First off…HNC recently remixed Tokyo group The Brixton Academy’s “So Shy,” transforming it from a starry-eyed new wave joint into a chopped up, vaguely Bollywood track. HNC builds her take on the track around a bell-driven beat, slicing up the original track’s vocals into a call-for-prayer tone (it sounds a lot like the start of…
Buddhism just a little too boring for ya? Tokyo-based monk Kansho Taga decided the best way to spice up the sutras was to say them a little faster and have some dude beatboxing in the back. Taga now goes by the stage name MC Happiness and presumably raps about the eight-fold path. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsF0siaYBFc&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1] Dudes got…
You thought 80kidz had a busy 2009…wait until you see this year’s itinerary. Constant touring aside, the electro duo plans on releasing three EPs starting with the Voice EP that popped onto iTunes this Wednesday. The blog post announcing it also hints at the possibility of their second album dropping this year. For now, we…
Talk about a weird first impression: the initial track on Chizawa Q’s MySpace page flails around like a club goer hopped up on one Red Bull Vodka too many. The neon-bright synths seem like enough, but then enters some vocals ripped straight from the Chilled Dub compilation CD sold during late night commercial breaks. It’s…
“The world is a ＨＥＮＴＡＩ” MUIMUITIKITI declares on their MySpace. I don’t know what to make of that declaration, and I’m not positive what to make of the music contained on the site either. The primary goal of this blog was to explore as many corners of the Japanese soundscene as possible…and MUIMUITIKITI definitely an…