Duo Shelling released a very strong, very dreamy album called Waiting For Mint Shower!! earlier this year on White Paddy Mountain. It got lost in our shuffle for a bit, but the new video for “Shining Pool,” one of the slowly unfolding shoegaze highlights of the album, reminded us to give it a shout out….
Boogie Idol sits across the way from Pasocom Music Club when it comes to Japanese artists finding interesting new ways to play with the sounds of the past. And if this year’s Park City showed how music from a bygone era (and, like, malls) could be refashioned into something new, Boogie Idol’s latest Ongaku Yori…
Shiga-based electronic producer Mecanika has a new EP due out for the end of the year, but the 18-year-old artist decided to share a track from it way earlier than most net-centric promotion tends to do nowadays (good for you!). “Couleur” does something in its own way that has made a lot of new electronic…
The latest from producer Fredricson confirms that the artist — who is also a member of the group Remigai — firmly shows that even though he mostly operates outside of dance music circles, he makes some of the most compelling electronic tunes currently in Japan. “Paralyze” is his most dizzying work yet, a rumbling number…
“My Unterritory” seemingly falls apart at the seams. The latest from Hikaru Yamada and The Librarians features what sound like samples of strings, guitars and other instruments seemingly deteriorating in the back, Yamada letting the rough edges stick out and at one point lets it all fade out (to the point of literally skipping at…