Somewhere between GitS2: Innocence, Key: The Medal Idol, Rozen Maiden, Hoihoi-san and Luke Vibert was my inspiration for this.  I made it for a robo-girl-themed album, but decided not to include it as its wooden & metallic hiphop clashed a little too much.

I had a lot of fun playing with Ableton Live's physical modelling synthesizers.

Wind-Up Doll in Love

Soundtrack for a game: https://twitter.com/renzumusic

Cover art: https://twitter.com/MRN0093/status/1641397412324601856

Aomori (WIP)

image credit: http://myfigurecollection.net/picture/665421

It's no surprise that I've been procrastinating. To get out of this funk, I'm trying to put together little song sketches, crawling back up to music making competency.

sketch #1: Lily

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dat purple

sketch #2: Lavender Lace

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sketch #3: Path of Lanterns

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sketch #5: Emerald Gaze

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sketch #6: Demon Sister

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sketch #7: Flutter

arpeggiator + glide = old Japanese techno.

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sketch #8: Dat Old Japanese Techno

Lavender Lace (WIP)

It's the end-all-be-all of Vocaloid: Megurine Luka does a cover of Boyz n the Hood (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_UB5QRFW4U">1</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywmMO8iilaE">2</a>) with some guitar work thanks to <a href="http://soundcloud.com/mmvsusaf">MMvsUSAF</a>.

Woke up quick at about noon
Just thought that I had to be in Compton soon
I got to get drunk before the day begins
Before my mother starts bitching about my friends

About to go and damn near went blind
Young niggaz on the path throwing up gang signs
I went in the house to get the clip
With my Mac-10 on the side of my hip

I bailed outside and pointed my weapon
And just as I thought, the fools kept stepping
I jumped in the fo' hit the juice on my ride
I got front and back side to side

Then I let the alpine play
I was pumping new shit by NWA
It was "Gangster Gangster" at the top of the list
Then I played my own shit, it went something like this:

Cruising down the street in my '64
Jocking the bitches, slapping the hos
I went to the park to get the scoop
Knuckleheads out there cold shooting some hoop

A car pulls up, who can it be?
With a fresh El Camino rolling Kilo G
He rolls down the window and he starts to say:
Yo it's all about making that G.T.A.

Cuz the boyz in the hood are always hard
You come talking that trash and we'll pull your card
Knowing nothing in life but to be legit
Don't quote me boy, I ain't said shit...

Bored as hell and I wanna get ill
So I go to the place where my homeboyz chill
The fellas out there trying to make that dollar
I pulled up in the '64 Impala

They greet me with a 40 and I start drinking
And from the 8-ball my breath start stinking
I gotta get my girl to rock that body
Before I left I hit the Bacardi

Pulled to the house get her out of the pad
The bitch said something to make me mad
She said something that I couldn't believe
So I grabbed that stupid bitch by her nappy-ass weave

She started talking shit, wouldn't you know?
I reached back like a pimp and slapped the ho
And her father stood up and he started to shout
So I threw a right cross and knocked his old ass out

Cuz the boyz in the hood are always hard
You come talking that trash and we'll pull your card
Knowing nothing in life but to be legit
Don't quote me boy, I ain't said shit

Boyz n the Hood (with Megurine Luka) 【巡音ルカ】 (cover)

Part of the album "Infinitesimal" by Renzu
http://www.seanny.net/infinitesimal

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To Your Satisfaction

Out of Reach

art used: http://pixiv.net/i/57426928

"No matter what, there will always be a distance between people, and even between things that seem within ones' reach. And that one must walk down a long, thin and winding road before they reach one's heart. There's tons of obstacles. It's in fact like the roads in towns of old." — Mitsuo Iso, creator of Dennou Coil

sketch #10: Roads of Old

Based on the anime, Ikoku Meiro no Croisée. Being a show about a kimono-clad Japanese girl who arrives in Paris during the height of 19th-century "Japonism", you can imagine how it pushed all of my buttons.

Somewhat similar to <a href="http://soundcloud.com/renzu/wind-up-doll-in-love" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Wind-Up Doll in Love</a> and <a href="http://www.archive.org/download/foot096/foot096_05-renzu-amasawa.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Amasawa</a>

Through a Foreign Labyrinth

A rare high-BPM excursion with frantic, percussive drums.

Haru

Another hyper-dense studio thing.
Bonus feature: http://soundcloud.com/renzu/kamui-vocals
Remix: http://soundcloud.com/markingdude/kamui-tranquilo-mix

Kamui

Some stuff I made using the web toy, Gridplay. It lets you sequence patterns using sample sets chosen by (in this case) Bunkai-Kei artists. It's kinda fun.

<a href="http://soundcloud.com/nyolfen">Nyolfen</a> set (http://gridplay.jp/#/user4134.NYOLFEN)
http://gridplay.jp/#/9560 "Jimmy Edgar"
http://gridplay.jp/#/9779 "Wait For It"
http://gridplay.jp/#/9861 "Robomaid Awaits Your Command"
http://gridplay.jp/#/9765 "Ruiner of Jams"
http://gridplay.jp/#/9857 "SND Up in This Bitch"
http://gridplay.jp/#/9860 "Excuse the Offset"
http://gridplay.jp/#/9786 "Collab. Jazz"

Phasma set (http://gridplay.jp/#/user4134.PHASMA)
http://gridplay.jp/#/9563 "Straylight"
http://gridplay.jp/#/9820 "Azn"
http://gridplay.jp/#/9858 "Seanny Is Back Wid a Brand New Invention... Called Disco"

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Gridplay.jp Patterns

This is what happens when that infernal "Attack on Titan" theme song gets stuck in my head

I make vivid and sometimes Japanesque electronic music.

Renzu

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