Cooking For You
No reason to waste words on this one – let the drifting guitars and occasional bleeping chaos wash over you as you listen to Cooking For You. Enveloping stuff.
No reason to waste words on this one – let the drifting guitars and occasional bleeping chaos wash over you as you listen to Cooking For You. Enveloping stuff.
First, a site tease: expect a mini-review of Baroque’s debut EP Waste Your Time very soon. Thought, to offer up a quick summary sans flowery metaphors, it’s pretty great. In other Baroque news, the heavy-hitting music producer recently remixed British buzz-kids Delphic and their single “Doubt.” The original track resembled a slightly moodier Klaxons track…
Japanese imprint Kirara Records shared a new compilation album earlier this week, titled Constract 6F and featuring some great dance tunes courtesy of some rising producers. The name that caught our attention was Maidable, whose comp-closing “To You” is the mellowest moment here, accented by horn snippets and breezy synth lines. But the songs preceding…
This one got lost in the New-Year’s-eve shuffle, but two weeks on it still goes strong so…Osaka’s Ryuei Kotoge created a lot of great music in 2014 (including the just-outside-our-top-20 Undo, Redo), and he closed out a productive 12 months with this six song set. It’s an affirmation of what he’s been doing for a…
The bedtown sounds of i-fls always sound appropriate for walks…that is, after all, the activity you’re most likely to engage in when living in a suburb and have a lot on your mind. No Start Point / Earphone Song presents a swifter version of the dreamy Garageband symphonies the producer has been making over the…
Especia – Secret Jive by tubesoda 1. The first taste of Especia’s major-label debut left me on the fence, but in all honesty my real feelings became clear soon after. I haven’t listened to or watched the video for “We Are Especia ~ Naki Nagara Video” once since that first post. Considering all of the…
I’m always ready uncork the same adjectives with high-energy producers such as Hiroki Yamamura — like “high-energy” — that something like “Frosty Cake” is a total curveball that makes my go-to vocabulary worthless. It still rumbles ahead on a juke-inspired beat, which has been Yamamura’s base for so many lightspeed numbers. But here, everything feels…