Maimai (not to be confused with the game that is also called Maimai), is a fairly small indie-musician who mainly focuses on this exact type of music namely the YTPMV genre. By taking samples and splicing voice lines from visual novels or animes together, sewing them together, adjusting their pitches and making them work Frankenstein style. To those who aren’t well versed with this type of music, it’s very easy to mistake them as Vocaloids instead.



And that's the extent of Maimai’s work. He may have no original compositions, but it’s important to recognize the work he had put through to create pieces of music by only splicing sounds samples together, alongside superb video editing and interesting visuals for one to enjoy.



The man had been doing this for 6 years after all, probably even more.



Not to mention the very creative use of the many samples he is able to splice out. Give him a bag of weird and questionable sounds, and you bet he is going to make something out of it. I mean, just look at “Windows” or whatever the hell this is. You can’t look at this, and tell me this is the work of just a regular musician mixing samples and voices together. Between a regular windows error sound remix and “Windows” by Maimai, there’s an extremely clear difference in terms of creative philosophy between the two.



Maimai is an absolute expert at changing something original, shifting and twist it to a musical expression, and I think that alone is quite admirable. It’s a music genre way out of its prime on the internet, but when I look at all the nonsense Maimai puts out, I can’t help but feel intrigued with his craft. It’s not the average splicing and remixing you’d see on the internet. It feels like something more intricate.



Though of course, I am not well versed about internet culture to know a lot about this genre of music. Whether or not is it actually great music, that’s up for you to decide.




YTPMV, youtube poop music video in full, is a medium that is not as prominent as it used to be, nowadays you would be surprised to even see 1 of them in your youtube recommended section. So seeing it now brings a huge sense of nostalgia as it reminds me of a simpler time.



YTPMV drowns down basically two things, the music, and what you use to remix it. Most of it uses random clips on the internet, and mixes it into a well known song. A prominent figure in the scene was schmoyoho with his presidential remixes and the sort. But as time passes on, his uploads become more and more infrequent like most in the ytpmv scene.



So about MaiMai, he is still making ytpmv in 2021 with a somewhat consistent but not as frequent upload schedule. In his YTPMV he uses mostly clips from animes or visual novels, as it best demonstrated in his More one night (the ed of girl’s last tour) mix ( 'ω'o[More One Night]oThe material he used ranges from Senko the helpful fox to Saya no Uta (a very messy and gory visual novel), a weird but respectful choice (in my book). The vocals for the song is a spectacle of itself, he sentence mixed for the whole of the lyrics for that song, using Senko’s voice and Murasane (from Senren Banka).



Besides that, another one of his work I like is the da da da da tenshi windows remix, in terms of quality, that is up there at the top along MowtenDoo Gachi ytpmvs. The mixing, animation and editing is just on point.



If you don’t know what YTPMV is before reading this, MaiMai is a good entry way to that circle, and if you already know what YTPMV is, besure to check out his channel, he makes quality stuff.