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Producer Spotlight: Sasakure.UK
SasakureP / ささくれP
mylist | website | piapro | UMAA profile
Mostly known as Sasakure.UK, a name he had coined himself, SasakureP is a well-known Vocaloid producer as well as a Be-Music Script composer (the music scripts for rhythm games), who has been contributing hit after hit in the Vocaloid community since 2008. There's probably no one, even a new fan, in the Vocaloid community who doesn't know him, and that says something about the sheer popularity of all his songs.
SasakureP is known as a chiptune VocaloP, although that is only one facet of his music. His songs range from ambient to cutesy pop to progressive rock, almost all of them laced with a chiptunish pointilist beat similar to old school video games which had initially inspired him to pursue music. He has high music sense, evident in how his music are so varied yet so "him" at the same time. He is also known for being wildly unpredictable with his melody, for all the time his songs would have drastic but incredibly well-balanced rhythm changes. While his songs can be a bit rowdy, they aren't hard on the ears because they're all toned down to sound gentle, soft, and slightly muffled to the ears, with well-blended beats that make them extremely catchy.
There are many songs that can be attributed to SasakureP's fame, since his whole mylist has more than 50,000 views, some even reaching to more than a million. However, he is probably mostly known for his dystopian series "Vocaloid wa Shuumatsu no Tori wo Miru ka?" (Do Vocaloids Dream of Doomsday Bird?). This is a series of five songs (the last one being part of his album) which talks about the world's destruction because of an ongoing war. The title is a tribute of one of Philip K. Dick's novels "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?". All the songs in this series are chiptune intensive cutesy songs with minimal ochestraic BGM but with sad, nostalgic lyrics. The album of the same title, which have more songs and remixes related to the theme, is also SasakureP's major debut album.
SasakureP has used quite a number of Vocaloids although his most-used are Hatsune Miku and Kagamine Rin. He has used Luka a single time and recently, he has taken a liking to using GUMI. All of his Vocaloids are tuned thinly high (except for GUMI), but not screechy. Most of the time, they're given a whispery, breathy effect to match the aura of his songs. Despite the slightly distorted voices, his Vocaloids are tuned so dexterously that they always sing the words clearly.
Aside from composing and tuning, Sasakure's also pretty good at drawing and making videos. The first half of his songs have PVs all made by him. His art are either 2d old school game-ish or portraits with soft, gentle brushes of color.
Since his debut as a major artist, SasakureP has been releasing stuff under UMAA, sometimes in collaboration with fellow producers DECO*27 and kous (DEKOUS*UK). He has also worked in remixes/composing for professional release like Becca's album, Shimizu Ai's album and recently, for the NiER Gestalt's tribute album "NieR Tribute Album -echo-" and Seventh Dragon 2020's theme song. He has also released five doujin album releases. With his repertoire of popular and unique releases, SasakureP is considered one of the most popular Vocaloid producers and it has been must to introduce his songs to every new Vocaloid fan.
sample songs
A. Do Vocaloids Dream of Doomsday Bird Series
• Shuumatsu ga Yattekuru! (Rin)
• Bokura no 16-bit Sensou (GUMI)
• The Wanderlast (Luka)
• Hello Planet (Miku)
B. Others
• Haru no Haruka (Miku)
• Nijiiro Adventure (Miku)
• Lost and Found (Miku)
• Tiger Rampage (Rin)
nikki says
To be honest, I'm not a fan of chiptune, so I wasn't attached to SasakureP's works at first, probably also because I'm not fond of Miku's high voice. But it can't be denied that he's a wonderfully talented person and he can make a repetitive beat burst into a multitude of interesting sounds within just a few seconds into the songs. What got me into liking his works was "Wanderlast" and "Bokura no 16-bit Sensou" and from there, I found out that listening to his works over and over and in a certain order sometimes is quite pleasing. More than Vocaloid, I find myself attached to his indie/instrumental works only because I can hear him make something like acid jazz or songs with Celtic/traditional feel. One good example to show how good he is at composing songs in various genre is his instrumental track Jack-the-Ripper◆, which reminded me of Yuki Kajiura so much.
mylist | website | piapro | UMAA profile
Mostly known as Sasakure.UK, a name he had coined himself, SasakureP is a well-known Vocaloid producer as well as a Be-Music Script composer (the music scripts for rhythm games), who has been contributing hit after hit in the Vocaloid community since 2008. There's probably no one, even a new fan, in the Vocaloid community who doesn't know him, and that says something about the sheer popularity of all his songs.
SasakureP is known as a chiptune VocaloP, although that is only one facet of his music. His songs range from ambient to cutesy pop to progressive rock, almost all of them laced with a chiptunish pointilist beat similar to old school video games which had initially inspired him to pursue music. He has high music sense, evident in how his music are so varied yet so "him" at the same time. He is also known for being wildly unpredictable with his melody, for all the time his songs would have drastic but incredibly well-balanced rhythm changes. While his songs can be a bit rowdy, they aren't hard on the ears because they're all toned down to sound gentle, soft, and slightly muffled to the ears, with well-blended beats that make them extremely catchy.
There are many songs that can be attributed to SasakureP's fame, since his whole mylist has more than 50,000 views, some even reaching to more than a million. However, he is probably mostly known for his dystopian series "Vocaloid wa Shuumatsu no Tori wo Miru ka?" (Do Vocaloids Dream of Doomsday Bird?). This is a series of five songs (the last one being part of his album) which talks about the world's destruction because of an ongoing war. The title is a tribute of one of Philip K. Dick's novels "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?". All the songs in this series are chiptune intensive cutesy songs with minimal ochestraic BGM but with sad, nostalgic lyrics. The album of the same title, which have more songs and remixes related to the theme, is also SasakureP's major debut album.
SasakureP has used quite a number of Vocaloids although his most-used are Hatsune Miku and Kagamine Rin. He has used Luka a single time and recently, he has taken a liking to using GUMI. All of his Vocaloids are tuned thinly high (except for GUMI), but not screechy. Most of the time, they're given a whispery, breathy effect to match the aura of his songs. Despite the slightly distorted voices, his Vocaloids are tuned so dexterously that they always sing the words clearly.
Aside from composing and tuning, Sasakure's also pretty good at drawing and making videos. The first half of his songs have PVs all made by him. His art are either 2d old school game-ish or portraits with soft, gentle brushes of color.
Since his debut as a major artist, SasakureP has been releasing stuff under UMAA, sometimes in collaboration with fellow producers DECO*27 and kous (DEKOUS*UK). He has also worked in remixes/composing for professional release like Becca's album, Shimizu Ai's album and recently, for the NiER Gestalt's tribute album "NieR Tribute Album -echo-" and Seventh Dragon 2020's theme song. He has also released five doujin album releases. With his repertoire of popular and unique releases, SasakureP is considered one of the most popular Vocaloid producers and it has been must to introduce his songs to every new Vocaloid fan.
sample songs
A. Do Vocaloids Dream of Doomsday Bird Series
• Shuumatsu ga Yattekuru! (Rin)
• Bokura no 16-bit Sensou (GUMI)
• The Wanderlast (Luka)
• Hello Planet (Miku)
B. Others
• Haru no Haruka (Miku)
• Nijiiro Adventure (Miku)
• Lost and Found (Miku)
• Tiger Rampage (Rin)
nikki says
To be honest, I'm not a fan of chiptune, so I wasn't attached to SasakureP's works at first, probably also because I'm not fond of Miku's high voice. But it can't be denied that he's a wonderfully talented person and he can make a repetitive beat burst into a multitude of interesting sounds within just a few seconds into the songs. What got me into liking his works was "Wanderlast" and "Bokura no 16-bit Sensou" and from there, I found out that listening to his works over and over and in a certain order sometimes is quite pleasing. More than Vocaloid, I find myself attached to his indie/instrumental works only because I can hear him make something like acid jazz or songs with Celtic/traditional feel. One good example to show how good he is at composing songs in various genre is his instrumental track Jack-the-Ripper◆, which reminded me of Yuki Kajiura so much.
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I think I liked a bunch of his songs but never realized that...he was the one behind them XD (hmnnggh like Nakimushi Pippy)
never really listened to his doujin stuff so I'll go checky~~
woahhh that's some nice strings there *A* <3
I do like how his songs all sound different but have the same strain of sasakure-ness
mhmmm *~~* sasakure yayyy <333
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My favorite out of all his works is Bokura no 16-bit sensou too xD
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(Anonymous) 2011-10-08 08:15 pm (UTC)(link)so far, i've only listened to his vocaloid stuff! now that i know he has other works, i'll try to listen to them too! X3
thanks for the info and otsu again!
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sorry for the multiple comments 8D;;;;
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(Anonymous) 2011-10-09 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)They are not drawn by Sasakure.UK. They're drawn by an artist named 茶ころ/Chacorl.
http://puna.bona.jp/
http://dic.nicovideo.jp/a/%E8%8C%B6%E3%81%93%E3%82%8D
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http://dic.nicovideo.jp/a/%E3%81%95%E3%81%95%E3%81%8F%E3%82%8Cp
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