Last year was a year where I mostly turned my ears away from idol music, save for Especia (and Especia Lite), a bit of Negicco and the various projects you could draw a line to Yunomi. Well, that and idol music in Japan is at a place right now ideal for an underground crowd, and…
Kawaii-leaning producer Snail’s House has a new EP out in February, and has shared a preview via the chirpy 8-bit bouncer “Pixel Galaxy.” Over the past year, Snail’s House has been exploring new terrain with his sound, but this comes off more like a bit of his go-to style run through a Game Boy Color….
Well that’s a title I’m not going to try to put down again. Osaka experimental outfit Satanicpornocultshop release new albums at a pretty rapid clip, but something about their first 2017 offering really leaves an impression. It is built primarily out of samples…a lot of samples, that is, criss-crossing and turning familiar songs into new…
Japanese producer Quarta330 released his new EP Pixelated, his first through London’s Hyperdub in quite some time. I have a feature about him in The Japan Times today, which you can read here. I cover most of my thoughts on Pixelated there…so yeah, definitely click that, this is kind of a “read this other piece…
1. January isn’t even over, and Yasutaka Nakata has been involved with four noteworthy singles, each one offering a different view of where he’s at in 2017. If he can sneak a Capsule number in, we’d have a total round-up. “Harajuku Iyahoi” came first, followed soon after by Perfume’s “Tokyo Girl” and Natsume Mito’s “Puzzle.”…