Asia Love http://minwye.com/blog/2009/03/03/song-of-the-week-zouk-dj-prospa-asia-love/ http://minwye.com/blog/2009/03/03/song-of-the-week-zouk-dj-prospa-asia-love/#comments Tue, 03 Mar 2009 03:42:10 +0000 Min Wye http://minwye.com/blog/?p=534 Since hearing the Japanese bachata song, I have developed an addiction to latin music sung in Japanese and Im constantly looking for more similar songs. Of course, its not easy to find such songs so I get really excited when I bump into one. This time, Claudia, a friend from Sydney, passed me the song after reading my blog post.

Claudia first heard the song being played in the clubs and took the effort to get the song from her teacher Lil Liz (who incidentally, was in town to celebrate her birthday! last weekend).

A zouk song by Dj Prospa and an unknown Japanese singer. I looked around for any leads on the girl singer but I had no luck.
 
Anyway!! Here it is,
DJ Prospa – Asia Love
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]]> http://minwye.com/blog/2009/03/03/song-of-the-week-zouk-dj-prospa-asia-love/feed/ 2 The Unknown Japanese Bachata Song http://minwye.com/blog/2009/02/13/the-unknown-japanese-bachata-song/ http://minwye.com/blog/2009/02/13/the-unknown-japanese-bachata-song/#comments Fri, 13 Feb 2009 07:01:09 +0000 Min Wye http://minwye.com/blog/?p=490 When I went back to Malaysia in July last year for the Malaysian Salsa Festival, I heard a Japanese Bachata song in one of the clubs. Having done most of my dancing in Australia, its quite unheard off to hear Bachata done in anything other than English or any of the South American languages.

So, I got the name of the song from the DJ on a piece of paper and put it in my friends hand bag, subsequently forgot about it. Since then, I have been searching for that song or even any Japanese Bachata music to no avail.

Finally, after 5-6 months of searching, I decided sent the DJ an email and she sent me the song!

Maybe, I will save you 5-6 months of searching =)
Unknown Japenese Bachata Song
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If you know any Japanese Bachata Songs, send me an email. Im interested in listening to it.

For my non-Dancer readers

If you have no idea what Bachata is, I have a video of it here

According to my housemate, the name of the original song(most latin songs are remixed/redone with latin beats) is Fukuyama Masaharu – Sakurazaka. Heres the vid, enjoy =)

Note: I found out that the song is actually Bolero but at the same time, read that Bachata did come from Bolero and in the early days was danced to bolero music. Due to my lack of awareness of bolero music, I was lead to believe this was a bachata. That said, if I were to hear this song in the clubs, I would still dance bachata to this because I have no idea how to Bolero.

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