They also paid their debt to Yellow Magic Orchestra with a cover of "Cosmic Surfing" - and in a way, DG spent an early part of their career picking up where YMO left off, blending Eastern and Western sound and adding a big dose of self-aware, self-deprecating humor. Their very first album, 662bpm by DG, was released on indie label SSE in 1990 and contained earlier versions of songs they would later go on to rewrite. Beginning as something as a four-piece but slimming eventually down to the primary duo of Takkyu Ishino and Pierre Taki, Denki Groove has always been about a playful mixing of styles, genres, and influences. Denki Groove (the first word in Japanese means "electricity") became one of the more successful techno/dance bands in Japan in the late '90s, with an experimental, sometimes poppy style that earned them fans above ground and underground, from the charts to the clubs.
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