Animated Stevie Wonderfied Chiptune Folk Song FTW
The oldest known folk song of Japan is called Kokiriko-Bushi. Villagers in secluded Gokayama used to perform it in honor of local Shinto deities.
A wonderfully daft electro-pop wizard who goes by Omodaka came up with the idea to revamp the song with chiptune vocals and Stevie Wonder-isms. He then handed the track over to the equally wonderfully daft animator Teppei Makki, sick who made the following video. It features a breakdancing marionette skeleton cutting a rug with a dexterous disembodied hand and assorted Residents reminiscent eyeball-headed women at the cosmic discotheque. Enjoy:
(Via Pink Tentacle by way of Bram Clark.)
January 9th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
Sexy =) I may have seen on ectomo before, really fun animation.
January 9th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Ha, really? Tch. I often do a pre-post googling to avoid unnecessary overlap with those filthy miscreants. Neither “Omodaka” or “Teppei Makki” yielded results, so I figured I was safe. If my bloated corpse washes up under the docks a few days hence with suction cup marks and scrawled TMBG lyrics all over it, you’ll know who was retaliating.
January 10th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
Well that improved my mood. Catchy.