80:05 reflects a simplification of sorts for the electro duo 80Kidz. They’ve never exactly been a particularly straightforward unit, having come up during the heyday of blown-out bloghouse. And their music has always been a very hit or miss undertaking (again, bloghouse), but the moments of brilliance always used to balance out the cringe-ier exercises…
We can always count on Chocoholic for some high-energy dance tunes and “Love Cuts” certainly delivers on that front. It’s a bouncy bit of pop anchored by a sample noting that “love cuts like a plastic knife,” before a rap verse shoots up and the beat starts getting a bit shiftier. It’s a solid bit…
Inspired by a recent stay in New Zealand, Osaka’s The Neon City created the sparse and glowing “Another World.” It’s a song not in any particular hurry to get anywhere, for the first half content to just splay out in the sun, vocals barely audible and sparse keyboard notes up front. Drums eventually enter, and…
The latest from Sabacan Records comes courtesy of producer ind_fris, a Kyoto artist last seen on the netlabel sharing some “Gorillawave.” With “Remind Me Tomorrow,” he constructs a persistent house number full of space, which allows for the song to proceed at a breezy pace. Not quite tropical, but when everything stops and only the…
Not many artists writing an “image song” for a stuffed animal could come up with something compelling, but then again Beef Fantasy is a special kind of creator. The artist — who, we should note, released a fantastic song last year called “Virtua Beach” that we still kind of overlooked for reasons we are blanking…