One final song for the weekend, and one more Tokyo-themed track from a Maltine artist performing at Monday’s Maltine “Tokyo” live event. Yoshino Yoshikawa teams up with LASTorder for…here’s that place again…”Tokyo,” a bouncy, fidgety electro-pop number continuing in Yoshikawa’s recent tradition of not really altering the vocals in anyway. Whereas in the past tasteful…
This Monday, Maltine’s big Tokyo event at Liquidroom goes down, and with just days to go everyone seems to be getting into the festive spirit. DJ WILD PARTY made this fantastic mix featuring everyone performing, while Meishi Smile made a mix for Hi Hi Whoopee. Hard-hitting producer Fazerock has a new song to top it…
Kyoto’s most shadowy producer, Eadonmm, is having a good year. He’s released one of the best albums out of Japan so far this year with Aqonis, which you can read my review for here. Now, he’s revisiting his past by re-releasing his cassette-only collection Anne as part of a split with South Korean producer Sima…
On Reverse, there are moments where reality slips through Tokyo producer i-fls Garageband-constructed escape world. They don’t pop up all the time across his latest longplayer – the bulk of Reverse explores the same hazy suburban communities i-fls has been navigating for a while now, twinkling numbers like “Original Design” and throbbing “Consolation” hitting on…
Longtime since hearing from indie-pop project Daisyblue, who return with a new album called Eldorado Reliruleru. The collection is at its strongest with the first two songs, which find Dasyblue plugging away at some tried-and-true formulas. “She Knows” is straight-ahead indie-pop rush, guided by vocals that want to shrink down beneath the song but gather…