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Cooking For You

ByPatrick St. Michel March 4, 2010

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.

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New Halfby: “Slow Banana” Featuring Alfred Beach Sandal
ByPatrick St. Michel January 29, 2016

Kyoto’s Halfby really should always stick close to the coast. The producer has been creating zany sample-centric music for over a decade now, but the clear highlight of that span was when he went full-on tropical for 2010’s The Island Of Curiosity, a deeply warm collection miles ahead of the often overly wacky stuff he…

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New Hideo Nakasako: Phonograph
ByPatrick St. Michel March 22, 2016March 22, 2016

The cosmic-eyeing beat days seem to be over, at least for Hideo Nakasako. He caught our attention two years ago with the spacey set Tiny Place a post-INNIT collection of wobbly beats featuring NASA samples. He’s put out music since, but this month’s Phonograph signals a total shift away from the depths of the universe…

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Trip Equation: OWARIKARA
ByPatrick St. Michel July 8, 2010

Let’s keep this simple…imagine Zazen Boys. Imagine a Zazen Boys prone to drifting off mid-song into bizarre realms. Now stop pretending and click here and listen to OWARIKARA. Specifically, “ドアたち” which goes all over the place in just under five minutes and includes maybe the single best touch any Japanese song has featured this year…

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New LITE: “Image Game”
ByPatrick St. Michel June 23, 2010

Instrumental math-rockers LITE have a new mini album set to come out on July 7, and the first song from this snack of an album has appeared online. “Image Game” features all the hallmarks of “angular” rock, almost excruciatingly timed perfectly. What saves “Image Game” from feeling like times table homework, though, are the more…

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Soft Escape: Haruno’s Flowers Laugh
ByPatrick St. Michel August 16, 2017

Tokyo-based artist Haruno’s Flowers Laugh offers up a brief but comforting set of synth-pop, the sort of fragile music designed to slip into for a bit. The best moments come on the front end, on the two songs featuring guest vocals courtesy of Amegorou, who brings a soft but affecting touch to Haruno’s keyboard-guided melodies…

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Bright Riser: Kingyo’s Sunset
ByPatrick St. Michel August 21, 2018

Omoide Label has a knack for finding artists capable of finding new angles on hyperactive electronic music. Producer Kingyo’s Sunset is a brief shot in the arm, featuring a particularly chipper take on future bass that promotes the rush and fizziness of the style above all else. That’s best captured on the title track, a…

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