This is like catnip to me – Kyoto’s Maho Littlebear, who has made and been part of some really great music this year, puts a whole lot of electronic distortion on her voice for “Too,” and turns this digi cry into the base for a shifty floor-eyeing song, one where her vocals are static but…
Dude doesn’t just need talkboxes and vocoders to shine, it turns out. Tokyo producer PellyColo – whose Temptaion EP from earlier this year does ’80s throwbacks right, and whose remix on Especia’s Gusto is one of the best songs of the year – has a new song called “Island” that is all gliding synthesizers and…
The “about” section might be the most intriguing part of this – “WKAAFS” comes from Madegg’s forthcoming fourth album, release date unknown as of now. This song, complete with minimalist video, is a relaxing enough preview, swapping out the clitter-clatter production the young Kyoto native has favored for most of his career in favor of…
What, do you imagine, does a hellscape sound like? DJ WWWW presents his answer on the MIX: HDPC-UT(K:) mix, which pushes snippets of pop songs, movie dialogue and Japanese commercials against…what sounds like a city burning down while robots battle one another. Like his previous releases, he’s taking a lot of cues from the jarring…
Miles Apart Records has been doing a series of special, limited-run cassette releases over the past few months, called the Cassette Tapes Club. All of the releases are worth listening to if you are in the market for guitar-driven indie pop done solidly…let us take a moment to appreciate the Internet, turning small-run cassettes into…