Cuteness can be as overpowering as any other feeling around, and few Japanese electronic producers understand that like Yoshino Yoshikawa. His sugar-blasted work takes cuddliness to its logical endpoint, without a hint of irony, resulting in music dripping with sweetness but never tipping over to sickliness. “Inventions And Cuties” is a relatively simple number —…
We’re friends, right? Lots of laughs, lot of good times around these digital grounds? Alright, I thought so, because I’m going to show you something. I’m going to show you…the past! That linked post comes at you about a month I started this blog, and woooo boy does it reveal how little I knew about…
I’ve been caught up in a lot of nostalgia recently for the late ’00s “nu Balearic” movement that centered around (but wasn’t limited to) Sweden. It’s partially because tropical house music is having its big crossover moment via Biebs, and every time I try explaining the sound ofhis new songs to people they inevitably say…
Kyoto’s Native Rapper touches on a lot of sonic ideas that have pollinated on SoundCloud in recent years and have been embraced by a lot of other Japanese acts. The main intersection going on in “Water Bunker,” his newest song, is between the fizzy electro-pop&B of Tofubeats and the love of individual sounds…regardless of how…
One of my favorite albums of the year is Meishi Smiel’s Belong, and maybe part of the reason for that is I have a hard time putting into words just why that is. I mean, I know why, but getting into words that feel appropriate feels like climbing up a mountain. It boils down to…