It took some time, but Nagoya’s House Of Tapes has been starting to push himself into more interesting sonic directions as of late. The project started out as a noisy thing taking conventional dance-music structures and seeing just how heavy he could make his take on floor-filling stuff. This meant a lot of four-on-the-floor beats…
Do you feel that, hanging in the air? As chilly autumn winds start blowing in, so does the specter of year-end lists. Tofubeat’s first full-length album Lost Decade is a lock to land somewhere on Make Believe Melodies’ top albums list, and if you haven’t bought a copy yet, get on that. Maltine Records, who…
September is offering up a lot of meditative, dreamy music for folks to get blanketed by. The highlight would probably be a resurgent Mazzy Star releasing a new album next week, but fans of hazy music could also turn to artists like Keep Shelly In Athens or Pure Bathing Culture (OK, it came out in…
Looks like it isn’t truffle season, but sad season. Whirilng producer Taquwami gets a bit melancholy with his new tracks, packaged together as “Japanese Sad.” All this despite first song “Wow” opening up with a Jay-Z sample. That first new song is actually a bit more upbeat than it leads on, as the vocals pop…
We’ve reached the point where idol music – usually an area reserved for AKB48 and Momoiro Clover z – has become really sonically smart. Not always at the top (though sometimes for sure!) but the lower rungs of idol-dom have resulted in some really interesting music. One reason – a lot of young producers are…