It’s important to take a breather from nervy electronic music and twisty-turny J-Pop to appreciate a really solid piece of songwriting. Kiddish, the moniker adopted by Tokyo’s Sayaka Natori (also the name of a character in the film Your Name, which I saw last week, so I can make this reference), creates a laid-back but…
Some projects, you just have to give a little distance and see where they are going. DJ PCDJ is…I’m pretty sure…a juke-leaning project involving CRZKNY and at least one other person, and they have been releasing songs at a pretty constant rate, running from lush meditations to more rumbling fair. “Z O W N” marks…
In the past month, Korean pop outfits 2NE1 and Wonder Girls both called it quits. Those announcements came after a few other notable breakups in the world of K-Pop, and after months that saw the landscape of Korean music shift in a new way. It happened a while back, but January felt like it was…
Producer 3tos, like a lot of electronic artists going today, releases music at a really fast clip. So what makes Vocals By Threetos stand out is…well, right there in the title. The three songs here feature (going off the title) 3tos’ voice, which add a jaunty element to already elastic numbers. It is at its…
Calling something “underrated” often feels like a silly distinction, but I do kind of think Amunoa gets slightly overlooked in the Japanese electronic crowd. They are just so good at creating shifty little numbers, and using cut-up samples in a way that makes them stand out rather than blend in. “REM,” their latest, further shows…