The Japanese music room, also known by it's more popular acronym jmr,
is one of the oldest chatrooms on the Soulseek chat servers. It was founded right around the time the slsk program began to receive widespread useage, circa first quarter of the year 2002.
The room is populated with people who are interested in a variety of
Japanese music genres, from regular mainstream music such as pop, R&B, hip-hop,
anime and rock right down to obscure and niche genres like shibuya-kei, noise,
electronic, punk, metal and others. Also, we are not snobs, even though it's
not Japanese music, as long as it's good we still allow it. Sometimes, you
may participate in lively discussions on Japanese music and other interesting
topics, and generally users are very friendly and unselfish enough to share
music with you. If you have any problems, don't be shy to ask questions on
the chatroom. Just be patient when asking a question during a heated
discussion, sometimes people missed it the first time.
For a time, the room is the second-most-populated room on the server,
with numbers of up to 60 people when the maximum for a room was still below
a hundred users. But the closure of the popular AudioGalaxy program caused
a mass exodus of users to many competing programs, one of which would
include Soulseek. Thus, other rooms began to pop up and overtake the
Japanese music room. However, the room is still popular enough to be
in the top ten rooms by sheer number of users currently inside it.
Nowadays, the room would have nearly 300 people in it thanks to word-of-mouth advertising.
One of the more exclusive features of this room would probably be
the jmr New Release Servers, users who are online most of the time will serve the newest and latest Japanese music material available to everyone who is on the the Japanese music room. So if you are looking for new materials such as the latest singles, albums, concerts or PVs (promotional videos), check out the users with (jmr) in front of their usernames.
IMPORTANT NOTICE!: Access the latest news, announcement and even BitTorrent trackers over at the
Official Japanese music room Forum, be sure to read them for the most up-to-date info on this room's activities.
There is also a new subcategory of the New Release System called the Indie Release. This subcategory concentrate on new releases from Japan's independent music scene. Look out for users with (jir) in front of their usernames.
These are some of the chat logs that may be of interest. Although they are old,
they may contain things that you didn't know about Japanese music and Japanese culture
in general. Identities have been changed to protect the innocent.
Japanese music chat:
One guy goes overboard with his love of the ground-breaking game, Street Fighter II,
and is later accused of being gay. Truly the End of The World is NEAR!Introduction
New Release Servers
Chat Logs from the Japanese music room
Japanese music chat:
Do you believe in Japanese music scene rumors and/or statistics? If you do, then this one
is for you.
Japanese music chat:
The return of a past troublemaker along with discussion on TRESET the idiot French-Canadian
rapper, the amount of Ringo Shiina files shared, making your own kick-ass homepage and
other stuff.
Japanese music chat:
Discussions on Middle East history, BoA's duet with UK boyband WestLife, some car talk, Britney
Spears new persona and other random things.
Japanese music chat:
"You crazy yaoi people. Normal people don't do this." Who is he/she talking about?
Find out inside this log! Also, more Iron Chef quotes!
Japanese music chat:
Japanese page on ascii art, new Japanese music material discussed and how to
rip DVD video so you can play them on a computer. Allez cuisine!
Japanese music chat:
An Israeli in Japan, discussion on 3D animation and rendering software,
selling your ex-girlfriend's eggs to raise money and strangely no April
Fools Joke (unless you count the previous item).
Japanese music chat:
The SARS virus, upcoming old and new releases, home-made music and remixes and other
goodness. Most importantly, no stupid discussion on the war.
Japanese music chat:
As war looms inevitably, the debate continues on, even the death of the American peace
activist who was killed by a bulldozer in Israel is brought up. Also, some requests for
Garlic Boys and Hikaru Utada materials.
Japanese music chat:
A debate on men wearing corsets, Blam Honey, Dir en Grey, the cover to Ayumi Hamasaki's
A Ballads album, car maintenance stories and weird Japanese fetishes.
Japanese music chat:
A discussion on cosplay fashion turns into a debate on the war in Iraq. The debate ends
only after a SADS videos was exchanged, in true Japanese music room fashion.
Japanese music chat:
New L'Arc~en~Ciel albums mentioned, the new Back Horn video, and two words explain it all:
uguisutani watari.
Japanese music chat:
New SADS album and DVD mentioned, outsiders try to hijack the discussion with a 'Simple Plan',
Folder 5 materials wanted, Go! Go! 7188 concert videos, someone confesses his love to a fellow
chatter and even this page gets
a mention!
Japanese music chat:
Info on what happened to the girls who failed the Hello! Project auditions revealed.
Also, Family Guy rules!
Japanese music chat:
Anti-war movement as well as acid-jazz, ska punk, R&B and rap-metal Japanese artistes
discussed.
Japanese music chat:
One of the most controversial Japanese subculture is discussed among the regular chatters.
Not for the easily offended.
Japanese music chat:
Lamers sling racial insults at the chatters, and a discussion on old NES games.
Japanese music chat:
Soulseek problems, the Jpopmusic.com forums,
controversial Gackt pictures, Corel Illustrator and Japanese hotspots all mentioned in
a 5 KB log file.
Japanese music chat:
Another request for the new Ringo Shiina album, then some more discussions on a
controversial topic.
Japanese music chat:
The chatters argue between themselves, who got the MPEG Video specs right?
Japanese music chat:
A guide on what to do after graduating only to find that there's not
a job opening available.
Japanese music chat:
A request for the new Ringo Shiina album, then some discussions on a controversial topic.
Private chat:
A guy helping out a brother to write some poetry.