Group sounds
Group sounds (Japanese: グループ・サウンズ, Hepburn: Gurūpu Saunzu), often abbreviated as GS, is a genre of Japanese rock music which became popular in the mid to late 1960s and initiated the fusion of Japanese kayōkyoku music and Western rock music. Their music production techniques were regarded as playing a pioneering role in modern Japanese popular music.Group sounds arose following the Beatles performance at the Budokan in 1966, and was strongly influenced by British beat music of the 1960s. Group sounds acts included the Tigers, the Tempters, the Spiders, the Mops, and the Golden Cups. The movement peaked in late 1967 when Jackey Yoshikawa and His Blue Comets  won the Japan Record Award.

See also
Music of Japan
J-pop
Visual kei
Japanese hip hop
Japanese jazz
Japanese reggae
Japanese ska
List of Japanese rock bands
Enka
Ryūkōka

References
External links
Cutie Morning Moon - Dedicated to Japanese 1960s garage punk
The Video Beat - What are the Group Sounds?
Showapop - Group Sounds Record & CD articles in English
Trans World '60s Punk:Cutie Morning Moon Archived 2012-12-24 at the Wayback Machine - Provides Information Mostly About Garage Bands From Outside the United States