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Controlled Karaoke: Japanese Duo Do Best Simon & Garfunkel Impression

ByPatrick St. Michel October 1, 2009

They also try out some tunes by The Stylistics and The Gypsy Kings. Dudes got the Garfunkel hair down, though.

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New :visited: “Touch Your Heat”
ByPatrick St. Michel July 7, 2011

Easy thing to forget when talking about CUZ ME PAIN – they sorta sprung out of DJ culture, and even the darkest stuff they put out has a thump. This new song courtesy of :visited works as a great reminder of the label’s origins without being as boring as a history lesson – “Touch Your…

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Sparse-ish Round-Up Featuring Fmifmi And Albino
ByPatrick St. Michel November 28, 2017November 28, 2017

Let’s make this Tuesday at least begin a little easier with two relatively sparse songs. The first comes from Sapporo producer Fmifmi, and it’s a soft number called “Sofa.” It teeters on the verge of being just a hip-hop beat — a track in search of a voice — but Fmifmi allows some mumbled voices…

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New Satanicpornocultshop: The Rise And Fall Of…
ByPatrick St. Michel April 3, 2018

This year is already feeling like a particularly strong one for Japan’s juke community, with plenty more to come. Yet Osaka outfit Satanicpornocultshop just went and dropped the first great front-to-back album of 2018. The Rise And Fall Of… doesn’t mark any massive departure from their usual sound, nor does it find them even pushing…

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New De De Mouse: “Remember Night”
ByPatrick St. Michel August 19, 2016

Producer De De Mouse’s signature sound is sliced-up vocals, the long-running artist taking split-second cuts of singing and turning them into syllabic candy. He’s just released a new EP, the Summer Twilight set, and this season he’s getting into the festival spirit. “Remember Night” is the opening number on the album, and De De Mouse…

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Sad But Good: Sleet Mage’s Astral Body Boi
ByPatrick St. Michel December 16, 2017

For me, a lot of Japanese rap ends up the missing mark not because artists are taking heavy cues from American artists, but because they forget to build from that base and find their own voice (which, funny enough, is a trapping of artists around the world, and in America too). It doesn’t take long…

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New Attic Note: “Happening”
ByPatrick St. Michel August 10, 2017

Tokyo-based producer Attic Note delivers a solid electronic track with “Happening,” a bit of pitch-bended sharpness that plays around with a familiar approach but hits on something all its own. It wasn’t that long ago that tipsy numbers anchored by vocals manipulated to be faster or slower were the dominant sound of the community here,…

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