International Waters: mus.hiba Teams With Shisa And Choongum For “Dreamy Clouds”

Sorta surprising that Tokyo producer mus.hiba ended up being one of the dudes from this metropolis to score a surprising amount of international collabs. It isn’t that his music is all that weird, just that it makes use of a technology you more or less never see pop up in Western songs – Vocaloid, specifically the voice of user-created digi-idol Sekka Yufu. Maybe the world is ready for the possibilities the singing-synthesizer program offers, because first mus.hiba partnered up with Calumn Bowen for a winter-wonderland of a song, and now he’s hooked up with two American producers – Shisa and Choongum – for “Dreamy Clouds,” off the lovely Seascape 64 album by those two Americans. It’s tough pinpointing the exact sounds mus.hiba brings to the song besides the broken croon of Yufu – the synths bring to mind a more cheerful “Magical Fizzy Drink,” while the drums rattle off on something approaching American trap music – but the three artists create an entrancing atmosphere that envelops the ears. As Vocaloid becomes more prominent…or at least known in the West…artists who push the boundaries of the instrument like mus.hiba are vital to showing what can be done with it. Glad Shisa and Choongum know what’s up. Listen below, and buy the whole album here.