There are several angles one could approach “Winter Valentine” from. It finds Vocaloid-favoring producer mus.hiba teaming up with Brighton-based musician and video-game-music composer Calum Bowen, and is just the latest in a wave of Japanese artists hooking up with overseas artists for various enterprises (see i-fls and, uh, mus.hiba working with Zoom Lens, or Cokiyu…
What got us excited about mus.hiba back when he uploaded “Magical Fizzy Drink” was the fact the young Tokyo producer used Vocaloid technology, the singing-synthesizer software often bundled with cute anime characters, to create music that was experimental. His use of Sekka Yufu (one character) is really important for showing the potential Vocaloid holds as…
For this month’s edition of the Music Alliance Pact, Make Believe Melodies has highlighted “Magical Fizzy Drink” by mus.hiba. You can listen to it, and more great tunes from music blogs all over the world, below. Click the play button icon to listen to individual songs, right-click on the song title to download an mp3,…
For research purposes, I went to a Vocaloid event this past weekend. One room was set off for aspiring Vocaloid producers and bands to push their various products – which mostly meant CDs, although the most popular items tended to be badges, stickers and uhhhhh flasks. The other, more crowded space, though, hosted several Vocaloid…