The Godfather For X-Box Award For Song That Seems Better In Video Game Version But Isn’t

ByPatrick St. Michel

[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCcEbye6wuU”] Tokyo Girls’ Style – “Kodō no Himitsu” When I originally wrote about Tokyo Girls’ Style’s “Kodō no Himitsu,” that geographically-accurate idol group getting only the slightest attention as I instead decided to praise chiptune outfit YMCK. Their NES-tastic remix still sounds plenty good, but as the year draws to an end and I look…

In Which We Finally Recognize The Greatness Of YMCK: Tokyo Girls’ Style “Kodō No Himitsu” With YMCK Remix

ByPatrick St. Michel

Here’s a group rarely written about on this blog that deserves way more attention (and, rightfully, has gotten it from places far more legitimate than here). YMCK make chiptune music, but instead of using 8-bit noises as a way to spazz out or as a crutch for nostalgia, they make unabashed J-Pop out of old…