Expect a bit more on this one in the near future, but Nagoya’s Crunch followed up on the melancholy chill of last year’s “Blue” with the Blue Blue Blue EP, released this past Wednesday (and available on a lot of streaming services and iTunes). Don’t let the extremely adorable sea critter on the cover art…
The first time I ever saw Seiho play — and talked to him at all — came at the very end of 2011, at an EDM party in Osaka. He wasn’t making bass-heavy whiplash music, though, but rather cosmic-leaning stuff that would have slid in well within the LA beat scene. Since, he’s explored many…
Another album to add to the “spring must-listen” list: experimental pop maker Ytamo has a new collection called Mi Wo out in mid March, and Tiny Mix Tapes premiered the first song from it, “Human Ocean,” recently. It’s a bouncy song built from syllables and gooey keyboard notes, everything slowly floating up, new elements caught…
Producer Dubb Parade has a new four-song EP out called Reconquista, out via Anti Gravity Dance. It finds him in a mode he’s been operating in for the past year, making more minimal dance tunes featuring warped vocals and a cosmic vibe, featuring shifty beats that give otherwise vaporous songs a bounce (highlighted by finale…
Few experiences in Japan are as overwhelming as entering into a pachinko parlor. The noise within is overwhelming, a cling-claning nightmare of electronics and sirens, a noise show for every neighborhood in the country. It’s the sort of thing that’s easy to imagine being just too much — I’ve lasted, at most, ten minutes in…