真夏の海をぶっとばせ!! (Manatsu no Umi wo Buttobase!! )

Eleki is a Japanese instrumental guitar style that erupted in the mid-1960s, named after the Japanese shorthand for "electric" (ereki). It centered on twangy lead-guitar melodies, surf-style spring reverb, and crisp, danceable backbeats, closely modeled on the sound of The Ventures and other early instrumental rock combos. While rooted in American surf and rock and roll, eleki often weaves in distinctly Japanese melodic sensibilities. Players sometimes adapt min'yō (folk) melodies or enka-like phrases, yielding striking hybrids where pentatonic or in-scale motifs are voiced through bright single-coil guitars, fast alternate picking, tremolo arm dips, and liberal use of reverb and tape echo. The result is a clean, tuneful, and highly rhythmic instrumental music that is both retro-modern and unmistakably Japanese.