Aira Mitsuki

Like a variety of other J-pop singers, Aira Mitsuki was found with a production company via an audition. She was instantly teamed up with manufacturer Onishi Terukado who crafted her vocoder-heavy, techno-pop-influenced dance music audio drawing immediate evaluations with the task of well-known pop idol trio Perfume and their manufacturer Nakata Yasutaka of Capsule. Debut one “Colourful Tokyo Noises No.9” developed a buzz in the music scene and set up Aira’s profile as an up-and-coming singer through a advertising tie-in with the summertime 2007 discharge from the Transformers movie. It had been the follow-up, having by this time around secured main distribution, that pressed Aira further in to the open public eye, using the Sinophilic one “China Discotica” released simply with time for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, with debut record COPY (a mention of techno-pop pioneers the Plastics) pursuing up afterwards the same season and handling to graph in Japan’s Oricon search positions for the very first time. The competition to follow through to this success started instantly using the Oct discharge of “Automatic robot Honey,” that was utilized as the finishing theme of it present Robotsuki. 2009 started using the discharge of “Sayonara Technopolis,” where Aira continuing her noble custom of referencing traditional ’80s techno-pop rings in the game titles of her produces (in cases like this Yellowish Magic Orchestra). May noticed “Barbie Barbie” concrete a change in image through the retro-futurist techno warrior of her debut record towards the “electro Barbie doll” that could characterize her 2009 incarnation. Summertime 2009 saw the discharge of Aira’s sophomore record, Plastic (the name referencing both Plastics and her brand-new Barbie doll picture this time around), which noticed an enlargement of her musical palette, including a small number of collaborations with various other performers and flirtations with styles next to electro, such as for example hip-hop and big defeat. The effect was a far more textured, constant, and well-rounded recording, although also one missing the immediate pop punch of the “China Discotica.”