Globe is a very popular Jpop band which is known for its excellent synthesizer music and the wide variety of genres they cover. Although the lyrics and vocals are typical for Jpop, their music ranges from techno to rock to trance.

Originally, the band was going to be the duo of Marc Panther and Keiko Yamada with Tetsuya Komuro as the producer. When Marc started writing lyrics with Komuro, Komuro decided he wanted to play with the group and eventually joined them. At first the group's name was going to be "Orange" and in order to match Marc thought it would be neat to pain his bedroom walls orange. Then Komuro decided that "globe" was a more interesting name, so Marc re-painted his walls green.

Keiko was originally a singer and she joined globe by auditioning. Marc is from France and is only half Japanese. Before joining globe to do rap, guitar, and back-up vocals, he worked as a rapper and a model. Komuro was a well known music producer in Japan before joining globe and also a synthesizer artist and he now produces globe and plays keyboard for them along with some back-up vocals.

Discography (Excluding Singles):

globe - March 31, 1996
1. GIVE YOU
2. Feel Like dance
3. GONNA BE ALRIGHT
4. DEPARTURES
5. Regret of the Day
6. Joy to the love
7. SWEET PAIN
8. Always Together
9. Precious Memories
10. FREEDOM
11. MUSIC TAKES ME HIGHER
12.LIGHTS OUT

Faces Places - March 21, 1997
1. overdose
2. DEGENERATE
3. FACES PLACES
4. Is this love
5. So far away from home (Beautiful Journey)
6. a temporary girl
7. Because I LOVE the NIGHT
8. Anytime smokin' cigarette
9. Watch the movie?
10. a picture on my mind
11. FACE
12. Can't Stop Fallin' in Love
13. can't stop PIANO SOLO
14. FACES PLACES (remix)

Love again - March 31, 1998
1. before dark
2. UNDER Your Sky
3. Love again
4. You are the one
5. Nothing ever makes me happy
6. two keys
7. I'm bad
8. Watching everything
9. I'm still alone
10. Open Wide
11. Wanderin' Destiny (album version)
12. creatures
13. end of 3rd element

Relation - December 9, 1998
1. letting out a deep breath
2. across the street,cross the waters
3. wanna Be A Dreammaker
4. creamy day
5. Sa Yo Na Ra
6. sweet heart
7. like a snow kiss
8. calls from the public
9. Relation
10. Perfume of love
11. illusion

FIRST REPRODUCTS - March 31, 1999
1. Sa Yo Na Ra-Junior's global mix
2. Parfume of love-Juniors' club mix
3. Feel Like dance-below the belt remix
4. So far away from home
5. MISS YOUR BODY-studio tracks
6. FACES PLACES-live version
7. DEPARTURES-fallen angel remix
8. Is this love-method of madness remix
9. Joy to the love-live version
10. Anytime smokin' cigarette-live version

CRUISE RECORD 1995-2000 - September 22, 1999
Disc 1
1. Overseas Call
2. MISS YOUR BODY-tan line mix
3. biting her nails
4. still growin' up
5. sweet heart
6. DEPARTURES
7. Anytime smokin' cigarette
8. SWEET PAIN
9. Love again
10. FREEDOM
11. TIME without tears
12. Wanderin' Destiny
13. Sa Yo Na Ra
14. Perfume of love
Disc 2
1. "2"
2. Can't Stop Fallin' In Love
3. RUN AWAY FROM THE NIGHT
4. Piano solo
5. FACES PLACES
6. Joy to the love
7. millennium waves
8. wanna Be A Dreammaker
9. FACE
10. interlude
11. SHOCK INSIDE MY BRAIN
12. You are the one
13. Is this love
14. Feel Like dance
15. to be continued 2000

Sources:
http://www.area-globe.com/
http://www.kfshs.kanazawa-u.ac.jp/stpages/tky/mihomiho.html
http://members.tripod.com/~japanesemusic/globe.html
http://www.geocities.co.jp/CollegeLife/4008/globeisland/disco/index.html

Globe (?), n. [L. globus, perh. akin to L. glomus a ball of yarn, and E. clump, golf: cf. F. globe.]

1.

A round or spherical body, solid or hollow; a body whose surface is in every part equidistant from the center; a ball; a sphere.

2.

Anything which is nearly spherical or globular in shape; as, the globe of the eye; the globe of a lamp.

3.

The earth; the terraqueous ball; -- usually preceded by the definite article.

Locke.

4.

A round model of the world; a spherical representation of the earth or heavens; as, a terrestrial or celestial globe; -- called also artificial globe.

5.

A body of troops, or of men or animals, drawn up in a circle; -- a military formation used by the Romans, answering to the modern infantry square.

Him round A globe of fiery seraphim inclosed. Milton.

Globe amaranth Bot., a plant of the genus Gomphrena (G. globosa), bearing round heads of variously colored flowers, which long retain color when gathered. -- Globe animalcule, a small, globular, locomotive organism (Volvox globator), once throught to be an animal, afterward supposed to be a colony of microscopic algae. -- Globe of compression Mil., a kind of mine producing a wide crater; -- called also overcharged mine. -- Globe daisy Bot., a plant or flower of the genus Globularing, common in Europe. The flowers are minute and form globular heads. -- Globe sight, a form of front sight placed on target rifles. -- Globe slater Zool., an isopod crustacean of the genus Spheroma. -- Globe thistle Bot., a thistlelike plant with the flowers in large globular heads (Cynara Scolymus); also, certain species of the related genus Echinops. -- Globe valve. (a) A ball valve. (b) A valve inclosed in a globular chamber. Knight.

Syn. -- Globe, Sphere, Orb, Ball. -- Globe denotes a round, and usually a solid body; sphere is the term applied in astronomy to such a body, or to the concentric spheres or orbs of the old astronomers; orb is used, especially in poetry, for globe or sphere, and also for the pathway of a heavenly body; ball is applied to the heavenly bodies concieved of as impelled through space.

 

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Globe (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Globed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Globing.]

To gather or form into a globe.

 

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