Music

Controlled Karaoke: An Intro To Japanese Roots Music

ByPatrick St. Michel February 3, 2010

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.

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New TalkingCity1994: “Life Goes On”
ByPatrick St. Michel May 27, 2012June 17, 2012

I had a discussion about death last night with a friend. Well, it wasn’t directly about death, but rather a conversation about other topics – natural disasters, moving, trying to find a new job – that oftentimes carry underlinings of fate, the uncomfortable shadow of inevitable decay. Not the most upbeat material for 3 A.M….

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Sticky: TAAR Featuring Iri “Come Together” And Iri’s “Watashi”
ByPatrick St. Michel February 28, 2017

Turning back towards the ’80s, when it comes to Japanese music, is (or, depending where you stand, still is) the in style. But the areas explored in Japan proper and abroad are very different. Outside of the country, there is a new-found embrace of Japanese ambient and neighboring sounds, highlighted by the recent attention given…

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Texture Time: MimiCof’s “Foil” And “Tunnel”
ByPatrick St. Michel June 8, 2011

Usually when someone talks about how a song “feels,” they focus on the emotional side of the music and really how they feel listening to it. MimiCof, the project of Berlin-based Midori Hirano, makes music you feel in an almost-tactile way, like she tells you to shut your eyes and touch a mysterious object that…

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New House Of Tapes: End Of Collapse
ByPatrick St. Michel June 15, 2016

“Collapse” seems to be a word popping up with a bit of frequency in the Japanese electronic music scene this year. Seiho’s recently released Collapse is the most obvious, an album that gets its name from a deliberate move to break down his style and rebuild. Nagoya’s House Of Tapes latest album is called End…

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Controlled Karaoke: New Male Version Of NMB48, Osaka Spinoff Of AKB48, Coming Soon
ByPatrick St. Michel February 13, 2011

Turns out the whole 48-member-pop-group trend will never die – based off the success of AKB48-copy NMB48, someone had the idea to start up an all-male version for the Osaka area to rake in that sweet sweet teenage girl/lonely housewife money. Auditions to be in this new performance troupe go down late this month, and…

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New Manon Featuring Sleet Mage: “Winter Lil Life”
ByPatrick St. Michel February 26, 2019

On paper, Manon should be an artist right in our wheelhouse. It is offbeat pop featuring a lot of production work from HNC, an artist responsible for some of this blog’s favorite songs of the 21st century. And yet…nothing Manon has put out to now has really clicked with me, and even seeing her live…

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