One of the key components of producer mus.hiba’s music these last few years have been digital voices, created using a freeware version of signing-synthesizer program Vocaloid called UTAU that generated the vocals on many of his tracks. Yet for his new song “Ginkgo,” he’s decided to bring a dash of real humanity to his slowly…
Producer mus.hiba has a new EP out at the end of the month, and he’s shared a taste of it with “Heya.” Still central to his music is the voice of Sekka Yufu, generated by a Vocaloid-like software called Utau, and chilliness remains the dominant atmosphere. “Heya” is on the sparse side, crackling forward, and…
mus.hiba’s White Girl was our second-favorite album of 2014, and now…everyone has remixed songs from it via Zoom Lens. No, really, look at this list. This is a bunch of Japanese artists we’ve been enjoying for quite some time…LLLL! Yoshino Yoshikawa! i-fls! Foodman! GEEEZ. And rounding it out are a bunch of great non-Japanese producers,…
Clip art forever 5. Metome Objet It was another solid year for the Kansai electronic music scene, and 2015 looks like it will keep the trend rolling – just look at this Seiho and Avec Avec video! Still, the best-album-out-of-the-region race ended really early in 2014 – Osaka’s Metome dropped Objet just as the calendar…
Tokyo outfit LLLL released one of our favorite albums of 2014 with Paradice, released via American label Zoom Lens. Now, that imprint is planning to release a new remix album of Paradice on December 16 called Paradice: Revisited By Friends And Lovers. And Make Believe Melodies is excited to announce that we will be premiering…