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Producer Spotlight: Bumpyurushi
Bumpyurushi / Bumpyうるし
mylist | youtube channel | piapro | website
Bumpyurushi is a veteran VocaloP, composing and rearranging Vocaloid songs since 2007. He is also known as YakiimoP (in hiragana) from his Miku song, "Yakiimo" (in katakana). You might know him from his very cute GUMI song, Wanwan-o!, which he also drew/animated himself.
Bumpyurushi's works are often dubbed as "trance", but I'm more inclined to think of it as general pop-ish electronica, unless he explicitly stated that it's a trance/techno mix. It can't be denied, however, that his songs are always rich in electronic rhythms and his slower songs have a hint of trance-like melodies in them. His songs are very broad in style. Some of them are cute electropop, some are serious trance-like melodies with haunting piano melodies, some are ethnic-inspired with electronic echoey melodies. Even the theme of his songs vary greatly. There are cute, cracked songs, usually animated and drawn by him, and then there are the surreal, serious songs. Such kind of variety represents the expertise and experience he has.
Despite starting with Hatsune Miku, Bumpyurushi has used a lot of other Vocaloids: Kagamine Rin, Kaito, Gakupo, GUMI, miki, CUL, and Yuzuki Yukari. As some of them are used by him only once, it's hard to define if he has a specific style in tuning. He also tunes them quite differently to match the theme of their songs. All of his Vocaloids, though, have an amazing way of singing in vibrato.
Aside from composing songs, he also plays the cello, as you can see in his cover of Salut d'Amour by Edward Elgar. He also plays the shamisen and kashaka. You can see his kashaka teachers playing the instrument in this video he uploaded. He also plays the cello for other producer's works, such as in YowaneP's Kago no Naka no Hinaryuu feat. Megurine Luka.
He is also part of Vocalomakets with PayaP, NiitoP, TakeponG, Kihee, KagomeP, and Azuma. Vocalomakets, a sub-unit of AHS, develops Vocaloid system with the inclusion of what VocaloPs look for in a Vocaloid. They have recently released Yuzuki Yukari, which is said to be one of the Vocaloids with a large usability range because of her impressive voicebank and voiceroid (for talking) version.
Bumpyurushi doesn't have his own album release, but has participated in compilation albums such as Try!, Nostalgia II ~Compilation of 13 Jewels~, and EXIT TUNES PRESENTS GUMIsm from Megpoid. He also has his own web/sound factory commission site Bumpy Factory, where he keeps track of web applications and original sounds that he develops.
sample songs
• Sora (Hatsune Miku)
• Asa no Jikan (Kagamine Rin)
• Lilith/Electro -Antiochal Mix- (Megurine Luka)
• Ryuuten ni Noboru (miki; shamisen/cello by Bumpyurushi, too)
• A・Re・Re (GUMI)
• Setsugetsuka (Yuzuki Yukari)
nikki says
When I was new to Vocaloid, I encountered Bumpyurushi's Yakiimo feat. Miku as one of my first Miku songs and while the song didn't stick much with me (it's a song about sweet potatoes and I don't like sweet potatoes much), the animation amused me so much. The next time I encountered his work was when I was looking for good Miki songs and stumbled upon Ryuuten ni Noboru, which is really a lovely song (yes, that has been two years since then). I thought he mostly does folk/ethnic-inspired songs so guess my surprise when I looked at his mylist and it's a beautiful, big salad of genre XD;. My favorite song by him will also be, definitely, Yuzuki Yukari's Setsugetsuka and it also remains my favorite Yukari song to date. I especially like how he managed to display all of Yukari's strength in the song, including the speaking part (you totally would think it's a person!), the versatility of switching ranges, and the heartfelt singing. It's a masterpiece that totally needs more attention (like Yukari herself). Ok, it's obvious I'm very biased towards Yukari so I will stop now XD;.
mylist | youtube channel | piapro | website
Bumpyurushi is a veteran VocaloP, composing and rearranging Vocaloid songs since 2007. He is also known as YakiimoP (in hiragana) from his Miku song, "Yakiimo" (in katakana). You might know him from his very cute GUMI song, Wanwan-o!, which he also drew/animated himself.
Bumpyurushi's works are often dubbed as "trance", but I'm more inclined to think of it as general pop-ish electronica, unless he explicitly stated that it's a trance/techno mix. It can't be denied, however, that his songs are always rich in electronic rhythms and his slower songs have a hint of trance-like melodies in them. His songs are very broad in style. Some of them are cute electropop, some are serious trance-like melodies with haunting piano melodies, some are ethnic-inspired with electronic echoey melodies. Even the theme of his songs vary greatly. There are cute, cracked songs, usually animated and drawn by him, and then there are the surreal, serious songs. Such kind of variety represents the expertise and experience he has.
Despite starting with Hatsune Miku, Bumpyurushi has used a lot of other Vocaloids: Kagamine Rin, Kaito, Gakupo, GUMI, miki, CUL, and Yuzuki Yukari. As some of them are used by him only once, it's hard to define if he has a specific style in tuning. He also tunes them quite differently to match the theme of their songs. All of his Vocaloids, though, have an amazing way of singing in vibrato.
Aside from composing songs, he also plays the cello, as you can see in his cover of Salut d'Amour by Edward Elgar. He also plays the shamisen and kashaka. You can see his kashaka teachers playing the instrument in this video he uploaded. He also plays the cello for other producer's works, such as in YowaneP's Kago no Naka no Hinaryuu feat. Megurine Luka.
He is also part of Vocalomakets with PayaP, NiitoP, TakeponG, Kihee, KagomeP, and Azuma. Vocalomakets, a sub-unit of AHS, develops Vocaloid system with the inclusion of what VocaloPs look for in a Vocaloid. They have recently released Yuzuki Yukari, which is said to be one of the Vocaloids with a large usability range because of her impressive voicebank and voiceroid (for talking) version.
Bumpyurushi doesn't have his own album release, but has participated in compilation albums such as Try!, Nostalgia II ~Compilation of 13 Jewels~, and EXIT TUNES PRESENTS GUMIsm from Megpoid. He also has his own web/sound factory commission site Bumpy Factory, where he keeps track of web applications and original sounds that he develops.
sample songs
• Sora (Hatsune Miku)
• Asa no Jikan (Kagamine Rin)
• Lilith/Electro -Antiochal Mix- (Megurine Luka)
• Ryuuten ni Noboru (miki; shamisen/cello by Bumpyurushi, too)
• A・Re・Re (GUMI)
• Setsugetsuka (Yuzuki Yukari)
nikki says
When I was new to Vocaloid, I encountered Bumpyurushi's Yakiimo feat. Miku as one of my first Miku songs and while the song didn't stick much with me (it's a song about sweet potatoes and I don't like sweet potatoes much), the animation amused me so much. The next time I encountered his work was when I was looking for good Miki songs and stumbled upon Ryuuten ni Noboru, which is really a lovely song (yes, that has been two years since then). I thought he mostly does folk/ethnic-inspired songs so guess my surprise when I looked at his mylist and it's a beautiful, big salad of genre XD;. My favorite song by him will also be, definitely, Yuzuki Yukari's Setsugetsuka and it also remains my favorite Yukari song to date. I especially like how he managed to display all of Yukari's strength in the song, including the speaking part (you totally would think it's a person!), the versatility of switching ranges, and the heartfelt singing. It's a masterpiece that totally needs more attention (like Yukari herself). Ok, it's obvious I'm very biased towards Yukari so I will stop now XD;.
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I wish his YT channel got more attention, rather than all those mirror-uploaders'... I know NND can be slow if you're not in Japan, but they should self-regulate the videos of people who have YT channels.