Producer Spotlight : Yukkedoluce

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Yukkedoluce (黒髪さらさらロングP)

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Yukkedoluce (or yukke) is a newbie to the Vocaloid community, having uploaded his first song only this April. His style is still quite shaky but most of his songs border on alternative to rock, usually fast paced with unpredictable phrasing. He likes using a lot of guitars and drums, and is currently learning how to use the most of DTM. He also draws the art for all of his songs.

Yukke uses Miku as his only Vocaloid and is still learning on how to tune her to perfection. Most of the time, he tunes Miku a little too high, making his songs hard to cover (check Akari to Kagi). Recently, though, he's started toning Miku a little lower.

Aside from composing Vocaloid songs, Yukke has taken a liking to covering songs under another name "Dolucey".

works
• Kimi ga Suki
• Moumoku no Uchuu Hikoushi
• Akari to Kagi
• Reflect

covers
• glow (original by keeno)
• girlfriend (original by fullkawaP)


nikki says

I first encountered yukkedoluce in his first work which was amazingly covered by Asamaru. After translating the song, I instantly fell in love with it and decided to follow this person's works. I admit that at first I thought he was a girl and had these kawaii-kawaii talk with him before I listened to his namahousou and realized he's a 21-22 year-old guy ;_;. Nevertheless, outside his music, yukke tends to be a very random person but interesting nonetheless. You can find my translations of all of his songs here. :)

Also, he prefers to be called yukke, as doluce is, if I remember correctly, the name of his dog. If you go to his site and click Ayane (the girl), you'll end up seeing a page where he considers you a hentai because you clicked on Ayane ^^;

Utaite Spotlight: Kushi

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Kushi / Φ串Φ

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Kushi is a well-known singer in the Nico Nico Douga community, having started singing since 2007 and has been continuing to do so until now. She is also lesser known as a composer/lyricist for Team Aburitoro-don, a collab group that uploads Vocaloid songs. Outside the Vocaloid and Utattemita community, she also does covers of Sound Horizon songs. She also collabs with other composers to do indie and doujin works.

When Kushi uploaded her cover of Melt in 2007, her version gained quite a lot of attention which surprised her. Eventually she released more covers including another cover of Melt, this time arranged as a band edition. Her voice has a distinct 'roughness' which puts an edge in her covers. That combined with her wide range, made her well-loved and followed in the community.

Later on, she participated as a lyricist for Team Aburitoro-don and wrote for four songs, including the notorious Shinkirou no Janna. She also wrote the lyrics for Dasoku's song in the BL game Nessa no Rakuen.

You can watch Kushi sing live here.

covers
• Gekka no Himeuta (HatanoP)
• Monochroact (doriko)
• Packaged
• Kodoku no Hate (Hikari Syuyo)
• ACUTE -Reverse- with Kettaro and Beeeeige (KurousaP)
• Sakura no Zenya (HoehoeP)

works as part of Team Aburitoro-don's lyricist
• Hidalgo (Kagamine Len)
• Kokyuu (Gakupo)
• Shinkirou no Janna (Gakupo)
• Niji -hand in hand- (Hatsune Miku)


nikki says

I knew Kushi first as a composer and as a frequent guest in Dasoku's radio show sometime May 2009. She is quite a shy and quiet person, but has a good sense of humor. She has a lot of covers, although most of them are of really popular songs so she tends to get overshadowed a bit. Despite that, I like it when she sings more rockish songs as long as she doesn't overstrain her voice.