ELLEH is the new project from Bob (of Ice Cream Shout, Cloudy Busey and many more) and Satoru Teshima (fellow Japan-based blogger over at Lights And Music), and the unifying concept here is “sad boy disco.” The thrust of this thematic glue is the duo make music apt for those early morning hours (or late…
We’ve been on a bit of a textural kick recently, tickled by music that aims for a sense of feel. Producer Ojaco has long been doing this sort of sound well, and his recently released Head In The Clouds album is one of his strongest collections yet. The trick lies in Ojaco’s ability to mix…
There’s a lot of good stuff piled up in the Make Believe Melodies drafts folder (it is very disorganized), but the best place to start is with some pleasant seagazer music from Mukuchi. “Kiekake No Gaitou” is a light but charming number that is barely there, skittery beats and keyboard out of an old-timey, sort…
Been a while since Maho Littlebear shared new music, but she’s back with MLB, a four song rumbler of electro-pop. MLB finds the Kyoto creator laying down mid-tempo dance-pop music, sometimes unfolding at a jittery, almost creeping pace (opener “Want”) to moving at a more pop friendly pace (“Skippy” tells you what you need to…
The title, as beautiful as it sounds, is not totally honest — it is more like “singing-synthesizer juke,” as the voices popping up across this collaborative album between Omoide Label and Massatsu Records come from a variety of sources (one example — the sixth song here uses a computer-speak program, one that helpfully lays out…