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Controlled Karaoke: Ultraman Meets “Thriller,” Acid Trip Ensues

ByPatrick St. Michel December 7, 2009

Just…wow. Good job Japan. You can stop the video at the 2:20 mark, the monsters stop dancing at that point.

kaiju dance
by gariisenab

(Via Japan Probe)

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New Anemone: Killing Me Softly
ByPatrick St. Michel June 6, 2017

Dreams are never an easy escape. They are, after all, fantasy — they end, and even the sweetest mental zone-out eventually pivots back into reality. This tension lurks in the corners of duo Anemone’s first EP Killing Me Softly, a lush two-song set that retreats into a hazy fog but always has one foot just…

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New Sima Kim And Ryuei Kotoge Featuring Illap: “Seoul”
ByPatrick St. Michel April 6, 2015April 6, 2015

Korea’s Sima Kim and Japan’s Ryuei Kotoge have teamed up a lot in the past, and the end results have always been memorable. Now, on new collaboration “Seoul,” they’ve added another voice to the mix via Korean rap group Illap, whose voices get stretched out and (seemingly) rewound throughout this one. Listen above.

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New Paellas: “Orange”
ByPatrick St. Michel October 18, 2018

It isn’t a total move into the sunlight, but “Orange” finds Paellas moving the curtains back a little bit. It is there first “digital single,” so I suppose they wanted to avoid the backstreet glow of breakout “Shooting Star” this time around. A synth-melody pops along for most of the song, while the drum beat…

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Love Like Ice: MPEG_7’s (Formerly Athena) Diamond True
ByPatrick St. Michel October 30, 2016

I had to turn my apartment heater on for the first time Sunday evening, which means winter is probably still a month away for people with a normal tolerance to colder weather. Yet in preparation (and, well, for me now, I guess), producer MPEG_& (formerly known as Athena) has a new three-song album called Diamond…

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Submerged: AZUpubschool’s Harbor
ByPatrick St. Michel February 24, 2016February 24, 2016

For the past two days, I’ve been revisiting a lot of articles for another piece I’m working on about a certain famous pair of musicians who went supernova about two years ago. In these interviews, they talk at length about how computers can’t really be musical instruments, and how it isn’t the same man as…

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Two Views Of The Same Pop: Jan Flu’s Jan Flu
ByPatrick St. Michel January 25, 2017

Here are my top three blogging dilemmas (if things so ultimately trivial warrant that title): 1. Should albums and singles released via Apple Music or other streaming services get on here? 2. Do I write about Japanese artists who have moved to other countries? 3. Are demo tracks ever worth writing about? That last one…

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