Doping Panda

Doping Panda started as an indie rock-band, but moved to bridge both vital elements of japan music picture — optimistic alternative rock and roll and shiny dance-pop — though keeping firmly in the rock and roll aspect. The trio, which includes Yutaka Furukawa (vocal, guitars, and coding), Taro Houjou (bass), and Hayato (drums), continues to be bouncing around japan indie scene because the turn from the hundred years, launching the debut record Performation as soon as 2001. It had been accompanied by two even more indie produces, the EP Green PaNK (2002) as well as the full-length We in Music (2004), before Doping Panda had been agreed upon to gr8 information!, a subdivision of Sony Music casing UVERworld and Orange Range. The music group kicked off its major-label profession with two EPs, Great Fidelity and RUTHLESS (both 2005), before diving headlong into touring, and shortly became a sought-after live action, securing slot machine games at a few of Japan’s biggest rock and roll festivals including Rock and roll in Japan and Summer months Sonic, where they used Sparta Local people, Polysics, and Bottom Ball Keep. The record Dandyism was shipped in 2006, when Doping Panda also made an appearance on Cosmicolor, the record by Japanese hip-hop classics m-flo. The 2007 EP Great Brid [sic] guaranteed them a slot machine on the favorite TV system Music Station, as well as the same yr Furukawa was presented within the “Lose YOUR BRAIN” solitary by Korean/Japanese superstar BoA. The 4th album, Dopamaniacs, arrived in 2008; immediately after, Verbal from m-flo came back the favor, showing up about band’s solitary “Majestic Trancer,” that was included about Doping Panda’s 2009 recording Decadence, plus a contribution from Toru Hidaka of Defeat Crusaders.