Electronic artist De De Mouse wowed this year by crossing bright cartoony sounds with drum and bass. Wood Solid Dance Jam apply a similar strategy, but instead of electronic music they drizzle breakbeats over jazzy compositions. If Music Is Rotted one Note instantly came to mind, you know how this goes – WSDJ take a…
Add Puffy Shoes to the list of “Japanese bands about to drop hotly anticipated LPs in 2010.” The cutegaze (shits now trademarked don’t you take it) duo will release Something Gold in June, via Social Alienation. To get the world revved up for this full length, Puffy Shoes has given us “Jacky Jones” with accompanying…
Twin synth-dreamers CRYV tease another slice of wide-eyed wonder on the just-released-on-iTunes track “Somewhere, They Can’t Find Girls.” A mouthful, I know. The duo have a short sample of the track running wild over here. From the brief bit available online, CRYV continue their bid to open for Jonsi, merging galloping beats with big dreamy…
Shoegaze follows a pretty standard formula – go crazy with the guitars, to the point where the vocals get lost in the mix. Crystal Soda, like it’s namesake, attempts to change up the routine ever so slightly. But with much better results (R.I.P. Crystal Pepsi you were too good for this world). “Daybreak” features pretty…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVtrnaYS3z8&hl=en_US&fs=1&] Despite being a total jabroni when it comes to the language, I still purchase Japanese music magazine Snoozer whenever I can. In this month’s issue…featuring MGMT on the cover in case you are curious…the folks behind the mag interview dance music producer Halfby. Though I have no idea what Mr. Halfby says, I’m positive…