Hello samachan,
I have found this artist 猫祭り姫 (Nekomatsurihime, "cat festival princess") in a record store in Tokyo. I bought the album HAKOIRI because the cover is cool and I was surprised to find out the music is really, really good
It's very quaint desktop pop music set in a cute shinto world. A lot of influence from Akino Arai and light post-punk/indie bands like Nav Katze, Zabadak, D-Day, Zelda, but it's not rock music. There's a minimal and DIY feel on a lot of it. She rereleased 3 albums a couple years ago on CD and streaming, めぐる is my favorite
https://open.spotify.com/artist/1Gl5yeeKf0YSCeJO0hqNChI found her old website, it had some free downloads. It hasn't been updated in almost 20 years. These are early variations of songs later on albums, songs on albums unavailable since 2002 and some one-offs. I also checked everything I could through wayback machine to find a couple songs that I don't think anybody has heard in 2 decades. I compiled them here:
猫祭り姫 - 宵町
https://mega.nz/file/7ggnnBZL#sGxiV-Tga125bZNIUL9F1hS7SdIduvAPhkHymc0L1vMMost of the audio is very low quality because they are .rm files from 2000-2005. I find the dated encoding charming and fitting. The cover is artwork she had on her site in 2000.
Thanks for reading, gurochan. I'm hoping to dump rare stuff I come across from time to time in this thread