@jazleneebbostwick: There are no vocals , but thanks anyway

Très chouette titre et fabuleuse mélodie aussi !

EMU
Music by Overdrive
Lyrics by TN2

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EMU stands for "emulator" in Information Technology. The track is inspired by the cyberpunk culture of Japanese anime/manga, especially the classics Akira and Ghost in the Shell.

The idea was completely insane -- to produce an industrial/cyberpunk track sung in Japanese by a female vocalist with a very soft voice (to contrast with the dark atmosphere). The first time I verbalized this concept with someone, it sounded even weirder. So it's no surprise that none of the numerous Japanese female singers I invited accepted the proposal.

It's true that Japan is known for its innovative musical ideas -- like the death metal band Baby (with three little girls as singers); or the virtual singer Hatsune Miku (a hologram with synthesized vocals) and so on. But industrial music with female vocals is not a common occurrence. Björk and How To Destroy Angels are some of the few exceptions in the music world. And without a Japanese singer, the EMU project would never get off the ground.

Fortunately, Dreamtonics' artificial intelligence synthesized voices and its amazing Synthesizer V software are getting better and better, and I was able to use the sweet voice of Mai, a synthetic voice package created for J-pop (!).

This work wouldn't have been possible without the invaluable help of TN2 (Toku-no-2ri), group that wrote the lyrics in Japanese. Their extraordinary sense of musicality in the choice of phonemes during the creation of the lyrics proved to be a very pleasant surprise. Japanese kanji are famous for their ability to embed multiple meanings in their symbols and the first draft of TN2's lyrics was written in kanji (later rewritten in hiragana to feed Synthesizer V). The apparently simple verses carry several meanings that are unfortunately lost in the English translation.

TN2, or "Toku-no-2ri", is a psychedelic trance unit of "MASH" and "NORI". They had been inactive for a few years, but restarted the project in 2021. The group has formidable composers and I recommend checking out their incredible electronic music tracks available for free download on SC:
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Hope you enjoy the track.

LYRICS

ささやきにしげきされ
しょうどおがかけめぐる
やみにうもれたひびに
ひのひかりときはなて

だれもがゆめをみてる
さめることのないゆめ
とわにとらわれている
とわにとらわれている

[Ghost in the Shell narration]

すべてがまぼろしでも
あなたのねがいはなに
とわにとらわれること
それともめざめること

だからおしえてほしい
わたしがだれであるか
あなたがめざめるなら
わたしはうたをうたう

ENGLISH TRANSLATION

Stimulated by whispers
An impulse runs through me
In the days buried in darkness
Release the sunlight

Everyone is dreaming
A dream that never wakes up
Trapped forever
Trapped forever

[Ghost in the Shell narration]

Life is like a nodal point born in an overwhelming sea of information.

And life, when organized into species relies upon genes to be its memory system.

So, man is an individual memory system only because of his intangible memory.

And a memory cannot be defined, but it defines mankind.

When the advent of computers made the externalization of memories possible, you should have taken its meaning more seriously.

My code name is Project 2501.

I am a living, thinking entity who was created in the sea of information.

[End of Narration]

Even if everything is an illusion
What is your wish?
To be trapped forever?
Or to wake up?

That's why I want you to tell me
Who I am
If you wake up
I sing a song

Life

All Trenic songs are set in the same post-apocalyptic universe. 
A woman expresses her feelings about what it is like to live in this world.

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It's a hobby now and I'm not active in the music thing, I have been writing electronic music for over 2 decades, my music has been on CD-ROMs, video games, independent productions, commercial speaker packages (COZO speakers of Japan), etc. etc. 

	I have been writing under a pseudonym, Kryptonic, since 1999.  I started writing my own original music starting in 1989.  With the increasing ubiquity of the Internet, I went from amateur to professional (used to get paid for it) in a very short amount of time. I specialize in electronica music, but I am not restricted to just that genre.  I also write orchestral, film, and world music as well as dance, EDM, trance, and everything in between.

I’ve developed these skills over a long period of time and long hours , my secret formula to producing and writing music is so secret even I don’t know how I do it to be honest.  It’s just an affinity, the grace of God and a lot of hard work and time. 

* sometimes it involves making a lot of mistakes and foibles but choosing the right mistakes somehow makes things work, it takes 10,000 hours to master anything and even then you're still accumulating knowledge and technique. That's approx 30 years of fiddling around. 

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