The city sits at the center of Japanese life in 2016, as the number of people moving to major metropolitan centers keeps growing while the countryside — and even mid-size cities — see populations dwindle, once bustling shopping arcades reduced to shuttered-up artifacts. Music, accordingly, has shifted towards a more urban crowd. This has been…
Not sure when And Vice Versa went for the acronym title, but the long-running producer and INNIT founder is still creating hypnotizing house tunes under any title. AVV’s latest, “Only You Know,” is a sun-gets-in-your-eyes slow burner, a skittery beat making way for some lithe electronics and a sweet vocal line in the center…before AVV…
Sometimes, the most unexpected things conjure up pathos. Producer Athena’s latest features a pounding beat and a mid-song excursion featuring samples from anime, yet rather than be high-energy netlabel filler, Athena wraps it in a series of wispy synthesizer lines, giving “Cry More Cry” a melancholic vibe. It exists on the same plane as Shortcake…
“Come To Me” has been floating around for a couple months now, having appeared on YouTube back in July, but now the Metome number has a proper home on Noumenal Loom’s latest compilation album. Wherever you listen to it, “Come To Me” is one of Metome’s better experiments with space, a series of quick bursts…
Some artists release music at such a rapid pace that finding the right track to spotlight…whether they are an established act (Lullatone, who have been releasing a song a week this year and I just don’t know what to do without turning it into a weekly fixture) or a relative newcomer. Keita Sano isn’t super…