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Pioneering the style of "videosongs" on popular video-sharing sites such as YouTube, Pomplamoose is a San Francisco-based indie music and indie jazz duo consisting of multi-instrumentalists Jack Conte and Nataly Dawn. Starting their online presence in the summer of 2008 and naming themselves after a derivation on the French word pamplemousse, meaning "grapefruit", Pomplamoose has garnered a strong and significant fan following ever since. They are known for their rich and brilliant layering of a multitude of instruments, which Jack Conte defines with two rules: what you see is what you hear (no lip-syncing for instruments or voice), and if...

(now does things as Ventla) Named after the Japanese term for the hobby of modeling stuff out of plastic, Plamo is the gleeful, whimsical home recording project of professional clay modeler Shuji Suzuki. Beginning in 1995, Suzuki started working on a series of skittery, sparkly indie pop tunes that drew from the jaunty, carefree music found on early Nintendo games of the 8-bit variety (something that would eventually find the artist contributing to the soundtrack for the Sega Dreamcast game Roomania 203) and nodded to like-minded peers such as Lullatone, Takako Minekawa, and I Am Robot and Proud. His first...