I’m going to assume that if you are reading this blog…and didn’t stumble hear by total accident, but if so thanks for the ego-boostin’ hit!…you like Japanese music. If not, well, give it a shot. Surely you buy music sometimes, even if it’s just a sometime thing. And few places online offer more Japanese releases…
Last year Matsuda Gakuji’s Cubismo Grafico Five project released their best album to date, the accurately titled Double Dozen, which mostly abandoned restraint in favor of 24 rapid-fire tracks bouncing from pop-punk to reggae to art rock. It was a messy triumph, a group of artists embracing madcap energy to craft a dizzying collection of…
A 9.0 magnitude earthquake struck Japan this past Friday, the strongest ever experienced by the country, triggering a 23-foot tsunami. This has caused as-of-now unknown amounts of damage, yet the images and videos coming out of the affected areas show mass amounts of devastation. Many have been killed, and countless more have been injured or…
Japanese producer Yamaan released his first album 12 Seasonal Music back in January and I feel especially stupid not stumbling across it until now after hearing “Blossom.” Opening with a vocal sample, the song quickly turns into a folk-tinged number before shifting once again into its real form – a never-sitting-still hip-hop beat anchored by…
Cornelius seems poised to have a really big 2011, what with his collaboration with Salyu and some help with that If By Yes project. So what better way to continue this hot streak than by stepping back in time to 2010 and rejiggering MGMT’s “Brian Eno?” The jaunty hop of the original recording gets diced…