[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7eiFlwEHr0″] Weird to think that, at the beginning of the year, Osaka’s precocious NOKIES! released their debut EP 7 Songs. That brief release, a seven-song (duh) collection of mostly head-snapping pop brimming with shouts and yells and youthful energy, got lost in what has been a great year for Japanese music. Yet now, as list-making…
Seiho is one of the many artists circling around the INNIT galaxy, an Osaka electronic music maker dabbling in the same future-leaning sounds artists like Madegg and Avec Avec (who appears in the band Sugar’s Campaign, also featuring Seiho). Yet Seiho isn’t just making music, he’s also trying to get it (and other artist’s sounds)…
As the song title indicates, this one comes a bit late…summer ended a while ago and I’m currently sitting in my apartment wearing a jacket. Yet Aonuma’s “Summer Ends” sounds swell even in the middle of November, so let’s give it some praise before the heater goes on. Powered by those big bright keyboard exhales,…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBawYY1BbHE”] Everyone gets their 15 minutes in the warm warm sun, even computer-generated idols and comedians-turned-music-makers. To this point, vocal software/hologram lady Hatsune Miku (who, as these children can’t fathom, isn’t real) been something I associate with the goofy arcade dotting Den Den Town, Osaka’s answer to Akihabara which means geek central. Not something I…
November’s edition of the Music Alliance Pact – the monthly project where blogs from all around the world share one great track from their respective nation – is here! This month, Make Believe Melodies submitted one of our favorite electronic songs of the year for the world’s consideration – Osaka’s Avec Avec’s “Kuzuha No Sunday.”…