Being surprised by anything weirdo Bay Area rapper and/or Internet meme Lil B does seems like a tough task given the multitude of weird shit he’s put out. Ambient rap record? Check. Songs about being Ellen Degeneris and Miley Cyrus? Check. Rapping over the X-Men theme? Google it. Yet here I am a little tickled…
It was only a month ago that Berlin-based electronic music maker Midori Hirano adopted the name MimiCof to release some tunes you could almost feel. Now in July, Hirano has released a four-track EP under her birth name called Magnetic Visionaries which mostly steps away from the textural bliss of her recent MimiCof work in…
Seems that sometime over the weekend Tokyo dance-noise duo Nu Clear Classmate called it a day. Vocalist Chick wrote about it a bit on her Twitter at various points over the last few days. Bit of a bummer considering the group’s debut EP Lick The Star sounds about as perfect as an EP can get,…
I’ll just come out and say it – Nagoya, kinda boring place. Maybe I’m letting my Kansai show a little too much, but save for the very lovely zoo and aquarium, it’s kind of a sleepy place. You either go there to renew your visa or hop on a Shinkansen to get somewhere much more…
At least half of this song’s title is dead on – Tokyo producer Eccy’s “Rainbow Eyes” erupts with color, a tweaked-out dance track with a Starburst Tropical candy pack’s worth of visual stimulation. Like the titular natural phenomenon, trying to describe this tune seems kinda pointless. Eccy lays everything out right in front of you…