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8-bit warriors YMCK join fellow Japanese group Lullatone in jumping on the iPhone app bandwagon. “YMCK Player” allows users to play a video-game-sounding keyboard and even improvise over songs already on your Apple product. The application…which will cost ya a mere 350 yen…also comes with a new YMCK jam.
Oh you can listen to their music here.
Maybe winter has just felt particularly tough on the thermostat this year, but “Topia” sounds extra warm and inviting right about now. It’s right in indie-pop band I Saw You Yesterday’s wheelhouse, seeing as the bulk of their releases up to this point have been designed for warmer climes, or at least geared towards those…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y2kYQB5nVA”] The above song, off of rapper Wiz Khalifa’s recently released Taylor Allderdice mixtape, features a beat by Tokyo producer Bugseed from his 2010 album Bohemian Beatnik called “Travelog.” Listen to the original below: [youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOw6nEwggag”] Khalifa is definitely rapping over the Bugseed beat. Problem is, the track doesn’t credit Bugseed for the song, but rather…
Shoegaze endears in the Japanese music community. Walk around certain music-leaning neighborhoods in the capital and the odds of bumping into someone who spends their Thursdays after work getting lost in distortion is pretty high. The downside to this is a lot of groups who listen to Nowhere on a weekly basis making songs that…
Perhaps you’ve heard the word “kawaii” used…a ton over the past year? I mean, more than usual (especially if you teach junior high school children), as “kawaii” was brought out to describe all sorts of artists, ranging from an expected J-pop star like Kyary Pamyu Pamyu but also for the loopy likes of SOPHIE and…
I’m hesitant to admit it, but the reason I gave Schloder a click in the first place was because of their impressive array of hoodies featured in the photo above. It reminded me of that one Mae Shi video where they all wore different colored shirts. I’m easily amused by colors. Schloder’s newest song, “Forget…
Osaka’s electronic music community has produced a lot of different sounds — wonky, funky, house-leaning, hard-hitting, abstract. But I’m not really sure anyone in the last few years has really sounded particularly menacing. Well, producer Yullippe is here with the rumbling, intimidating Loop Bell set. She’s (and this is important, given how male-centric Osaka’s electronic…