Kagamine Rin - HIKIZURI

Your steaming hot portion of Friday fun has arrived! This is a special from our chief, Utsu-P. The serving includes: brutal guitar sound, mid-tempo for extra chunkiness, gut-wrenching breakdown, Rin-chan trying to dance in the middle of the dish and a pair of chopsticks. Enjoy yourself!

Waya-waya!

Youtube:

Nicovideo link: http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm28885114
Lyrics and off-vocal version: http://piapro.jp/t/cVho

Hikizuri is a kind of kimono with very long skirt trailing on the floor. It’s worn by maiko (lit. ‘female dancer’), young geisha apprentices.

ALGORITHM - album review

The much anticipated, long-awaited new album from Utsu-P is out, and if that’s not gross enough event to kick VMW out of termless hibernation then I don’t know what is! :)

Unlike the previous release, “Warufuzake”, which was recorded under the ‘traditional industry’ ‘big label’, this album falls back into the category of indie titles. Doujinshi, if you somehow prefer Nippon over English. So, basically, all that means just there has been less hype over it this time. Honestly, hype hardly can make good music sound better, and hype around bad music isn’t a proper thing at all...
”Algorithm” was presented at 86^th Comiket, the venue being the very essence of doujinshi subculture. Moreover, Utsu-P explicitly refers to “Algo” as the fourth his album, with the third being “Moksha”. So “Warufuzake”, despite being a ‘commercial breakthrough’ etc., is disregarded as a mere spin-off from the circle MY SONG IS SHIT. And this circle should still be considered the main form for producer’s creative work. At least for the music from the heavier side of spectrum.

GUMI - Minagoroshi no magic

Utsu-P as he is. Rhythmic noises, utterly destructive and perfectly awesome. ‘Minagoroshi’ in the title translates as ‘slaughter’. And no, I’m totally clueless why all the eggs ;)


Youtube:

Nicovideo link: http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm22991979


Utsu-P, that’s a gross piece, lemme shake your hand… OMFG?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Video by Funmatsu.

Hatsune Miku - Gorgeous Big taidan

Utsu-P’s collaboration with Pinocchio-P. I hope you know who is Utsu-P :) As for his colleague, he is in fact more popular than Utsu. Being on a Vocaloid scene since 2009, he makes songs mostly in j-rock genre, with a focus on amusing lyrics which we, western bastards, would never understand in any case. In case if you wonder, ‘taidan’ in the title translates as ‘interview’, but you’d figure out it by yourself from the video :)

The crossbreed, quite unexpected for me, is a clear post-punk. Except for post-punk genre in general is as clear as mud ;) Two producer’s styles fuse perfectly, and the song goes as a dialogue of two kinds of Miku. Only I haven’t managed to rule out which Miku represents each author :) I believe there’s no need to say anything particular about music, because masters are always masters! And the lyrics are awaiting translation, hope we won’t be waiting too long.


Youtube:

Nicovideo link: http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm22826385


 
Video’s art by Pinocchio-P himself.