A proto-version of what would become the Broken Youth single. The tempo is much faster here. The crowd is tiny—maybe 200 people—but they are screaming every word of a song that technically doesn't exist yet. Goosebumps.
This .rar file represents the last moment NICO Touches the Walls was truly "underground." Six months after this rip hit 4chan’s /mu/ board, they released Giant Steps , and they became anime royalty. NICO Touches the Walls - -Password is niconico-.rar
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Listening to -Password is niconico- feels like finding an old flip-phone in a drawer. The battery is dead. The screen is cracked. But the photos inside show you who you were before you grew up. A proto-version of what would become the Broken Youth single
Between 2007 and 2010, before they signed exclusively with Ki/oon Music (a Sony sub-label), NICO Touches the Walls was the undisputed king of the indie scene in Shibuya. They dropped a series of limited-run demo CDs and tour-exclusive EPs. One of the most coveted was the —named not for the video site, but for the Japanese onomatopoeia for a smile (ニコニコ). Goosebumps