IOSYS (イ オ シ ス) is a musical group from the Japanese city of Sapporo . Best known for their remixes of songs from the Touhou Project series released by Team Shanghai Alice . The group does not collaborate with major labels , preferring to sell their recordings as dojin music at Komiket , other similar fairs, and through its own website.
| IOSYS | |
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| Type of | Yūgen gaisha |
| Base | 1998 |
| Location |  Japan , Sapporo |
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| Products | CD |
| Site | iosysos.com |
To advertise the upcoming albums, the collective makes flash clips , with which the collective has won the attention and recognition of the western public. Most of these clips are made to music and performed by characters from the aforementioned Touhou Project games, which already have an impressive number of fans. Flash-clips generated a lot of parodies, as well as caused a surge of interest in Touhou.
Name Origin
IO.SYS is an integral core file of DOS-like operating systems (including Windows 9x ), which is responsible for working with disk devices (Input / Output System - input-output system). How this inspired IOSYS to choose its name is unknown.
Links
- Official site (Japanese)