You can make a strong case that Tomggg ushered in the current wave of “kawaii” electronic music coming out of Japan (and abroad). Yet even if you don’t want to go that far, he’s was undeniably ahead of the curve. But Tomggg has proven restless and, at a time when the producer could easily ride…
New month means a new installment of LLLL’s “Chains” series, and we’ve reached the time for an EP. Which, in one writer’s humble opinion, is a welcome arrival after a busy five days. Chains “Phase 2: Remain” moves in a more meditative direction than the Phase 1 EP, the songs here featuring guest vocalist Yeule…
Have A Nice Day! excel at getting the most out of just a little. Over the past couple of years, the band has created big, dare-we-say-anthemic songs using a relatively sparse set up — synths, simple beats, some guitar, maybe a sample or two if they are feeling luxurious. And they like to find a…
After a series of ’80s-tinged songs released as singles, synth-pop revivalists Satellite Young have released an eponymous album. Springing off of recent posts touching on various shades of backwards-appreciating music, Satellite Young is unabashedly…and gleefully!…channeling Bubble era pop, loading it up with neon synthesizer and the type of singing that would make the golden age…
Osaka’s Le Makeup has dropped a few wonderful club mutations in the past few months, but “CNNISSEUR” comes off as the most energetic one next from the emerging producer. It merges a back-and-forth beat…one that manages to slightly unnerving in how it gets punctured by sudden bursts of percussion…with looped rapping, which eventually collapses in…