Nagoya’s Lullatone have recently started a new project…well, more like they’ve begun playing around in their studio and creating tracks that don’t sound like what you’d expect from the duo, they write on SoundCloud. Tagged as “Leisure & Research,” the pair of songs to emerge from this experimentation are both really really laid back, numbers…
Sapporo is, technically, the birthplace of Hatsune Miku, the avatar for singing-synthesizer software Vocaloid. Fittingly, the Hatsune Miku Dreams Of Electric Sheep EP gathers electronic artists from Hokkaido’s hub to create songs using the technology. It’s also one of the more interesting Vocaloid releases in the program’s history….a lot of artists using Vocaloid tend to…
Lovely Summer Chan just released this as a single, and it’s a big one. Far bigger than the bedroom dream title implies — “Bedroom No Yume” is a charging number anchored by a big, wordless chorus. It has more in common with her work in For Tracy Hyde or even her collaborations with Uchu Nekoko…
I’m mainly used to Mikeneko Homeless singing about soba and asking for money, so forgive me for taking a second to catch up to them providing the production for a grooving, sentimental number. “Watermelon” finds them working with singer Lulu for a laid-back song, one tagged as “future sentimental” which is a nice little idea….
Here’s the next taste of Moscow Club’s first album in two years, due at the end of the month. “Band Of Outsiders” — premiered via blogger/curator Yvynyl — is Moscow Club playing heads-down indie-pop, all guitars and inter-locking vocal harmonies. It works best as the opener to Outfit Of The Day, and as a nice…