Kpop: Heyne - Love Cells (연애세포)

It was quite some time ago since I last wrote about Heyne, ie at her debut back in 2013, and already then I noted that her voice has a kind of love it/hate it sound, and it is even more true with "Love Cells" which utilizes/worsens her cutesy singing in a nostalgic (I'd say 80s even though her label says 90s) track with the expected summer/love theme in both text and video.

• Heyne - Love Cells (연애세포)

Jpop: Mizuki Nana (水樹奈々)

Lovely Mizuki Nana is a well established voice actress and singer from Japan, but what I really like in the new "Superman" is the humor she displays. She shines like a sun really!

• Mizuki Nana - Super☆man
• Mizuki Nana - Exterminate
• Mizuki Nana - Angel Blossom
• Mizuki Nana & T.M. Revolution - Revolutionary Dualism (革命デュアリズム)
• Mizuki Nana - Forbidden Resistance (禁断のレジスタンス)
• Mizuki Nana - Appasionato (アパッショナート)

Jpop: Piko (ピコ/両声類)

Piko has been acclaimed in Japan for having a voice which isnt decidedly male or female, and he has the looks to match it. He is what we would call androgynous,and the fans call him 両声類, which means "both kinds of voice". Interestingly enough he has also lent his voice to the Vocaloid (the Utatane Piko).

• Piko - Tears In
• Piko - Nisokuhokou (here his duality is easy to detect)
• Piko - Sakurane
• Piko - Make My Day! 
• Piko - Story
• Piko - Emiiro Refrain

Jpop: Perfume (パフューム)

Perfume is one of the Japanese groups that has reached a certain recognition outside Japan (for example, they featured in the latest Disney Cars (its Polyrhythm) movie). Started in 2001, the three female members has become known for their sound which is a electropop sound that heavily relies on vocoders and auto-tune, something that predictable has earned them negative critique from those that says it is not "real" music. Which it of course is. The main "culprit" behind this sound is Yasutaka Nakata, who also founded Capsule, but it is with Perfume he really went mainstream (for comparison, see Perfume before(2002) and after(2004) and then later (2005) ). My view is that they make quite stylish music that is quite likable. It *can* get a little bit to much of the same at times, but I always come back for them when I want something harmonic and relaxing.

• Perfume - Spring of life (スプリングオブライフ)
• Perfume - Spending all my time (english single)
• Perfume - Spice (スパイス)
• Perfume - Laser beam (レーザービーム/微かなカオ)
• Perfume - 1mm
• Perfume - Display
• Perfume - Sweet Refrain
• Perfume - Nee (ねぇ)
• Perfume - Voice (ヴォイス)
• Perfume - Fushizen na girl (不自然なガール)
• Perfume - Flash
• Perfume - Cling Cling
• Perfume - Natural ni Koi Shite (ナチュラルに恋して)
• Perfume - One Room Disco (ワンルーム・ディスコ)
• Perfume - Dream Fighter (ドリーム・ファイター)
• Perfume - Love World (ラヴ・ザ・ワールド)
• Perfume - Baby Cruising Love (ベイビー・クルージング・ラヴ/マカロニ)
• Perfume - Polyrhythm (ポリリズム,live)
• Perfume - Chocolate disco (チョコレイト・ディスコ)
• Perfume - Twinkle snow powdery snow
• Perfume - Electro World (エレクトロ・ワールド)
• Perfume - Computer City (コンピューターシティ)
• Perfume - Linear Motor Girl(リニアモーターガール)
• And some more live performances: here, here and here. And a sweet interview.