“水の中の太陽” plays out like a message relayed from a satellite floating way beyond the Milky Way’s boundaries. Morse-code-fast electrics tap by while glowing star systems pass by glacially, crackles of radio fuzz ripping through this serene picture to remind us of the distance required to see something so peaceful. Bells appear over the transmission and…
Every recording done by Pastel Blue available here features the words “homerec demo” squeezed into parenthesis at the end of the title. Though this initially would seem to indicate the group’s financial situation above all else, it serves as a good way to describe the Osaka band’s overall sound. This is immensely dreamy stuff, blanketed…
Heavenstamp is having a pretty great week for a band that hasn’t released any new material during said period of time. First they debuted a new video for the upbeat winner “Morning Glow” featuring some weird dancing, and now electro-gurglers 80kidz have remixed their song “Stand By You.” The duo stick to what they know,…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6qreZH5yhU”] If you have even a vague idea who Maximum The Hormone is, figuring out the big surprise awaiting in the video for their new single ends up being a pretty easy task. If that name means nothing to you it could be a little trickier – this new song opens with an idiot bounce,…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XVdsa0PtKA”] The above ad seems harmless enough, just a cutesy Japanese ad complete with a little twinkly jingle thrown in. It’s the sort of thing that would pass by to most people, and might leave even less of an impression to Western viewers exposed to weirder 30-second fare like Hulk Hogan singing about the days…