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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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Make Believe Melodies’ Favorite 2019 Japanese Albums: #10 – #01
ByPatrick St. Michel January 23, 2020January 30, 2020

#10 Wai Wai Music Resort WWMR 1 If total number of plays need to be considered for any favorites list, Wai Wai Music Resort ran away with my 2019. Whether because I needed to concentrate on work or simply wanted a stereophonic sound trip bound for endless summer, WWMR 1 delivered pure breeze. It’s also…

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New 80Kidz: 80:05
ByPatrick St. Michel January 18, 2017January 18, 2017

80:05 reflects a simplification of sorts for the electro duo 80Kidz. They’ve never exactly been a particularly straightforward unit, having come up during the heyday of blown-out bloghouse. And their music has always been a very hit or miss undertaking (again, bloghouse), but the moments of brilliance always used to balance out the cringe-ier exercises…

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New Hoshina Anniversary: “Everybody Plays The Music”
ByPatrick St. Michel January 26, 2011

A lot of words get mushed together on Hoshina Anniversary’s new track “Everybody Plays The Music.” Yet it’s the titular phrase that manages to escape unscathed and take center spotlight, emerging from the throbbing electronics to serve as the song’s (intelligible) chorus. The rest of “Everybody Plays The Music” features sliced-up vocals (or French???) that…

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Fuzzed Dessert: Fairy Floss
ByPatrick St. Michel March 24, 2014

The one sonic element uniting all of information-lacking project Fairy Floss‘ music is how mum the lead vocals sound. Everything else is subject to change track to track – “Just” barrels forward on punk guitar chugs, while “Sugar Drems” is all drum-machine stutters, twinkling electronics and melodica. Yet both songs, whether playing it abrasive or…

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New Fuji Chao: Inorganic Pupil
ByPatrick St. Michel February 7, 2017

Cuteness has become one of the more dominant traits of just-outside-of-mainstream Japanese music over the last few years, with producers piling on the bells, xylophones and assorted doo-dads to create playroom-ready compositions that feel like they are on cola number six. Many of those releases come alongside artwork done up in an anime style, full…

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Truly Beat: New Okadada, MFP And Night Vision
ByPatrick St. Michel July 4, 2012

If the artists gracing the covers of music magazines who make more aggressive strands of electronic music aren’t really your thing, here is a trio of Japanese producers whose latest tracks are relatively chilled-out affairs, the sort of stuff made for lazy summer days. Osaka’s Okadada released two new tracks this week – “Cee” resembles…

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