Halcali Bacon (ハルカリベーコン) is the first album released by Halcali. It reached number five on the Oricon chart in Japan, and stayed on the chart for 21 weeks, making it the first album by a female hip-hop artist to enter the top ten in Japanese history.[1] Halcali's debut album featured many well-known Japanese hiphop producers as guests, as well.[2] Drowned in Sound's Samual Rosean, in a 2018 article on Shibuya-kei, a micro-genre of Japanese pop combining very different styles, noted that in 2003 it was a "prominent release" (mixing shibuya-kei with "pop rap" and hip-hop), alongside releases by Plus-Tech Squeeze Box and Bo En.[3]

Halcali Bacon
Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 3, 2003
GenreJ-pop, hip-pop
LabelFor Life
Halcali albums chronology
Halcali Bacon
(2003)
Ongaku no Susume
(2004)

Track listing edit

CD edit

  1. "Intro. Halcali Bacon"
  2. "タンデム" (Tandem)
  3. "ギリギリ・サーフライダー" (Girigiri Surf Rider)
  4. "嗚呼ハルカリセンセーション" (AhAh Halcali Sensation)
  5. "おつかれSUMMER" (Otsukare Summer, Good Job This Summer)
  6. "ハルカリズム "CANDY HEARTS"" (Halcalism "Candy Hearts"/Halcali Rhythm "Candy Hearts")
  7. "Conversation of a Mystery"
  8. "Peek-A-Boo"
  9. "Hello,Hello,Alone"
  10. "スタイリースタイリー" (Stylee Stylee)
  11. "エレクトリック先生" (Electric Sensei, Electric Teacher)
  12. "続・真夜中のグランド" (Tsuzuki, Mayonaka no Grand, Continued: Schoolyard in the Middle of the Night)

References edit

  1. ^ Epic Records, Sony Music Entertainment Japan, (2007) "Halcali Official Web Site" Epic Records/Sony --"女性ラッパーとしては初のベストテン入り!オリコンアルバムチャート5位にランクイン。"
  2. ^ "ハルカリベーコン HALCALIのプロフィールならオリコン芸能人事典-ORICON STYLE". Oricon\. Retrieved 2012-02-20.
  3. ^ Rosean, Samuel (29 December 2018). "A Beginner's Guide: Shibuya-kei". Drowned in Sound. Retrieved 23 February 2022.