Kikuo! I love how his music perfectly nails the feeling of uneasy emotions like anxiety and helplessness. He uses Miku for all his songs and I adore how he tunes her and keeps her voice at a somewhat lower pitch.
His YT channel because I gotta shout my GOAT out lol: https://m.youtube.com/@kikuo_sound
I originally hated the sound of vocaloids, and avoided both vocaloid music and the culture around their personas.
I eventually heard Sad Machine by Porter Robinson, and it instantly became one of my favorite pieces of music. It uses the AVANNA vocaloid voicebank.
Realising I liked the sound, I went looking for more.
Today my favorite artist by far is Clean Tears. The way he adds breath noises between vocals somehow makes the robotic sound of a voicebank so much more natural. A great example.
Others I listen to regularly are Kanzaki Hiro, Crusher-P, Inabakumori and 23.exe.
My story is oddly similar, except it was “Fresh Static Snow” off of the same album. I asked a friend of mine who was way more into anime at the time about what this whole vocaloid thing was about.
I then got WAY into project diva, which was a rabbit hole into more vocaloid once I got tired of playing the same songs over and over.
In no particular order: KIRA, Utsu-P, DECO*27, Giga, Wowaka and, Mitchie M. They all have different sounds and it depends on what I’m feeling at that time. I tend to like the more upbeat, electronica sounding vocaloid tracks though.
cosMo@BousouP
I like Vocaloids because they don’t sound natural. Like, you got someone who is not human to sing, might as well as go crazy. Not that I don’t like the ones that don’t do this, but I feel like it’s a missed opportunity. I love the robotic feel his music gives. My favourite is Hatsune Creation Myth, which is by him too.
I love how fast cosMo@BousouP’s songs are! Although it was super hard, I enjoyed playing his songs on Project Sekai.
