Genres of music never vanish completely, they just go to the shadows until someone makes them “cool” again. So, it isn’t like shoegaze turned into vapor until Diiv came along and got all swirly in the U.S. That said, shoegaze thrives in Japan, maybe not at a hugely mainstream level, but step down to the…
Nothing like posting something, and then immediately finding out said artist’s other project has a new release too. AZUpubschool — along with producer Cor!s — put out a new four-song set as Kiwi recently, one that is a bit more thumping than AZU’s recent solo album. It opens with “Sugar Panic,” a song imagining “what…
For the past two days, I’ve been revisiting a lot of articles for another piece I’m working on about a certain famous pair of musicians who went supernova about two years ago. In these interviews, they talk at length about how computers can’t really be musical instruments, and how it isn’t the same man as…
Omoide Label has a knack for putting together wonderfully energetic compilations, whether they be focused on juke or otherwise. Their latest various-artists get-together veers towards the latter, though Your Sound sounds a bit more energetic. Budding producer Nyankobrq serves up a squiggly bit of electro-dance that seems descended from the DJ Newtwon school of production…
Perhaps because I was trying to ignore anything having to do with SOPHIE’s recent set of shows in Japan over the past weekend — because I would have gone but I had a prior engagement the day after and I’m now too old a human to stay out all night AND function properly afterwards —…