Editing YMCK (section)

==History==
YMCK was formed in May 2003 when Kurihara joined Yokemura and Nakamura. They soon released their first work; a CD-R containing 6 tracks.

In 2004, YMCK appeared at Microdisko in Stockholm, Sweden. In the same year they released their first full album, ''Family Music''.

In 2005, YMCK again appeared outside Japan, this time at the Formoz Festival in Taipei, [[Taiwan]] and at the Fat Festival in [[Bangkok]], Thailand. This year also marks the first release of the ''Magical 8bit Plug'', a synthesizer developed by Yokemura himself, motivated by frustration with the quality of game sounds available in the synthesizers used for Family Music.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2008/02/29/music/ymck-takes-chiptune-revolution-major|website=The Japan Times|access-date=21 January 2017 |title=YMCK takes 'chiptune' revolution major|date=29 February 2008 }}</ref> Now making use of the Magical 8bit Plug, they released their second album: ''Family Racing''.

In 2006, they again appeared at the Formoz Festival in Taiwan.

In 2008, YMCK  released their third album ''Family Genesis'', now under pop label [[Avex Trax]], made available for the first time on the [[iTunes Store]] in the United States. Later that year and under the same label, they would release their first cover album, the ''YMCK Songbook'', a collection of covers of Japanese music from the era before the [[Nintendo Entertainment System|NES]].

In January 2009, they appeared in Sweden once again, this time at UppCon] in Uppsala, and also played in the opening ceremonies for Katsucon 15 in Arlington, Virginia (DC). In that same month they also released ''Family Cooking''. In 2009, YMCK also remixed the No. 1 hit song [[Days/Green|Days]] by Japanese mega-star [[Ayumi Hamasaki]].

During 2013, YMCK released ''Family Days'', this time through not records. The theme of this album was said to be YMCK describing their own ordinary lives.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Yokemura|first1=Takeshi|title=Aydan Appreciates & Interviews: 'Family Dancing' & Yokemura Takeshi of YMCK|url=http://chiptuneswin.com/blog/aydan-appreciates-interviews-family-dancing-yokemura-takeshi-of-ymck|website=Chiptuneswin|access-date=21 January 2017}}</ref>

In 2015, they released ''Family Dancing''.

In 2017, ''Family Swing'' was released, and for the first time they also released through [[Bandcamp]], under U.K. chiptune label Hyperwave.