Paripi Koumei Episode 4 Discussion

SugoiDekaiOppai said:
As someone who does the exact job Kongming does from time to time, tho on a smaller scale, it's refreshing and fascinating to see an anime depicting this job in the japanese EDM/idol/singer Shibuya scene (which is perhaps larger than most scenes of european countries).

The strugles are familiar. Weird timeslots and locations, disinterested, sheepish(gravitating towards crowds) public, promotors(the old man in this case) interested in likes more that the actual music, behind back trash talking by rivals etc...

In this episode, I knew exactly what Kongming is doing imediately. The contact search is done exactly in this manner, however you do target more of a backstage if you can. Being representative of a club/artist usualy opens the doors, since most of the time, other agents are open to knowing you, simply because they aim to "steal" your artist away from you if they see the potential, something that I hope will be depicted and dealt with by Kongmind.

Reffering to the last episodes, traditional way of dealing with subpar stage/timeslot is bribing the sound/light guy to play a little louder/better than usually. Contracts from main stage artists often forbid side stages to play and use light in full capacity, which is determined at soundcheck using the loudness meters, but you can get away with it during the gig since nobody is checking those usually once the real deal starts.

Adding a raper is a smart move, broadening the base and with cross promotion, combining the "like" power but also, differentiating the music adding to the appeal.

Also, 100,000 likes would catapult you to the mainstage of Tomorrowland(Voiceland in the show, the stage is clearly inspired by TL) immediately. The winner of the Sound of Tomorrow, which is the actual DJ competition for Tomorrowland, has something like 1200 likes on IG and managed to get less than 10K of listens.

Salvatore Ganacci, perhaps the most famous "play-because-of-likes" in the past years, played mainstage in 2018 with somehere around 60K likes (although he has had a substantial support and backing by labels of Swedish House Mafia and Skrillex). And he isn't even really good.

Also, Tomorrowland has multiple side stages, so getting there is one thing, getting to the main stage is another. 25k likes would be plenty for an opening slot, 100k will take you to the prime time, especially if you are actually good and marketable, which eiko definitely is. Ot there abouts. Nora en Pure played an opening slot in 2018 mainstage with 60k likes.

Another thing tho, is that Tomorrowland isn't really geared for acts like Eiko. It is heavily EDM DJ oriented and I don't quite remember if any act like this has ever appeared on the mainstage.. However, if they replaced it with Coachella, it would be perfect.

There, a little bit of context :D

Conceptualhero said:


Yo! I always wanted to go to a EDM festival, but most of them are out of my geographical location. I never venture out of the state by myself, so I don't know where to even start. Any advice for someone who wants to experience the EDM scene?