''6 Force'' is the first

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(third overall) of

electronica Electronica is both a broad group of electronic-based music styles intended for listening rather than strictly for dancing and a music scene that came to prominence in the early 1990s in the United Kingdom. In the United States, the term is mos ...

singer-lyricist

Aira Mitsuki is a Japanese singer. She debuted on August 8, 2007 with "Colorful Tokyo Sounds No. 9" and released her debut album, '' Copy'' on September 3, 2008. Musical background and releases Aira was chosen as the winner of Mega Trance 2007 from 6,325 ...

. It was released on June 2, 2010 in Japan by

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, and is her last release under the label. It reached #11 on the

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Daily charts and #34 on the Oricon Weekly charts, where it charted for two weeks, selling 3,391 copies. The mini-album marks Aira's experimentation with

rock music Rock is a Music genre, genre of popular music that originated in the United States as "rock and roll" in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of styles from the mid-1960s, primarily in the United States and the United Kingdo ...

, such that half (Fake, Level5 and Turkey) of the mini-album didn't much involve the characteristic use of

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and

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and are in a new-wave rock style, showing Aira's true voice for the first time. The album comes in with a bonus disc upon purchase in either

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containing either tracks "I can't" and "Grotesque" respectively, which are covers from labelmate

Saori@destiny Saori@destiny (pronounced "Saori at Destiny"; born June 10, 1986) is a Japanese singer-lyricist. She made her independent debut on December 5, 2007, with the single "My Boy", followed by her major-label debut single "Sakura" on March 26, 2008 un ...

's second full-length album, World Wild 2010. However, the Tower Records' version of the album, specifically its bonus disc, is rare to be seen as of now, and is sought after by fans.

Track list

All songs are produced by Onishi Terukado except for "Fake," "Level5," and "Turkey", which are produced by rock band SAWAGI, marking this record the first time that Aira was not fully produced by Terukado himself. "Heat My Love" and "Level5" are the album's promotional singles. # Heat My Love (3:23) # Wonder Touch (4:48) # Lie Days (3:52) # Yellow Submarine (3:44) (limited edition)
Display Toy (regular edition) # Fake (4:48) # Level5 (6:00) # Turkey (5:02)

bonus disc # Grotesque (3:29)

bonus disc # I Can't

References

External links

Official Website

6 Force Regular Edition profile at Oricon
6 Force Limited Edition profile at Oricon
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