The latest installment in LLLL’s Chains series finds the Tokyo project in a softer, more melancholic mood. Not to be too obvious, but it’s right there in the title — “Phase 3: Reflect”, and the accompanying three songs aim for a head space looking back, without any of the harder thumping sounds that popped up…
As premiered on The Fader earlier this week, Tokyo’s Sapphire Slows offered a taste of her forthcoming mini-album Time, in the form of “The Edge Of My Land.” Vocals have always played a central role in her electronic compositions, primarily as something flowing through the song, adding tension to the song even when not clear….
I’m not the best at doing things I mean to do. Ask my email inbox. When it comes to posting around these parts, working life often gets in the way, knocking off all sorts of drafts just begging to get out of WordPress purgatory. I see you latest, very solid The fin. release, stay strong….
Few artists in Japan do hard-hitting release better than Masayoshi Iimori. The Trekkie Trax member has a new one called “Kickin’ Up” out via Good Enuff, and it works wonders as a roughneck dance cut…and as a good one to dive into after a long day of work (maybe letting personal experiences color that one)….
Electronic artist Qrion is at her best musically when exploring the quieter, almost hidden side of the genre’s sound. It’s a little too precious to position something like Sink as an alternative to busy EDM — Qrion just played Hard Fest in California, so she isn’t existing in a whole different world — but she…