A Mad Decent Christmas album sounds like a horrible idea, but honestly — everyone has a Christmas album, so it feels pointless to get cynical about a Major Lazer song about fucking Christmas trees when the novelty holiday collection is such a time-honored tradition. It’s an extremely goofy affair, but far better than the label…
Kindan No Tasuketsu are a band full of detours — they’ve explored boogie-assisted rap, tropical instrumentals and fragile acoustic ruminations — but I’d argue they are at their best with the big, bright-eyed songs mixing melancholy with excitement for what tomorrow might bring. Like “Tonight Tonight” before it, “Tomorrow World” is a nervous electro-pop number…
Plenty to be thankful for today (though in Tokyo, it only feels like a holiday…probably should get on all this work…), but for now we’ll take the arrival of two new songs from hazy house maker Hiroyuki Tanaka. “Just Praise Your Inner Child” is the sweeter, more sun-dappled of the pair, a twinkling number featuring…
Kyoto’s Toxxies are an electronic duo, mixing at-times shimmering, at-times hazed out sounds with female vocals that, based on the pair’s output to date, are left relatively untouched by technology. Many of their creations so far — all signs point to this project having started earlier this year — carry a shadowy side to them,…
It’s weird to think that Madegg has been creating richly textured dance music for, oh, at least six years now. And yet, it doesn’t feel that long ago he was the opening act for a Brainfeeder showcase in Osaka, or simply one of many now-notable names crowding the bill at an INNIT event. But he’s…