Torque x urumeiwashi revive Tatsuro Yamashita's famous song "Atom no Ko"! “Newtro” 23rd song MV released

■”I arranged it with my own style of music called tropical house in mind” (Torque), “I felt the ‘Atom’ of the current era” (urumeiwashi)

“Newtro”, a “revival” music project that reconstructs Japan’s proud masterpieces, has released the music video for their 23rd song “Atom no Ko x Torque feat.urumeiwashi”.

The song that has been revived this time is “Atom no Ko”, one of Tatsuro Yamashita’s famous songs, which has been used as the theme song for various programs and commercial songs, and is still listened to by a wide range of generations.

As a tribute song to Japanese manga artist Osamu Tezuka, Vocaloid P’s Torque, who also provides music to idol groups and artists, has created this song with the motif of “Astro Boy” as “Along with Transparency”. With this theme, we invited urumeiwashi, a singer who is active as an internet singer and a variety of creators on SNS, to be a featured vocalist and reconstruct it. The music video illustration was done by honoka.

■Torque Comment
This time, I covered Tatsuro Yamashita’s “Atom no Ko,” and it’s a song that I have a lot of fond memories of.It was an insert song in a movie that I really liked when I was young, and when I heard about Newtro this time, I remembered this song and thought I’d like to cover it, so I chose it.
The original song had an image of the freshness and sadness of the summer sea, and in order to express that in my own way, I arranged it with my own style of tropical house music in mind.
I felt that the original song had an impressive percussion sound throughout the song, so I tried to express the percussion part entirely with synth sounds.
I would like you to listen to it and compare it with the original song.

■urumeiwashi comment
The atmosphere of the original song is completely different, and the use of fantastic sounds is very Newtro-like, and I felt like the current era of Astro Boy.
I also think that listening to the respect for the original song sprinkled throughout the song is nostalgic and fun, which is the key point.
I was particular about creating it without adding too much color to match Torque’s futuristic sound.
I also felt the youth’s refreshing strength in the song, so I was conscious of expressing that in my voice as I sang.