DIVINE HAMMER – 宇宙ネコ子とラブリーサマーちゃん from Abi Laurel on Vimeo. The run up to Uchu Nekoko’s new album continues, and now a new video for their song with Lovely Summer Chan “Divine Hammer” is out. The music itself reminds that they haven’t gone full laid-back, as “Divine Hammer” is a galloping shoegaze-leaning number made light by…
Look, I’m not sure I have anything fresh to say about Yunomi or Nicamoq…let alone Yunomi and Nicamoq…as the producer releases songs at a quick pace, and they are always the same hyper-colorful, high-level quality. “Indoor Kei Nara Trackmaker” is the latest bit of cuddly EDM-pop the pair have created, and just the latest argument…
The most upbeat song about hikikomori since the golden days of Dempagumi.inc, for sure, and just an all around great bit of electro-pop courtesy of The Hair Kid, a producer originally from the New York area currently residing in Hyogo Prefecture. “Hikikomori” is a Yasutaka-Nakata-indebted number, featuring big burbling bass and electronically manipulated vocals courtesy…
Here’s a nice moment of worlds colliding, facilitated through a third party (label Phinery). DJWWWW is one of the higher ups at the always absorbing Wasabi Tapes, and on Split he’s sharing space with Mukqs, the project of Max Allison, co-founder of Chicago’s Hausu Mountain (helpful article here). Fittingly, when the two come together, a…
Future funk is one of those internet-centric genres that gets people pretty emotional. The basic idea behind it is…take an older funk song (or city pop cut) and maybe speed it up a bit and add in some extra beats, maybe make a few other small modifications to it. For the most part, this approach…