Bitpop/art: m7kenji & Toriena - Pulse Fighter

All the images are from "Pulse Fighter"

Bitpopartist m7kenji and music writer Toriena has done this bitpop pearl of a musical and visual art, which really plays (double meaning intented) as a old school video game. This is hard not to love.

• m7kenji & Toriena - Pulse Fighter
• m7kenji & Toriena/Kandi - Pixel Z

Mandopop: Da Mouth - Loser & What The... (魯蛇 & 有事嗎?)

After Da Mouth's glorious piece of retro disco last month, "Funky Girl", the next release was "What The...". It was greally nice too (those bitpop sounds...), but the shadow from even better Funky Girl made me hesitate as it felt like a "weaker" follow up/copy. Now "Loser" is here, and suddenly the persective changes - the retro looks is the central theme - and the three tracks creates a whole that's just superb and heaven! "Loser" is also almost on par with "Funky Girl", so this a perfect friday blog post. Dance, dance, dance. ;-) ;-) (PS This week's episode May 19th of Xiaoyan Night has Da Mouth visiting DS)

• Da Mouth - Loser (魯蛇 )
• Da Mouth - What The... (有事嗎?)

Jpop: De De Mouse

De De Mouse is really Daisuke Endo from Tokyo, who combines 8-bit pop, folk music from East Asia and vocies from children to create ambient electronica.

• De De Mouse - Baby's Star Jam
• De De Mouse - Floats and Falls
• De De Mouse - Milkyway planet
• De De Mouse - Alice
• De De Mouse - East End Girl

Jpop: Omodaka

Under the name Omodaka, Soichi Terada in collaboration with others makes wonderful electronic folk music which could best categorized as indie bitpop (is there any mainstream bitbop btw?) from Japan. I loove it, but I may believe we may also have the ultimate "irritate your parents/neighbors"-music here. I just want to party when I hear it anyways. ^_^

• Omodaka - Kokiriko Bushi
• Omodaka - Plum Song
• Omodaka - Fortunate 1 Mark
• Omodaka - Hietsuki Bushi