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Controlled Karaoke: Jim O’Rourke Sings Enka

ByPatrick St. Michel January 18, 2011

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The audio seems kinda weird and doesn’t always match up with the video…but whatever, here’s Jim O’Rourke singing an Enka song.

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Hyper Reality: Lolica Tonica’s “Make Me Feel”
ByPatrick St. Michel August 27, 2015August 27, 2015

Lolica Tonica contributed one of the highlights on the latest Fogpak compilation, and they aren’t slowing down. Lolica Tonica have a new EP prepped for Trekkie Trax in September, and that netlabel has gone ahead and shared the title track to it, “Make Me Feel.” This sort of giddy, vocals-sliced-like-onions sound has become pretty common…

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New Toyu: Get Together EP
ByPatrick St. Michel March 30, 2015

Nagano producer Toyu isn’t afraid to get wonky. The youngster’s latest two-song offering, the Get Together EP, opens with a track off in its own weird, wonderful universe, featuring creaky singing buried under layers of electronics and a digi-carnival fizz. This might be what Sekai No Owari sounds like in the Twilight Zone. Yet the…

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Stream Madegg’s New Now
ByPatrick St. Michel November 12, 2015

One of the Japanese albums we were most looking forward to this fall is streaming over at Red Bull Music. Kyoto producer Madegg’s clanging New is up, and you can listen over here.

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New The Bed Town: “Kizuato”
ByPatrick St. Michel September 17, 2015

Bedroom musician The Bed Town went away for a long stretch of time, but this summer he announced he was back with some new material (and a scattering of live shows). One of those fresh songs is “Kizuato,” a plinky-plonky number that offers a sparse backdrop for The Bed Town to sing over. His voice…

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NITES Catches The Chillwave, Remixes Hotel Mexico
ByPatrick St. Michel August 19, 2010

NITES either really really likes “It’s Twinkle” or he thinks it could use some reworking…spoiler alert, I’m pretty sure it’s option one. Dude went and made two remixes of Hotel Mexico’s breakthrough track and posted them at his MySpace. Version one morphs the song into a wide-eyed piece of bedroom pop, NITES strong suite. Version…

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New Browned Butter: Fall EP
ByPatrick St. Michel June 27, 2018

Kyoto’s Browned Butter follow up this Spring’s galloping “Fall” — the first song the group shared online — with an EP kicking off with that impressive debut. “Fall” remains one of the year’s best indie-pop numbers out of Japan’s still-vibrant community, an energetic number marked by just-exhaled vocals and a rough edge to the guitar….

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