If you’re looking for the part of the Metome post where I talk about “fading memories” and “lost scenes,” don’t worry that will certainly pop up briefly. The Osaka producer’s music over the last couple of years has inspired me to get gloopy and long about a very specific time in Osaka’s electronic music community,…
Let’s “Bandersnatch” this one: select (1) to ask the music blogger why the video above is so short, select (2) to ask the music blogger about Frasco’s “Tatemae” by itself. (1) OK, sit down for a second, have I got some thoughts to unload on you. There’s this whole new class of Japanese artist emerging…
ANACONDA TRAX vol.1 by DJ ANACONDA Last year, CRZKNY released GVVVV, which found the juke maker pivoting hard into straight-up gabber. It was a faithful set with a few flashes of the Chicago-style thrown in, but one that feels like a fun (and pounding) detour. But now, under the guise of DJ Anaconda, CRZKNY has…
Kyoto’s Stones Taro has turned the past into their playground over the last two years. “You Are (M)” moves away from the blunted territory of “lo-fi house” in favor of a jungle number that allows the edges to blur a bit, a seeming nod to the glory days now well gone by (that, presumably, Stones…
DJ Fulltono told me last year in interview that he wants to keep boiling down juke to its most basic elements, and the Before The Storm EP displays this desire for simple but body-moving exercises in percussion. This isn’t the first time Fulltono’s minimalist hunger has come through — the Draping series he’s doing with…