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AR30 Rings In 2019 With AR30: New Year Compilation 2019 Featuring Yuichi Nagao, RieMellowJunk And More

ByPatrick St. Michel January 14, 2019January 14, 2019

New year (or at last new season) means new compilation from the electronic collective AR30. AR30: New Year Compilation 2019 gathers nine tracks to get the Year of the Boar off to a strong start. The set gets off to a fast start with Yuichi Nagao’s “Light,” a rush of fuzzy vocal samples, car horns and percussion that makes a drastic switch-up midway through to become a more meditative, piano-guided number. RieMellowJunk’s “Past Mistakes” features beats stutter-stepping forward while strings play off around them, while Soshi Takeda takes everything into a more relaxed space with the glassy house of “Building Reflection.” Dig in to find the tunes that help make 2019 start off smoothly. Get it here, or listen below.

<a href="http://ar30.bandcamp.com/album/ar30-new-year-compilation-2019">AR30: New Year Compilation 2019 by yuichi NAGAO,Soshi Takeda,DJ Pigeon,nok,Rept.,Soshi Takeda,rigly chang</a>

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Perma Frost: Super Magic Hats Teams Up With Mayumi (Of Chelsea Terrace) For “Snow Blue”

ByPatrick St. Michel March 4, 2015

Melbourne’s Super Magic Hats* has kept a close eye on the Japanese music for quite some time, so it is only fitting that he would start working closer with outfits here. One of his songs appeared on the last FOGPAK compilation, and now he’s released a new EP through Tanukineiri Records called Slowly. Definitely go…

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Movements In The Dark: Sleepy Tokyo

ByPatrick St. Michel April 18, 2012

Tokyo is a city in constant motion. People seem to always be moving, whether they find themselves caught in a large swath of people crossing the street or packed like sausages on a rush-hour train. Grocery stores stay open later in Tokyo, providing quick meals for those cursed to come home on the last train…or…

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From The Corners: Ayumiko’s “Dancing Darkness”

ByPatrick St. Michel March 12, 2018

Ayumiko has popped up on several songs by electronic artists that we’ve covered in recent times, but “Dancing Darkness” seems like a good entry point into her own sound. The melancholy atmosphere and her use of anime visuals puts her in similar territory to young artists such as Sleet Mage and Gokou Kuyt, but she…

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New Metome: Angel EP

ByPatrick St. Michel January 19, 2015

Last year, Osaka producer Metome released his full-length Objet at the very, very start of 2014. It was a whirlwind of an album, created so that every bass slap and pitched-up vocal sample hit at just the right spot, and was one of the year’s best in Japan. Well, Metome appears to like dropping fantastic…

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New Kyary Pamyu Pamyu: “Todoke Punch”

ByPatrick St. Michel April 12, 2017

I do not come to defend Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, nor try to find any redemption outside of Easter sales campaigns for “Easta.” It is a forgettable single, as have the bulk of her singles since “Mondai Girl.” Blame it on overbooked schedules for her or producer Yasutaka Nakata, blame it on the necessity to do…

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New Pop Chocolat: “Differ”

ByPatrick St. Michel March 26, 2012

[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRBWaMgKCeM”] Look, I’m not even going to try to write any deep analysis of Pop Chocolat’s new single “Differ.” Not that I couldn’t put on my plastic professor glasses and fire up my bubble pipe, but that would be a complete waste of time and soapy liquid when talking about “Differ.” This song, the lead-off…

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