The latest from Nagoya’s Masahiro Araki a.k.a Fredricson, of folk-pop outfit Remigai, is a bouncy electronic number seemingly borrowing ideas from beat making, but arranging them into a lively and squiggly form that requires no vocalist. Guitar strings and pitch-mutating vocal samples intertwine out the gate, before some brighter electronic sounds hop their way and…
The latest in LLLL’s monthly project, “Loaded Gun” sounds, on first brush, far more upbeat and even at times downright happy (that synth line!). It’s a heavy-hitting number, the beat drawing from modern bass music but opting to not dive into the deep end of the style, with the big breakdowns on “Loaded Gun” serving…
One of my stronger memories of the past year was seeing Group2 play a show at Ebisu’s Batica venue, and just completely stealing the show. The four-piece band delivered a frantic, unpredictable and above-all-else fun show, one that made me completely forget whatever came after (sorry whoever came after). That group will release their first…
Now here’s some lovely cacophony. Nagoya’s House Of Tapes has created a lot of busy and, at times, crushing works over the last few years, but “Spark Spark” belongs to a different category — this is a charged-up number, one featuring ominous beats and a lot of distorted vocals, like transmissions coming from some hell-park…
Two ways to look at “Mille-Feuille:” 1. Tokyo Girls’ Style have long been one of the early adopters to new styles within the idol realm. Since they were created by Avex as a way to get in on the then-burgeoning idol scene, whooshed in by the success of AKB48. They started out right around the…