Metome’s music can sometimes just feel like an experiment in texture, like the Osaka producer is more interested in how a song feels than how it sounds. Usually, he manages to piece together something great out of that approach, as is the case on the squished-together “Lucy//Itch Stopping.” It’s an extremely spacious song that fizzles…
Producer Seiho has gotten a lot of attention for his more frantic productions, but he’s long been capable of more minimalist sounds too, such as his work with various rappers. His latest, “Pry,” finds him working with American artists Ehiorobo on a horn-accented little strutter full of water sounds (a nice reminder that Seiho is…
“Ultrapop” producer Yoshino Yoshikawa has always been a sucker for cute things, but “Les Chats” might be the closest he’s come to overdoing it. The lyrics — written by Cpnnn (@kittiesgalore, natch) and sung by Rionos — focus on cats, which is fine, I mostly just play Neko Atsume nowadays so no foul on the…
Programming Note: I’ll be at the Fuji Rock Festival for the next few days, so posts might be a bit rare (though a little is lined up). Follow along with me at one of Japan’s biggest festivals at Twitter and Facebook. Now for a quick one before I pack. Pelican Fanclub have a new song/video…
Niigata’s Yu-chi writes that he’s an “ordinary farmer” on his SoundCloud, and also adds that all of the music he shares (stretching back to 2012) is made simply as his hobby. His latest, Escapism is…well, just that, a collection featuring muted songs, moments of disorienting detail and like uhhhh MIDI-assisted jazz (“Black Cat Swing”). The…