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Album Review: Perfume - Game
via Japanator by (author unknown) on April 17, 2008
Producer Nakata Yasutaka seems to have cornered the market on hard-hitting pop groups that feature razor sharp and upfront bass-lines, earsplitting percussion and heavily robotized girly vocals. He's the mad-scientist behind not only the ultra chic Capsule, but also the new MEG sound, Coltemonikha and today's subject in question, Perfume.
Yasutaka has done a thing of genius in crafting his particular strain of dance music. He's managed to make purely fabricated pop vocals the main feature of his music, removing the final pesky variable from the equation. It's OK that they sound absolutely fake and overly processed. Gone are the days of disco divas belting out their soulful lyrics. Now it's just fine that the voices are absolutely devoid of emotion and nuance. The astounding popularity of the Vocaloid software, basically a cute Japanese singing girl in a box, only goes to show the total acceptance of this new ghost in the machine. Real singers are quickly becoming a thing of the past. Producers no longer have to deal with real, living and breathing human beings. They are free to remain in isolation, creating their own special world in their own image.Shared by: