NHK-FM's Music Line reveals guests for Sept. 28-Oct. 2, including KERENMI, KiiiKiii, INI, Shioreira, and TAKARA.
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The guest lineup for the music program "Music Line," currently broadcast on NHK-FM, has been announced. On Monday, September 28, KERENMI will appear. From Tsutaya Koichi, who is meeting DJ MAZZEL for the first time, there is immediately an invitation to pasta. Will groove be born over monjayaki? They will also talk about the secret to musicians quickly clicking with each other. In addition, MAZZEL is also astonished! They will get to the bottom of the deep meaning contained in the EP "Cheat," which includes three songs featuring Novel Core as a guest, and the exchanges with AI, and so on. On Tuesday, September 29, two people from the globally active KiiiKiii, Jiyu and Haum, will make their first appearance! They will reveal the Japanese they love learning from anime and song lyrics, and a favorite scene they see at Japanese convenience stores. They will also teach the "usable Korean" requested by HAYATO from MAZZEL. They will deliver plenty of talk related to the songs as well. On Wednesday, September 30, INI's Takeru Goto and Hiromu Takatsuka. DJ MAZZEL has private connections with the members individually. Is this the best shape yet? The four of them will get excited over muscle talk. They will also reveal the staging that was impressive at the Tokyo Dome performance. Regarding the new single "ANTHEM," announced this month, there is an episode about Goto's participation in the lyrics writing, and SEITO asks Takatsuka a question about vocal approach. On Thursday, October 1, Shioreira. In August, it was the third anniversary of her major debut, and she and DJ MAZZEL have a close career, so they hit it off. She talks about the changes she has felt over three years as she has "escaped from being a risk-hedging person," the hobby she is now "trying to get into," the family love depicted in the anime ending theme "Clover," and her common points with herself and the inspiration she received from the work. On Friday, October 2, the unit TAKARA, whose "Time is money" announced in August has been a hot topic, will appear for the first time. From the story of how they formed, to the circumstances behind the debut announcement video that even surprised the two MAZZEL members, to the MV packed with the two members' creativity, and the behind-the-scenes story of the production of the EP "TakarA," they will talk about it all. There will also be talk about "favorite animals," which MAZZEL wants to ask about. Related link: Program homepage
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