Osaka’s The Neon City explores blurriness from two different angles on her newest pair of songs. “Chinatown” (above) revels in wooziness, voices layered over one another a la A Sunny Day In Glasgow, with the end result sounding like a drunken skip down the street, every good thing spinning around together. It is far different…
Vocaloid is, in itself, a deeply interesting instrument. Problem is, few producers have approached the singing-synthesizer program as that, something to be played around with and bent around. Rather, they see it as an honest-to-goodness singer. Blame Crypton for creating Hatsune Miku maybe, but a lot of Vocaloid music just sounds like typical rock or…
It’s a rainy holiday Monday, and despite a mountain of work that needs to be done, I just want to be lazy. A situation like that calls for skippy indie-pop, and Tokyo project Easel Easel’s latest song “Lose Melberg” does the job well. It falls in that twee-leaning sea of music that works best when…
Always good to see exciting collectives from different parts of the country team up to put out new music. Fukuoka’s Yesterday Once More keeps their strong 2015 going by joining up with Tokyo’s Cosmopolyphonic — no strangers to working with on the rise scenes, as they also were one of the first to hook up…
In which a pair of producers who have long been accused of being insincere remix a track by a J-pop group who have been mocked for the complete opposite reason. I’ll spare you any thoughts about PC Music, and instead focus on A.G. Cook and Danny L Harle’s surging remix of Sekai No Owari’s “Moonlight…