Looking for some asian music??? Then read on.

I've seen many people requesting japanese/chinese/korean albums in this forum, and I always think that its nice when others upload and share their stuff, but most of that has already been done by someone else in other forums or sites, so I thought I should share some links and tips with you all to help out a bit.


TORRENTS:
First of all, my top choice to get stuff is through torrenting, and the absolute best tracker is at JPOPSUKI:
Jpopsuki Tracker (http://mullemeck.serveftp.org/jps_beta/index.php)
Jpopsuki Forums (http://mullemeck.serveftp.org/jps_beta/forum/index.php)
there you can find almost anything, and if its not there or not being seeded anymore you can always use their forum and request it. As the name implies, you'll mainly find japanese releases there, but there is enough cpop and kpop to get you started as well.


DDLs SITES:
I know of these 2 sites from guys/gals who have compiled a bunch of direct download links, and they have a lot of cpop and some kpop too:
Dmrioja's (http://dmriojas.wordpress.com/)
Crazyvoni's (http://aznmusiclove.wordpress.com/index/)
There is also a site, that much like "our own" Galbadia Hotel soundtrack download site, you can get a bunch of albums but will have to download a track at a time, but it has lots of asian music:
JMP3 (http://www.jmp3.net/)


MUSIC FORUMS:
There are several music forums out there in which you'll find a lot of DDLs. I personally use and recommend these two which are particularly useful to find cpop and kpop:
Popular Asians Forum (http://www.popularasians.com/forum/)
Get AZN Music Forum (http://www.getasianmusic.com/forum/)
for example, you'll find a guy sharing 1200+ kpop albums (http://www.popularasians.com/forum/showthread.php?t=15278) in one thread.



I hate to say obvious things, but just in case you are new to all this, always use the search engines in each site to look for stuff before requesting it.

If you are having trouble finding something, I'll be glad to help and look for it, just let me know here (hell, I might have it myself).

As a final comment, I encourage everyone to try not just different music genres, but to at least try to some artists from China, some from Taiwan, some from Korea, some from Japan and so on. Just get some names/recommendations from people and take them for a test ride using youtube, if you dont like them there is no harm, and if you do now you know where to start looking for their albums.

Cheers!

thanks alot for the links..the real trick is finding the good bands among the tons of shit..CHEERS

thanks alot for the links..the real trick is finding the good bands among the tons of shit..CHEERS

that's right, so instead of just taking in everyone's recommendations I like to use wikipedia (or wiki.theppn.org) to read and learn about a band, and then youtube to sample some of their music before even trying to download their stuff.

and how do I learn about new bands, do I just picked them out randomly? Nope, the way I do it is by just watching/listening to JPopsuki TV (http://mullemeck.serveftp.org/jps_beta/forum/viewtopic.php?t=74806) or asking friends who already know my music preferences. I really recommend streaming JPopsuki TV, I just turn it on sometimes and once in a while I bump into something really interesting.

If anyone has any more links or suggestions feel free to share them ;)

Thanx for the guide...to add to this I'd say 80 percent of the time I can google the songs that I want by searching for something like "hikaru megaupload" or "bleach badongo"

Thanx for the guide...to add to this I'd say 80 percent of the time I can google the songs that I want by searching for something like "hikaru megaupload" or "bleach badongo"

whaddayanow... it works! torrenting must have messed up my mind since all it ever occured to me before was to google for "torrent this" or "torrent that". I did find your tip quite useful for locating a couple of albums I was missing, funny thing is the googled links that helped took me back to threads I had missed at the forums I listed above!!!

THXs.

MUSIC FORUMS:
for example, you'll find a guy sharing 1200+ kpop albums (http://www.popularasians.com/forum/showthread.php?t=15278) in one thread.



Great link.
Thanks.

I have access to quite a bit of Asian music.(Chinese,Japanese,Korean)
Although I don't know many of the artists I'll try to fill any request I can.
As long as your request is in english(Artist/Album) I'll up whatever I can't find.

THANK YOU

Great link.
Thanks.

I have access to quite a bit of Asian music.(Chinese,Japanese,Korean)
Although I don't know many of the artists I'll try to fill any request I can.
As long as your request is in english(Artist/Album) I'll up whatever I can't find.

Well, I've looked everywhere for some of Faith Yang (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_Yang)'s albums. She is a taiwanese rock musician. I do have her 3rd (Ought To) and 5th (Continuation) albums, so whenever you have time I hope you can give me a hand and see if you manage to find any of her other albums (One, Silence and First Selection). So, the request goes like this:

REQUEST
Faith Yang/One [1997]
Faith Yang/Silence [1999]
Faith Yang/First Selection [2004]

Thanks in advance m(_ _)m

Thank you so much! I've only recently been able to start up my music collection again, horrible computer crash, and it's been hard to find anything good!
I'm open to most artists and am a sucker for pop or pop/rock stuff; something to dance to! Any suggestions would be much appreciated! =]

Hi buddies, let join for korean mp3 download (http://gallery.mobile9.com/c/mp4-videos/1/?fi=140) party now,
enjoying to download the free download korean video song, cheers.

B.. B.. BUMP!
I would like to add astost.com, tsdm.net and so.baiduyun.me to the list.
Rutracker is good as well.
For ALL your music needs.