Turning back towards the ’80s, when it comes to Japanese music, is (or, depending where you stand, still is) the in style. But the areas explored in Japan proper and abroad are very different. Outside of the country, there is a new-found embrace of Japanese ambient and neighboring sounds, highlighted by the recent attention given…
Producer Ninomiya Tasuki and artist Yikii work — based on available online data — over a far distance. The former is in Niigata Prefecture, while the latter is in China (and putting out pretty incredible stuff on her own, too). The two have come together to form Anemone, a “fairytale like music group” creating synth…
On the one hand, boiling “kawaii” down to one specific sub-style of music is not easy to do. On the other hand, there definitely is a wave of artists embracing cute and fluffy sounds, both in Japan and abroad. With the former, a lot of kawaii-approrpiate numbers have come out recently, so here’s a quick…
One of the key components of producer mus.hiba’s music these last few years have been digital voices, created using a freeware version of signing-synthesizer program Vocaloid called UTAU that generated the vocals on many of his tracks. Yet for his new song “Ginkgo,” he’s decided to bring a dash of real humanity to his slowly…
No better way to get the start of a new week going than with a new collection of skittery electronic numbers courtesy of Dubb Parade. This one, to some degree, feels a little more loose, potentially unfinished (or, at least, sitting around for a while), given the basic naming approach he takes to the five…