instant cytron -- Shiawase na Jikan（しあわせな時間）

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Ten days ago, I introduced a duo known as Les gibis consisting of whisper-voiced singer-songwriter Tomoko Kataoka（片岡知子）and graphic designer Takashi Okada（岡田崇）through their 2004 song "Dancing Cat On The Optigan". It has quite the old-timey spacy loungy feeling as if it originated on some sort of game show from the 1960s.

Well, almost a decade prior, Kataoka was involved with another unit called instant cytron (1992-2006). Kataoka was joined with bassist and songwriter Muneyoshi Matsuo（松尾宗能）and guitarist and songwriter Goro Nagase（長瀬五郎）. They had gotten together while studying at Seinan Gakuin University in Fukuoka while Kataoka and Matsuo were starting up a prior band called House Condition and Nagase was involved in the band Bremen Rocks. 

Starting up instant cytron in 1992, they went for a sound that brought in lounge music, AOR and J-Pop, and in 1995, they released their first singles which included their second release "Shiawase na Jikan" (Good Times) in September. Starting with some cute scatting by Kataoka, the song seems to tow a line between Shibuya-kei and upbeat indies pop. What also helps with that image is the music video which takes on that sepia tone and a slightly jittery filming style (maybe that's the default style for Shibuya-kei music videos). The song was also a track on their major debut album "Change the World" from October 1995.