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Perfume (パフュームPafyūmu?) is a Japanese girl group from Hiroshima, Japan, consisting of Ayano Ōmoto, Yuka Kashino and Ayaka Nishiwaki. They debuted locally in 2001 and made their transition to a major label in 2005, focusing more on electropop. As of April 2011, the group has released twelve major label singles to great success.[1]
Since 2003, Perfume has been produced by Yasutaka Nakata, founder of the group Capsule and the Contemode label.[2] The group's original post-Shibuya-kei sound made a sharp transition to electronic, dance and pop music taking on Auto-Tune, vocoders and electro house upon their signing to a major label.[3]
The group has given new meaning to the word "technopop" since Kraftwerk, Yellow Magic Orchestra, and has given birth to many followers, sometimes called "Post Perfume", of which many have a female vocalist or more, have appeared before or after Perfume, and have been more or less influenced by Perfume, such as Aira Mitsuki, immi, Mizca, SAWA, Saori@destiny, Sweet Vacation, 80_pan and labelmate Vanilla Beans, but these acts didn't attained the same popularity the group now possesses in terms of sales.[4]
