New MOSAIC.WAV self-cover album, early Japan Expo media

Well it was bound to happen someday. Online retailers such as amazon and HMV have begun accepting preorders for 「MOSAIC.WAV×鶴田加茂 feat.初音ミク」, a self-cover album featuring vocals by Hatsune Miku (and presumably mi~ko herself as well) set to come out on October 21st 2009. They actually announced this at their May 30th Tokyo show, playing a few of these covers for the occasion, but somehow this escaped me completely since it did not show up on most of my usual news sources. Although ave;new beat them to the punch when they released new;fable in mid-April 2009, this should still be pretty cool, as long as they give their older songs a new twist (and hopefully sneak in a few new songs on there too).

Did you know that 「最高ψ最強φメロダロイド!」, the only "proper" MOSAIC.WAV song to feature Hatsune Miku was actually composed by 磯村カイ, aka TONAKAI Sound Works, aka the other half of LOVExBULLETS? Of course you did. The "other" Miku song was 「×××にできるかな」, a bonus song which was made available for the lucky folks who preordered the February 2008 「ラストバトル! アキバトラー''μ''」 single in stores. Incidentally, the "miku manipulator" for that song was 鶴田加茂 (nickname: ika), who then went on to compose two more of their songs. As you probably gathered from the (temporary) self-cover album's title, he will be in charge of all Miku programming.

A few interesting pictures and videos featuring MOSAIC.WAV have begun to make their way online, though we don't have a proper live performance segment yet. I'm in contact with a few beret-wearing Frenchmen, but it looks as though cameras weren't allowed for the occasion (they usually aren't). But if anything does show up, you can be sure it'll pop up here. Until then, we have a few high-quality live pictures (merci ChrisCB) as well as a kooky group performance of niconico's classic medley "Kumikyoku", featuring MOSAIC.WAV members + tie-wearing translator (is that you, ino?) on the right side.

Update: No videos still, but I have confirmation that a crew from nolife.tv was on stage with professional video equipment and direct access to the sound console, so they could be churning out something sweet any moment. Also I should have mentioned this earlier but mi~ko kept blogging diligently even as she was in France. She has a ton of pictures up as well as some hilarious little keitai videos that usually end up with her crashing into kayapi's golden locks. By her own admission, their live set was somewhat disorderly and felt strange to her; mostly due to the enormous, empty stage (aniki was not on hand), but she did feel that their new found fans warmed up to them immediately.