Talkbox

Description

Piloted by the Vocaloid software synthesizer that was used to create the theme of Nyan Cat, "Talkbox" is essentially whimsical meme music Italo-disco. Post-Max Tundra.
The Londoner Michael O'Mahony stumbled upon the Vocaloid voice synthesis software while looking to learn more about the music of Nyan Cat. This discovery sparked an obsession that led him to write "Talkbox" using a version of the software capable of singing only in Japanese. Relying on Google Translate for guidance, O'Mahony used BBC reports on football matches to fuel his early experiments, gathering a library of sung syllables and phonetic sounds that he ultimately used to create the melodies of the album. If you can't imagine what that sounds like, picture a set of rudimentary electro-pop beats with Hatsune Miku's voices half-muffled on top.