Note: I’m in Seattle for the next few days, which means posts might be less frequent than usual…especially accounting for the less-than-stellar wi-fi in my room. Despite all the trends present in Japanese indie rock…how quickly scenes appear and vanish, how different non-Japanese acts end up being massive influences for stretches of time (today: Mac…
Some times, Beef Fantasy shows off his dazzling songwriting skills on songs about train lines, or virtual beaches. This time…a seemingly simple, borderline jokey number called “Panty Stocking,” which finds the artist repeating the titular phrase through heavy Vocoder over and over again. Yet despite the thematic simplicity, this song is a great highlight of…
The latest in Polish label Outlines’ groove series — previously highlighting DJ Fulltono and CRZKNY — zooms in on Skip Club Orchestra, another long-running figure in Japan’s juke scene. The two grooves here allow an artist who mostly works in quick bursts to expand on their style, both tracks leaning towards the sparser side (especially…
Electronic duo ELLEH have been building up to this EP over the last few months, and now here it is, Anthems Part 1. It collects all of the singles and loosies the pair have put out thus far, including the tipsy “American Lover” and recent highlight “New To This.” It’s the first real dive into…
Pachinko isn’t a pleasurable experience. This is especially when it comes to the noise those Christmas-tree-bright machines spit out as you try to launch metal ball bearings into Goku’s nose. Anyone who has even walked by a parlor at the moment the automatic doors open know it’s a pounding, crushing aural feeling. Yet that’s exactly…