Genki Rockets (元気ロケッツ, Genki Rockets?) is a hybrid band made up of unnamed musical artists. The face of the group is a fictional character named Lumi, an 18-year old girl who was born in s...

Genki Rockets (元気ロケッツ, Genki Rockets?) is a hybrid band made up of unnamed musical artists. The face of the group is a fictional character named Lumi, an 18-year old girl who was born in space on September 11 2037 and has never been to Earth.

Most of the people behind Genki Rockets remain a mystery, but two known producers behind the band are Tetsuya Mizuguchi of Q Entertainment and musician Kenji Tamai of Agehasprings Corporation, who has produced other musicians and groups such as YUKI, Yuna Ito, Base Ball Bear, and TRF.

BIO

The group has released two songs so far. Tetsuya Mizuguchi co-produced and wrote the lyrics for the first song, Heavenly Star, and directed the music video, which debuted in the video game Lumines II and later appeared in the game No More Heroes. An AAC version of the song began selling on the iTunes Store in December of 2006 and was eventually accompanied by several different remixes of the song from various artists such as metalmouse, Headwaters, TECHRIDERS, and DJ Sodeyama (the Count Down, Glorious, Love, Space Walk, Sunrise, Aurora, Floating, and LnM Projekt remixes). The original song, seven remixes, and the second song, Breeze, saw release as a maxi single on July 4, 2007. The single peaked at #24 on the Oricon charts and stayed on the charts for 15 weeks. In September of 2007, Breeze received its own standalone single and video and was later remixed into several incarnations. In October of 2007 a "Heavenly Star" Trance Remix single was released on 12" vinyl by Avex Trax's sublabel Rhythm Republic featuring remixes by Overhead Champion, Delaction and DJ Ten.

Uniqueness

Genki Rockets is unique in that it is a band composed entirely of unnamed musicians and that their music videos are entirely computer-generated, including the band's lead character, Lumi. The visuals are created by Japan's Glamoove, Inc.They are also unique in solely using holograms for live performances, such as their performance at Live Earth.

However, Genki Rockets is similar to the virtual band Gorillaz, in the fact that while none of the virtual band members represent actual people, the real musicians in the band have become well known.


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