I’ve been trying to write about Weird Wind, from Tokyo-based artist Waterprize, for like a week now. Or maybe I just really like spending time within this album, one that zips between straight-ahead house (“Momentum”) to vaporous meditations that seem perfect for sitting in a misty forest to just think (“Regret Lingers Still”). Simply being…
It’s an easy cureveball, but a hanger on the corner all the same — manic electronic duo who released a whirlwind album slow down a bit on new song, and embrace some more chilled out sonic vistas. So it goes with The Wedding Mistakes’ “Mothergreen,” the duo of Miii and LASTorder’s latest offering, which isn’t…
Like many independent electronic producers in the Internet age, Towa stitches together shards of sounds — whether it be a vocal sample, a bass slap or something else — into music all their own. Pieces highlights the Japanese artist’s approach to this, slotting Towa next to the like of In The Blue Shirt and Soleil…
The themes for Japanese electronic compilation series Fogpak have been getting a bit simpler as of late, moving from like “Twilight Tengu” and “Blurred Gold” to number 14’s simple premise of “sports.” Nice and open ended, and as someone who splurged on NBA League Pass this year, a welcome addition to what has been the…
Considering how much of producer Miii’s music has felt like bodies breaking apart — of bass snapping like fragile bones and drops that sound like head trauma — it seems fitting he’s eventually reached the point where it all dissolves into the air. “Against The Rainbow,” off a release slated for release in 2016, does…