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Guuzen no Kakuritsu photoshoot

Artist: GIRL NEXT DOOR Product Code: AVCD-31478/9 Release Date: 2008.09.03 Highest Ranking: #3 Genre: Pop/Electronic/Rock Label: avex trax Format: CD or CD+DVD First Press: Cardboard Slipcase and Photobook

Two years ago, the avex produced band GIRL NEXT DOOR, nicknamed Garuneku released their debut single in September 2008. This band of three members center around Chisa, the vocalist, who originally was a dancer in the Kansai area. She attracted the attention of avex trax, was encouraged to go to Tokyo and enter Avex Artist Academy on a scholarship. There she met Suzuki Daisuke who composed tracks for other artists. Together they started working on demo tracks and they caught the attention of Max Matsuura. Shortly afterwards Inoue Yuji joined them as guitarist and they started preparing for their debut. avex packaged this band as their 20th anniversary product. Since it was a 20th anniversary project it was quite a challenge to reproduce the signature sound of avex and bring forward something new…

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