I allready linked to Piana, the first artist who appeared on the "happy" label. To make shure you also check out the other great stuff from this label, I am writing this second post. If you think Piana is still to much j-pop, try the other artists. In fact, the track by Eisi is one of my current favourites.
"On this debut from Naoko Sasaki, alias Piana, connections are forged between the seemingly disparate fields of glitch processing and coy J-Pop. Coming across as a child's sketchbook or diary, there is a palapable sense of nostalgia in these lovely songs, powerful and moving evocations of a kid's world that vary int one from the tearful to the joyful to the fearful. Basing her fragile melodies on slow motion Satie-like chord patterns, employing piano, organ, occasional broken beats and beautifully measured guitar from Yuichiro Iwashita, Sasaki then destabalises the music by adding a low key firework display of static pops and hisses which serves as a brilliantly effective metaphor for a child's sense of wonder, distress, excitement and anxiety. The songs recall both the unsettling, naive sampladelica of Pop - Off Tuesday and Cocteau Twins at their heartstopping best." Review from the WIRE magazine