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How Vocaloid became the soundtrack to liminal spaces

Before "Backrooms" became a movie, the singing-synthesizer software Vocaloid was the hallmark of the liminal and the uneasy in Japan.

How Vocaloid became the soundtrack to liminal spaces

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Before "Backrooms" became a movie, the singing-synthesizer software Vocaloid was the hallmark of the liminal and the uneasy in Japan.

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Before "Backrooms" became a movie, the singing-synthesizer software Vocaloid was the hallmark of the liminal and the uneasy in Japan.

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