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  • polymetrica 1:25 am on November 17, 2009 Permalink | Reply |
    Tags: , Music, Niou Tachi,   

    【Lyrics】ココロノコリと浮遊 (Regret and Float) 

    The only newish Vocaloid song I’ve been continually listening to this past month. Recommended by 古川P (FurukawaP).

    This post consists of three parts:
    1. Original lyrics
    2. Transliteration
    3. Translation

    ココロノコリと浮遊 (KOKORONOKORI to Fuyuu / Regret and Float)

    Lyrics: ぽわぽわP(仁王立ち) (PowapowaP aka Niou Tachi)
    Compose: ぽわぽわP(仁王立ち)
    Arrange: ぽわぽわP(仁王立ち)
    Vocals: Hatsune Miku

    Nico | Youtube
    MP3 | MP3 (Luka ver.)

    仁王立ちさんのコメント:
    (ピアプロから)
    死別曲です。いちどやってみたかった。
    かつて恐れてた事が起きてしまったって感じの曲です。

    Niou Tachi’s Comment:
    (From Piapro)
    This is a bereavement song. Trying it out just this one time.
    It’s a song with a feeling of suddenly remembering something you used to be afraid of.

    Artwork used in the video for the song. Click to enlarge. (Illust: つりざお@Piapro)

    Descrption: A requiem with a peaceful electronic twist and simple atmosphere. Great song to loop while reading or doing homework. Vocal tuning is good, but the whole mood of the song is quite moving and is the most notable. I recommend the Luka version over the Miku version.

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    • Yi 1:41 am on November 17, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      Adding this to my growing playlist of Vocaloid songs. I love the calming feel of the song.
      The lyrics and the artwork are rather appropriate too, as the song does sound a bit like light raindrops.

      Anyway, thanks for the translation and the song. ^ ^

    • NIngyo 12:09 pm on November 17, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      Perhaps Miku’s consistent pitch is what makes her rather suited for moving, calming songs. Still, I go back to upbeat-ier songs like Koisuru Voc@loid when they start getting too bleak and melancholic ;-;

  • polymetrica 8:35 pm on November 4, 2009 Permalink | Reply |
    Tags: Music, , Umemiya Hina   

    【Singer】梅宮雛 (UMEMIYA Hina) 

    梅宮雛 (UMEMIYA Hina) is a relatively well-known niconico singer best known for her rendition of wowaka’s 裏表ラバーズ (Uraomote Lovers/Love & Lovers). Her titles always start with “人知れず”, which means “secretly”. (So the whole template title translates to something like “Tried to Sing in secret / Umemiya Hina”). As well, she gets other people on niconico to help her with mixing her songs. Also, Umemiya Hina is most likely not her real name.

    Umemiya is capable of hitting extremely high notes without straining, wavering or straying from the note, and can sing in many different voices, though the usual one she uses is slightly cutesy but not at all annoying. Some of her “other voices” sound like Kagamine Len and even INOUE Marina. (See her rendition of Nanairo no NicoNico Douga). She also seems to have really good breath control since she can not only switch between voices quickly, but she can also keep singing a lot without gasping for breath (See her rendition of Uramote).

    Essential Works:
    1. 裏表ラバーズ (Uraomote Lovers/Love & Lovers) (niconico link) **Most Popular Work**
    2. 炉心融解 (Roshin Yuukai/Meltdown) (niconico link)
    3. いつもより泣き虫な空 (Itsumo Yori Nakimushi na Sora/A Sky Who’s Being More of a Crybaby Than Usual) (niconico link) **Recommended**

    Niconico Profile: http://www.nicovideo.jp/user/10862349
    Mylist: http://www.nicovideo.jp/mylist/10657771

     
  • polymetrica 5:27 pm on October 26, 2009 Permalink | Reply |
    Tags: AVTechNO, , Music,   

    【Lyrics】 I Love Loop 

    This song’s title is absolutely not a misnomer. Also makes great background music.

    This post consists of three parts:
    1. Original lyrics
    2. Transliteration
    3. Translation

    I love Loop

    Lyrics: AVTechNO
    Compose: AVTechNO
    Arrange: AVTechNO
    Vocals: Megurine Luka (I Love Loop) / Hatsune Miku (i love loop 単調)

    I Love Loop feat. Megurine Luka
    Nico | Youtube
    MP3 | Instrumental

    i love loop 単調 (Tanchou/Monotone) feat. Hatsune Miku
    Nico | Youtube
    iTunes

    Artwork drawn specially for i love loop 単調. (Illust: 和音)

    Description: Original version (I Love Loop) is sung by Megurine Luka, and a slightly remixed cover sung by Hatsune Miku (i love loop 単調/Tanchou/Monotone) was released to be distributed through iTunes under KarenT in Piapro. Both versions have the exact same lyrics.

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  • polymetrica 6:15 pm on October 20, 2009 Permalink | Reply |
    Tags: , Music,   

    【Lyrics】 VOSTOK 

    Not a new song, just a very good song in terms of high loopability and coolness of theme.

    This post consists of three parts:
    1. Original lyrics
    2. Transliteration
    3. Translation
    4. Singable Translation (For vostok2+, by つてと (ikuy398) from this video)

    VOSTOK

    Lyrics: あつぞうくん (Atsuzou-kun)
    Compose: あつぞうくん (Atsuzou-kun)
    Arrange: あつぞうくん (Atsuzou-kun)
    Vocals: Hatsune Miku

    VOSTOK → Nico | Nicosound
    vostok2+ → Nico | Youtube

    あつぞうくんさんのコメント: 3曲目出来ました!無職力を発揮してます。今回はボッサ・ラウンジ・カフェとかそんな感じでしょうか?。そんなオサレ場所に縁ないですが。登場人物は主人公ボストーク1号、宇宙犬ベルカとストレルカ、人間ユーリィ・ガガーリン。60年代の宇宙は希望とサイエンスに溢れております。宇宙と未来とSFは男子の永遠の夢です。さてさて次の曲の準備します。

    Atsuzou-kun’s Comment: Finished my 3rd song! Take a look at the power of the unemployed. The song this time should give off a feel of bossa, lounge, cafe, or something like that? Even though I’m not really one for stylish places like those…The characters this time include the Vostok 1, some space dogs named Belka and Strelka, and a human named Yuri Gagarin. It was from the 60’s when the dreams and sciences for getting to space really took off. Space, the future, and science fiction have always been the dreams of a young man after all. Anyways, I’ll get to preparing my next song now.

    Image used in VOSTOK. Vostok 1, Belka, Strelka, and Yuri Gagarin are in it. Click to enlarge.

    Description: A relaxing song of the Bossa nova genre about the USSR’s space frenzy during the 60’s. Atsuzou-kun made a remix called vostok2+ that sounds more pop-ish and wintry about a month and a bit after posting VOSTOK. Both songs have the same lyrics.

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  • polymetrica 12:46 am on October 17, 2009 Permalink | Reply |
    Tags: Music, , UmiNeko   

    【Singer】UmiNeko 

    I don’t usually listen to male singers for unknown reasons, but this person is far too great.

    UmiNeko is an amateur singer from niconico who is becoming more well-known recently for his unique voice and consistently high quality works. His most popular works are his renditions of DixieFlatline’s Just Be Friends, with 1906 Mylists, and におP’s (nioP) 蜜蜂 (Mitsubachi/Honeybee) with 1536 Mylists. He almost always provides MP3 downloads of his songs, and the majority of his songs are mixed by madamxx and encoded by various people. In addition to singing, he also has a radio show hosted on niconico live stream sometimes.

    UmiNeko’s voice is, to put it in one word, soulful. It is mature, emotional, and has weight as he retains all his notes completely and fully, which makes him extremely suitable for songs of the Soul genre. Despite having a pretty specialized voice, he sings many songs from different genres, including Jazz, R&B, and Pop, to name a few. UmiNeko usually sings in a relatively low voice, but he has absolutely no trouble transitioning to really high notes quickly and smoothly. He also likes to do a lot of really well-done scat singing. Lastly, UmiNeko also songs quite a bit of English songs (which I think he is best suited for), and his English pronounciation is quite good.

    Please give his songs a listen! His voice might take a bit of getting used to at first, but it is absolutely incredible from his first songs to the most recent ones. I had a hard time picking only 6 songs to list here.

    Essential Works – Vocaloid Covers:
    1. 蜜蜂 (Mitsubachi/Honeybee) (niconico link) **Representative Work & Highly Recommended**
    2. 少年銀河 (Shounen Ginga/Boy Galaxy) (niconico link) →Recommended
    3. つよがり (Tsuyogari/Bluff) (niconico link) →First work

    Essential Works – Original/English:
    1. Losing game (niconico link) (Original song; Collaboration with におP (nioP)
    2. You Give Me Something (niconico link) (English song; James Morrison) →Recommended
    3. What’s Going On (niconico link) (English song; Marvin Gaye)

    Mylist: http://www.nicovideo.jp/mylist/9247970
    niconico Community: http://ch.nicovideo.jp/community/co71841
    Youtube Playlist: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=7EA54D231EF07449

     
  • polymetrica 10:19 pm on October 10, 2009 Permalink | Reply |
    Tags: buchiko, , Music, T-POCKET,   

    【Lyrics】 1925 

    Everybody else’s song of the week, and also my (other) song of the week. \o/

    This post consists of three parts:
    1. Original lyrics
    2. Transliteration (by viridian_lights@Livejournal)
    3. Translation

    1925

    Lyrics: T-POCKET
    Compose: T-POCKET
    Arrange: T-POCKET
    Illustration: buchiko
    Vocals: Hatsune Miku

    Nico | Youtube
    MP3 | Instrumental
    English Subbed Video (Alternate and better translation by KataGatar)

    T-POCKETさんのコメント
    (ニコニコから)
    【素晴らしい絵とタイトルはpiaproよりbuchiko様からお借りしました。本当にありがとうございます。】今日はみんなに素敵なお友達を紹介するよ☆まいけるだ!顔はカッコいいし、喋りは上手い。気だても良くて、眉目秀麗、錦上添花、おまけにこの筋肉だ!ぼくの自慢の友達さっ!えぇ?!君も彼のようになりたいだって?どうだい、まいける?「そんなの簡単さぁっ☆なんたってこの教本セットがあるからね!これは簡単なトレーニングを1日たったの3分/150セットやるだけでぼくのようになれるんだ☆そして、なんとこの教本には1028通りのメニューが載っているから飽きっぽい人も安心だね!さらに今回は、先日発売して大好評だったあの『全自動湯沸かし器』もお付けして、たったの3980円!!!(月々3980円の100回払い)
    (ブログから)
    レトロでスタイリッシュな絵のおかげで、泥臭い曲と歌詞が一気にお洒落になりました。

    T-POCKET’s comment:
    (From niconico)
    【The awesome artwork and title were borrowed from buchiko at piapro. Thank you so much.】Today I will introduce everyone to a marvelous friend☆This is Michael! He has an attractive face AND he’s good at chatting. He’s also good-natured, handsome, and to top it all off, a bonus are these muscles of his! So, my boastful friends..! Huuuh?! Did you just say you want to be like him? What do you say to that, Michael? “That’s easy you see☆It’s because I had this set of textbooks, you know! Just do this easy training everyday for three minutes per 150 sets and you’ll become just like me☆Also, what’s in these textbooks is a menu of 1028 ways you can do it, so even people who get tired of the same old routines can rest easy! And this time, we’ll even throw in an “Automatic Water-boiler” which was a big hit when we sold it the other day, and all this is only 3980 Yen!!!(In 100 payments of 3980 Yen every month)
    (From his blog)
    Thanks to the retro and stylish artwork, the crudeness of the song and the lyrics suddenly seemed cool.

    Artwork used in the video for the song. Title of song is also from artwork title. (Illust: buchiko@Piapro)

    Description: This song dominated the music and overall daily rankings this week, getting 11,000+ Mylists in less than a week, which will definitely secure its place in the Weekly Vocaloid Rankings, and has already been attached with the “VOCALOID殿堂入り” (Vocaloid Hall of Fame) tag. Also, T-POCKET’s video comment is intentionally meaningless and out of place, and I’m sure we all had fun reading it regardless. This song is T-POCKET’s first widely well-received song, with his next most Mylisted song only having 94 Mylists.

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    • Belindahhh 8:33 am on October 12, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      Thank you for the translations to these songs as usual :D now i’m slightly less confused about what the songs mean \o/ these songs’ lyrics are so deep…

  • polymetrica 4:58 pm on October 10, 2009 Permalink | Reply |
    Tags: , Miksolodyne-ts, Music,   

    【Lyrics】Ding-Dong 

    My song of the week. It’s been on endless loop, and I can’t get enough of that synthed sax.

    This post consists of three parts:
    1. Original lyrics
    2. Transliteration
    3. Translation

    Ding-Dong

    Lyrics: Miksolodyne-ts
    Compose: Miksolodyne-ts
    Arrange: Miksolodyne-ts
    PV: オサレP (OSARE P)
    Vocals: Megurine Luka

    Nico | Youtube
    MP3 | Instrumental

    Miksolodyne-tsさんのコメント
    tsです。オサレPさんとのコラボ3つ目です!今回は山本ニューさんの大好きな名曲のフレーズがずっと耳から離れなくって曲を作ってしまいました!(もちろんあんないい曲にはできませんでしたが・・・そこはオサレPさんの素敵な夜のイメージでカバーなのです)曲も歌も絵も言葉も、素敵なセンスに出会うと感動したりうらやましく思ったり→mylist/15135721(ほかにもたくさんすごいひとが・・・)宣伝宣伝!→nm8265110

    Miksolodyne-ts’s Comment:
    ts here. This is my 3rd collaboration with OSAREP! Made this song since I was inspired by Yamamoto New’s incredible song, which has that one phrase that always gets stuck in my head. (Of course this song probably couldn’t do the same…but OSAREP’s spectacular night images will cover that.) Here are some works that I think have really good taste in everything, from the melody to the song to the artwork to the lyrics, and have made me both deeply moved and jealous→mylist/15135721(Except there are still a lot of other really awesome people I didn’t cover…)Plugging!→nm8265110

    Shot from the PV by オサレP. Click to enlarge.

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    • Hrie~!! 8:11 am on October 14, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      Luka sometimes reminds me of Sade Adu and the song smooth operator haha

  • polymetrica 4:18 pm on October 9, 2009 Permalink | Reply |
    Tags: Annabel, bermei.inazawa, Chata, , , Hanatan, Katakiri Rekka, M3, , Music, , Shibayan, , , Usa   

    Things I Am Excited About 【Fall 2009 M3(24)】 

    Click to go to the M3 Homepage.

    M3 is a one-day, biannual, music-only convention held in Yokohama, Japan, and its name stands for “Music + Media-Mix Market”. It’s kind of like Tokyo’s Comiket but for doujin music artists only. The Fall M3 event for 2009 will be held on October 11th, and is the 24th iteration of the event. This post will briefly highlight only the circle releases I am watching for (22 releases in total are profiled here). Click on the banners for a link to the site, all of which include demos unless otherwise stated. Info is listed BELOW the banner.

    Entries are loosely ordered by genre:
    1. Original, xx-based (ie. Story-based, Light Novel-based, etc)
    2. Original, Pop / Original, Pop-rock
    3. Original
    4. Touhou Arrange
    5. Cover
    ★★ entries are the ones I am most excited about.

    Copy and paste the stars or genre titles into CTRL+F to find them.

    I know the doujin music scene is a pretty uncommon/obscure subject in most anime-related blogs, but if you have an interest in finding out more and discovering new artists and such, M3 is seriously the best place to start foraying into this niche-ish sector. Hopefully this post will be helpful for doing that too.

    Official M3 Circle List: http://www.m3net.jp/m3_24/circles.html
    M3 Circle Releases List at BLACK ANGEL: http://blackangel.main.jp/event.php

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    • Hrie~!! 8:53 am on October 14, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      A music version of Comiket? I’d hate to sound like a weeaboo or something but the Japanese have it all, no? OTL

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