Japanese singer-songwriter Rima Kato’s new album, Faintly Lit, is out now in Japan (and will be out internationally in February…hold tight) and here’s one of the choicest cuts from it. “Life Is Warm” is mostly a sleepy, kid’s xylophone accented number that seems sweet enough, but features Kato interjecting moments of longing…delivered in direct voice…
Kansai is still going strong when it comes to great electronic producers, and here’s another one to add to the ever-growing pile. Kyoto’s 4degC hovers around the recently returned Million Pavilions label, and has released an EP through them. His latest song, “Rush,” is a hiccuping number loaded with second-long vocal samples spilling over one…
Last year, Osaka producer Metome released his full-length Objet at the very, very start of 2014. It was a whirlwind of an album, created so that every bass slap and pitched-up vocal sample hit at just the right spot, and was one of the year’s best in Japan. Well, Metome appears to like dropping fantastic…
All signs point to Kyoto electronic producer Madegg having a big 2015…and to set himself up for the next 12 months, he’s gone and changed his name. He’s dropped all the vowels out of his name and is now going by just MDG (at least for now), and to celebrate the expulsion of letters he’s…
1. Keeping with a theme developed via Buddy Guy And Mechanic (though not quite as bad), here’s another song from another album that came out last year (December…glad the list-industry doesn’t really exist in Japan, people might push for November releases) getting a video in January. Works for me. 2. Afriampo were a noise-rock duo…