Controlled Karaoke: An Intro To Japanese Roots Music
Japan Probe posted a small write-up about Japanese roots music. It’s a nice little introduction to the type of music (one I’m woefully ignorant of, so this is especially great), so give it a read.
Japan Probe posted a small write-up about Japanese roots music. It’s a nice little introduction to the type of music (one I’m woefully ignorant of, so this is especially great), so give it a read.
When trying to talk about future funk and the variants on this micro-genre I personally find interesting, I’d point to Tanuki’s “Baby Baby No Yume” as a good example. It’s a heavy remix of an existing song that allows many of the main elements of the original to shine through, but re-arranges enough to offer…
Long running Electro-pop singer Frenesi…last seen galavanting about with the xxx Of Wonder Project featuring Nanba Shiho and the guy from Motocompo*…posted a couple of covers to her SoundCloud page last night. The highlight was her take on a Flipper’s Guitar song from back in the day, which recasts the song in a sparser style,…
Another day, another hazy bit of bedroom pop leaking out of the CUZ ME PAIN family, this time from Atlas Young. “Transfixing” hits all the pleasure points that makes Young’s music enjoyable…rainbow-bright music flowing over heavily obscured vocals, all resulting in something best described as “encompassing.” Nothing really drastically different on this go from Atlas…
30. Salyu “新しいYES” A lot has changed since I first wrote about this song back on April 1st…I don’t know what chemicals I got slizzered on when I compared Salyu to Erykah Badu and Cosmogramma ran away with my “album of 2010” honors…but this track’s selling point stays the same. I can assure you no…
Look, if a former Especia member does something musically, this blog will almost certainly cover it. If parts of this HALLCA release lean in on nostalgia for Especia, Monari Wakita’s solo career has been an effort to take similar ideas and turn them into livelier numbers that seem to be a bit more focused on…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPBOvJgeP44″] When Perfume City originally Tweeted “SNSD x Perfume on MJ! Dreams do come true!” followed by a YouTube link, I instantly got my hope stupid high that the two groups performed together on this show I had never heard of that probably wasn’t associated with a certain Chicago legend just like Perfume did with…