Producer Brinq has been sharing fizzy, at-times-80s-indebted electro-pop for the last couple of years, and has seen the project’s stock slowly rise over that time. Brinq’s first full-length album, Magical Brinq Tour, comes out tomorrow, which means now is as good a time as ever to highlight “Baby Baby,” a glistening disco-pop number featuring guest…
Takanax is a Japanese producer floating around netlabel Sy4in Records, doing plenty of solid work on their own, too. “Forest” is the artist’s latest, and it is a surprisingly contemplative number, at least by dance-centric internet standards. It features synth-generated moans and 8-bit frosting, but never goes too cutesy (or maximalist), instead opting for a…
Of course, it has to be said — this is labelled a “demo,” so it is totally possible that down the line Tokyo indie-pop band Evening Cinema make “Everlasting Summer” better, or manage to muck it all up and turn it unlistenable. Anything is possible! But despite that, this is an indie-pop group, and that…
As usual, a lot of quality songs appeared online over the weekend…here are some of the highlights. — Osaka’s And Vice Versa has been a bit of a busy bee over the last month, releasing a handful of tracks. “Never Told Me” is the latest, and a skeletal one at that — it’s a slow-burning…
Masahiro Araki is a member of the Nagoya-based band Remigai, an outfit who released a very good album last year and who are very much worth keeping an eye on. He also records electronic music as Fredricson, and his latest song “Salaam” finds the producer playing around with half-second syllables, laser-like sounds and skittery percussion….