This isn’t the first time Osaka’s Luka Uemura has teamed up with the artist Affable Noise…back in May, the two teamed up to record a brief album of improvisations which you can hear this way. Now here they are, together again, presenting the world with a lovely late-August present mysteriously titled “If She Had Waved…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELjxLMsplDA”] Let’s take this introductory paragraph to remember how hyper-pop artist EeL’s earlier-this-year album For Common People landed with a technicolor thud. That full length turned her formerly charming restlessness into predictable chore, the wacky kid in the class realizing everyone else expects him to act that way now and thus always acting “wacky.” For…
It’s great that an artist can just throw recently completed tracks online minutes after completion and get attention for them, but still it’s nice to see actual albums and EPs pop up as well. Kyoto’s Madegg (looks like he doesn’t go all caps anymore, cool) has been posting a bunch of excellent single tracks to…
Beyond being a great and off-the-beaten-path remix of an already lovely tune, Nites fog-machine reworking of Moscow Club’s “Daisy Miller” also outlines everything exciting about the CUZ ME PAIN-ers work. The M83 influence lingers around the whole song – those organ notes at the beginning especially bring to mind “In Church” – and how Nites…
Belgium dance artist Sound Of Stereo‘s original mix of “Diamond” is plenty good, a quick blast electronic fun with a nice wordless vocal and a good beat. Hoshina Anniversary looks at “Diamond” and sees a Carl-Saigon-sized light show in utero. His remix stretches the track out to five-and-a-half minutes, adding Tie Fighter-esque lasers to the…