Besides making original music worthy of soundtracking a move to a misty forest, Qrion is among Japan’s best remixers right now thanks to her ability to find a new angle to an existing song without sacrificing the spirit of the untouched version in the process. That’s all on display in her rework of Aristophanes’ “Peach…
Yet another album coming later this spring to get excited about — left-field juke maker Foodman has a new album called Ez Minzoku out in May. He’s shared a taste of it with “Hikari,” a jittery electronic number featuring elements that would fit right at home in a Foldger’s commercial. Yet what starts as cheerfully…
Sharing a “short version” of anything feels like cheating…why not just wait a week until the full video hits YouTube…but we’ve bent the rules for Perfume before so why deviate from that path. “Flash” is the first non-single to emerge in the run-up to Cosmic Explorer, out worldwide in about two weeks, and finds the…
Osaka duo Caro Kissa have a new album out at the end of the month, and they’ve shared the first song from it, the bouncy “Imagination.” The horns and keyboard popping up here — and taking up more sonic space than before in their music — hint at them trying to jump into the city…
Osaka’s Yullippe excels at slow-burning electronic numbers that feel like quicksand. Her latest, “Retouch,” is one of the more sinister sounding songs she’s made in recent memory, less about pounding the listener into submission and more about making them feel deeply unnerved over the songs nearly eight-minute-long play time. A few human breaths appear early…