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Programming Note: My computer died today (water on the keyboard…not good people!) so posts might be slightly more infrequent. Pray to whatever computer god you believe in for me, thanks. But hey…here are two songs about wanting to get away from everything for a bit, how timely. It’s becoming clear electro-diva MEG works best as…
Mediafired: New Taquwami Hey
If you require official releases, whether they be digital packages or physical units, it would seem like Japanese producer Taquwami has been pretty quite for some time though. But actually, he’s just been sending music out either onto SoundCloud for, like, a day or dropping songs in other corners of the Internet…like file-sharing site Mediafire….
New Quarta 330 & LV: “Hylo”
Turns out the 2-Step push in Japan goes a lot further than just Goth-Trad. Quarta 330, out of Tokyo, creates a similar kind of dance music, though his version works in more fractured 8-bit noises. He’s landed a coveted spot on the Hyperdub label, and if luck should have it he should get a little…
Stitched Together: Paffgen’s “Channel View”
Tokyo artist Paffgen’s “Channel View” — tipped off to us by our friends at Lights & Music — is a 17-minute journey made up of a wide array of original sounds and samples, taken from the likes of The Weeknd and Neon Indian and, uhhh, Diddy Kong Racing. It features something that could be considered…
New Cool Japan: Ying Disk And Yang Disk
Let’s make this clear from the start – this is vaporwave, and if that is not your thing, turn back. It’s something that has always fascinated me though, so in I go. It’s sorta surprising that Cool Japan…a mysterious, possibly protein-rich project that mostly played around with the slowed-down sounds of vaporwave…went and released one…
New Taquwami: “Romantic Gaze”
Despite releasing so much music over the past year, none of Taquwami’s music to this point has ever sounded particularly romantic. His tracks evoked feelings of wonder, warmth, peacefulness and all sorts of other emotions, but never seemed to touch on the ultimate song theme – love. He didn’t even reserve those for his Occult…
