A remix like this is tricky business — “Traveling” is one of Hikaru Utada’s best moments, one that still sounds surprisingly ahead of the times in 2015 (imagine what hearing this in 2001 would have been like). Osaka’s hyperactive Hiroki Yamamura is up to the task, though, mainly because he excels at making music that…
No easing into this EP from Trekkie Trax associate DubbyMaple: Summer Banana opens with chopped-up vocal samples tripping over one another for nearly three minutes, both delirious and akin to tripping down a really long staircase. That playful energy carries over to the rest of the EP, although it isn’t quite as manic afterwards, opting…
The trick is, Itadaqi isn’t that different than Canopies And Drapes, the project singer Chick headed up before starting the prior last year. Itadqi leans more towards rap…Chick’s voice flows…and she collaborates with rappers. Yet Canopies And Drapes featured what amounted to a talk-sing delivery that was just slightly flatter than what she does here,…
Osaka’s electronic music community has produced a lot of different sounds — wonky, funky, house-leaning, hard-hitting, abstract. But I’m not really sure anyone in the last few years has really sounded particularly menacing. Well, producer Yullippe is here with the rumbling, intimidating Loop Bell set. She’s (and this is important, given how male-centric Osaka’s electronic…
Sometimes you want to find as much offbeat and daring music as you possibly can…and other days, you just want some sweet-and-simple indie-pop. Tokyo and Mito outfit With Me! are straight-ahead twee…the cover of Heavenly’s “Starshy” closing out their debut EP Spring Has Come should be more than enough of a clue…and the three original…