A Vocaloid thread on Hacker News? Today is a weird day. Here's the most impressive Vocaloid song/video I've seen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkLJoFp2UAE h

A Vocaloid thread on Hacker News? Today is a weird day. Here's the most impressive Vocaloid song/video I've seen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkLJoFp2UAE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkLJoFp2UAE EDIT: From the artist's bio: "Mitchie M is a relatively new producer who became popular due to his very realistic tuning of Hatsune Miku. His name is derived from The Jimi Hendrix Experience's drummer, Mitch Mitchell, and originally was "Mitchiell Mitchie" before shortening it. He started composing songs in high school in a band which made covers. However, he wanted to write his own songs. His biggest influence is Tom Jobim. He uses Logic Pro 9 to compose his songs. Mitchie M's popularity is steady with most of his videos quickly gaining at least 200,000+ views." This hints at part of the magic of Vocaloid: It gives the inexperienced, unknown, or unconnected a pitch-perfect (if a bit robotic-sounding) vocalist to experiment with, significantly expanding the range of genres a lone musician can cover. The take a relative "outsider" can have on pop music is very interesting, something of a middle ground between "mass-produced"/"commercialized" pop and the more experimental, "underground" electronic music you usually hear from solo acts.