YMCK

Japanese electronic pop group YMCK formed in Tokyo in 2003 and quickly became flag carriers for Japanese chiptune, the electronic music subgenre based on eight-bit video game sounds. Consisting of vocalist Kurihara Midori, programmer Yokemura Takeshi, and video producer Nakamura Tomoyuki, the group combines the sounds of Nintendo game music with a kind of jazz-inflected pop that has its roots in the 1990s Shibuya-kei scene of artists like Flipper's Guitar, Cornelius, and Fantastic Plastic Machine. YMCK's first release was a self-released CD-R, which was later expanded to a ful...