You know the joke that goes “what’s the secret of comedy?” and as the listener begins saying “what?” the teller cuts them off with the punch line – “timing.” Yeah, music releases through the Internet rely on the same secret. INNIT-associate Leggysalad’s recently released (and free to download) Shards Of Reality EP demonstrates this well…
Dummy magazine ran an interview with Sapphire Slows today, and it’s a really good read. One of the best parts comes when she decides to talk about the blossoming music scene in Tokyo – she mentions the likes of Friends, Neon Cloud and New House, and also fits in the CUZ ME PAIN roster. It’s…
Tokyo’s Canopies And Drapes, behind one of the year’s prettiest EPs, is now staring down The Rapture. She remixed that DFA group’”How Deep Is Your Love?,” a track many labelled a return-to-form and many astute YouTube users noted has a chorus sounding like “The Thong Song.” Canopies’ take removes the track from the club it…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWiUm5rOup0″] Here’s a new track from The Insect Kids, the horn-assisted shambler “ASTRA.” The singing, like on previous Insect Kids’ singles, remains might unpolished and is either going to be alluring or a roadblock, though the female chorus sounds quite catchy. The appeal of “ASTRA” lies with the the manic instrumentation, a dizzy rush reminiscent…
Starting this week, you’ll start to see a steady stream of year-end posts, covering all sorts interesting trends and developments in the Japanese music landscape, leading up to our songs and album lists. Though this isn’t an officially sanctioned year-end entry – look at these imaginary standards I’m inventing as I type!…I think CUZ ME…