Hello 38chan,
I was going to wait less than 8,000 years to post this but I kept feeling too demotivated to do anything. The last album I posted was of 猫祭り姫, so it makes sense that next is 幼虫社 (YohChuSha, "larva house".) They are a duo of producer/composer 井蛹机/Tsukue and singer/keyboardist ヂヂ/dgidgi. Tsukue helped to produce many of Nekomatsurihime's music (but I think most or all songs on the last post here are produced by her) and has a similar range of influences and very post-punk tinged style of pop music. Also like Nekomatsurhime, it has a distinctive early DTM feel I find endearing (although I think it's all rompler-produced.)
In this case it is particularly easy to tell who the influences are because the producer had a last.fm account
https://www.last.fm/user/tsukueYohChuSha's first album is a collection of demo recordings from 92 to 98. For the first 3 or 4 years, Tsukue was the only real member, with whichever friend or classmate he could perform live with but never being in the group for long. Some recordings are Dgidgi's vocals over these older compositions, and some are newer ones she helped compose herself. The album was released on cassette, but all of these mp3s are free downloads from their website. It's the earliest instance I know of a band uploading their (physically released) album for free online. Very dreamy and borderlines ambient music at times
幼虫社 - 幼虫期
https://mega.nz/file/nxRywLpT#sDuNLWzBcNUl-Xl0Fc11Q4oCVqDUwuqTIHCAKggG1AwTheir second and only "real" album came out in 2001. Only one demo song made it onto here, with the album having a more dramatic overall style while still being heavy on atmosphere
幼虫社 - 廃園Eden
https://mega.nz/file/u1QBwJIR#_NL4ZDTp52MRi1MqqbDpCyrNWKH2RcrX-W6ADN7hez4Post too long. Click here to view the full text.
