[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbvyNH8sXDg”] The term “techno-pop” or “electro-pop,” especially when applied to the Japanese pop scene, usually refers to a very manic sort of sound clogged to the gills with noises. Think Perfume or MEG or Cosmetics, you get the idea. Frenesi’s latest single boasts plenty of techno-pop signals – see the programmed beat, 80s-cheese pad hits…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlkj2rzy7e0″] You probably love Pocky. If you don’t enjoy the delicious snack all the stereotypical otaku enjoy, check your head. It’s delicious. Chances are, fair reader of this blog, you also fancy the music of Yellow Magic Orchestra. Or you at least dig Perfume, who take a lot of musical cues from the group. Now,…
Nothing Very Vanilla Video do strikes as particularly strange. Electro-heavy rap featuring a few Mr-Toad-like turns into more traditional song and tinged with a bit of irony isn’t catching anyone off guard, not while Die Antword pull in Interscope dough. Yet every new song on their MySpace leaves me scratching my head…this shouldn’t be weird,…
I’ll cop to not being entirely sure who originally did “Insomnia” and I’m sure a little bit of research (read: Google) could help me out. But I’m borrowing my neighbor’s computer (thanks Jonathan!) and enjoying Game Boy hero 99 Letter’s take on the song too much to care. If you’ve checked out his stuff before,…
Osaka’s OORUTAICHI takes “Rum Hee,” one of the most joyful rushes on Shugo Tokumaru’s bubbly Port Entropy, and mutates it into a strange, multi-headed electronic beast. He originally edges the song into skittering electro territory, putting Tokumaru’s sweet vocals against a slipstream of digital gurgles. After the first chorus, though, OORUTAICHI changes his mind mid-air,…