Da Pump

Da Pump certainly are a Japan all-male vocal dance-pop music group having a hip-hop slant that enjoyed many years of stratospheric recognition in the past due ’90s and early 2000s, and were able to come back with a fresh solid in 2008 after lapsing right into a hiatus prompted by dropping product sales. The first, traditional incarnation of the group presented Issa because the lead vocalist, in addition to MCs Ken, Yukinari, and Shinobu; most of them had been college students of the Okinawa Stars College, which also spawned showbiz giants such as for example Rate and Amuro Namie. The group debuted in 1997 using the Akio Togashi-produced solitary Feelin’ Great — It’s Heaven, which arrived on Avex Melody, making them mostly of the Japanese boy rings not associated with the almighty Johnny’s Entertainment skill agency. They obtained their 1st big hit making use of their 5th solitary, Rhapsody in Blue (1997), which also offered the track they performed within the ultra-popular New 12 months tv program Kouhaku Uta Gassen — the very first within their stint of five Kouhaku looks inside a row. Their debut recording, Expression, arrived in 1998 aswell, although it required them some time to best the charts having a full-length — their third recording, Defeat Ball (1999), was the first ever to do it, accompanied by the collection Da Greatest of Da Pump, which shifted 1.2 million copies in 2002, if they took a rest from their steady schedule being a band. Issa and Ken debuted as single artists at that time — Ken documented with Hiro, and Issa added a theme tune for the well-known Kamen Rider tv series. Da Pump came back to operate in 2003, and shortly released their 4th record, Shippuu Ranbu Event II (2004) — the very first full-length they created themselves — however they hardly ever topped their prior efforts. To include salt to the wound, Shinobu was busted in 2005 for dui. In 2006, he officially still left the group, which announced programs to be on as trio, but continued a hiatus rather. The compilation 2 Plus 4 marketed a meager 5,500 copies in its debut week in 2006. Nevertheless, in 2008, Da Pump had been reinstated, this time around as an eight-strong collective that highlighted Issa and Ken furthermore to six brand-new members (Yukinari still left) and positioned a heavier focus on the media component of their function. The music group released the return one Summertime Rider and continued a tour in ’09 2009, but Ken announced he was departing by the finish of the entire year.