Not positive who to attribute this gloopy-bass-heavy track to. Takuma is a member of the group Sugar’s Campaign and I arrived at the SoundCloud page featuring “PLUSminus” by going from that group’s MySpace to a Twitter to…well SoundCloud. Yet Takuma seems to be the only one taking credit for this tune? Yeah, not sure, but…
Talk about bad timing – I wrote about electro-dude Luka Uemura on May 3, bookmarking his Bandcamp page and assuming he wouldn’t post any new stuff for a while. Two days later, he uploaded EP/3, an ambient-focused release. I’m just now noticing it, but it still deserves some attention. On the previously noted EP/2, Uemura…
Two more articles in the Japan Times this week. One focuses on Maltine Records, which I’ve written about a bit ’round these parts. The other, though, touches on a group I’ve never written about on this blog – MacDonald Duck Eclair. Read that one, a review of their new album, here. I actually don’t have…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0vJzNQZws8″] What’s the best way of dealing with life’s annoyances? Like the “bottomless fires” option on the menu at whatever America-chain exists in your neighborhood, those roadblocks just keep coming. And you can’t get out of them – EVERY item on the menu comes with them, even the salads. Errrrr, maybe you get the metaphor….
The other day we talked about Kidz Rec member Baroque and his pulverizing anti-matter dance music. On the opposite end of the label’s sound spectrum sits Dominika’s “Eternal Spring,” a sliver of a track leaning closer to ambient than dance save for the most delicate of beats. It’s not without precedent – “Eternal Spring” sounds…