Just a quick look at the retro-futurism obsessed Electronica artist, Aira Mitsuki. Her ‘Colourful Tokyo Sounds No. 9′ single was used in the Japanese soundtrack of Transformers (the 07 film). I’d love to see how they fitted it in, considering how bubbly the song is. xD More, including music and video after the jump.
Aira’s music sounds a LOT like Perfume. I don’t know if it was intentional but Perfume’s 2008 album is called GAME and Aira’s, released later in the year, is called COPY. Either way, both are a lot of fun, and are classed as ‘J-Tek’, which is short for Japanese Techno. Where i’m from, Techno sounds nothing like this. I’d class it more as Electronica. My favourite Aira song is Candy Raid Mode, how can you not love a song with the line “Marie Antoinette-o, Kandi Rai-do Modo!“? Let them eat candy!
Candy Raid Mode [03:27m]
China Discotica [04:44m]
GALAXY BOY [04:24m]
As well as her music being heavily electronic, the way she presents herself in her videos and many promotional photos (ironically not the ones on this article) is very retro-futuristic. Aira often sports Back to the Future 2 style wrap around shades, seethrough macs on top of clothes, wears miscelaneous wires and wears altogether too much neon. In her videos she is either dressed up like an android, driving a spaceship or both. ^_^ In the songs where her voice isn’t vocodered to hell you discover she has an adorable lisp <3 I’d like to hear more of this as a lisping Japanese space adventure girl is one of the best things ever concieved.
Interesting links for Aira Mitsuki:
Aira’s Blog
Official Website
Official Myspace Page
Page at Wikipedia
Originally posted 4th Sep 2008
The last picture looks so kawaii :3
Also cute song.