Ongaku Cafe (The ’90s): globe – Joy to the love (globe) (1995)

1. Joy to the love (ORIGINAL MIX)
2. Joy to the love (JUNGLE MIX)
3. Joy to the love (TV MIX)

Reviewed back in 1995

After a successful debut with their single “Feel Like Dance”, a month later we have a new single from globe titled “Joy to the love (globe)”. The single is currently being used to promote Toyota’s CYNOS and it’s probably a single that many people are familiar hearing as it has been featured on television quite a bit lately.

The single kicks of with “Joy to the love (Original Mix)”. When I first heard this song, I loved it and I’m actually quite interested in learning more about KEIKO and Marc Panther as there is not much information about them at this time. Otherwise, we do know about TK who has literally has had the Midas Touch with trf, Namie Amuro, Ryoko Shinohara, Yuki Uchida and now with globe.

The track features a pretty cool synth arrangement from TK but the highlight of this unit is KEIKO’s vocals and Marc Panther’s rapping and for the most part, this single is pretty cool. The second track is a JUNGLE MIX and a style that TK has been experimenting with a lot lately with his H-JUNGLE with T project with Hama-chan of DOWNTOWN.

The final third track is the TV mix of “Joy to the love”. If anything, this is mainly the usual offering of the karaoke track with TK singing.

Overall, another exciting single from globe and I look forward to their next! Another single worth recommending!