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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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Controlled Karaoke: Wiz Khalifa Song Features A Beat By Tokyo Producer Bugseed, Does Not Actually Mention That Bugseed Produced It
ByPatrick St. Michel March 26, 2012

[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…

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A Good Place: ELEN NEVER SLEEPS China Blue EP
ByPatrick St. Michel August 9, 2011

It’s super tempting to call Tokyo artist ELEN NEVER SLEEPS “shoegaze,” mainly because dude offered the world a cover of My Bloody Valentine’s “When You Sleep.” [youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2OuzjMp4Ws”] ELEN NEVER SLEEPS certainly boasts characteristics of that sound, but even his take on the Loveless classic reveals something a bit more complex. There are traces of “hipster…

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Smudged Surprise: Tempalay’s “Kakumei Zenya”
ByPatrick St. Michel June 4, 2017

Tempalay seemed like a pretty forgettable rock band in 2016. The group released an album called From Japan, and the songs within sounded like most of the other Mac DeMarco-derived sunny-day rock that was just starting to take off — in no hurry, practically bored with itself, some forced wackiness (especially in videos). But this…

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Music Alliance Pact February 2016
ByPatrick St. Michel February 15, 2016

Time for the second installment of MAP for 2016, featuring a special collaboration between one of Tokyo’s finest wonky trackmakers and a rising Taiwan-based producer. Listen to it…and many more…below. Click the play button icon to listen to individual songs, right-click on the song title to download an mp3, or grab a zip file of…

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Love You Forever: Hminh
ByPatrick St. Michel July 13, 2010

According to MySpace, Hminh’s influences: “Beat Happening, The Magnetic Fields, Minor Threat.” Now, I can hear a little Stephen Merritt in this duo’s indie-pop, and I wouldn’t be shocked if they subscribed to the same DIY philosophies of Minor Threat. But when it comes to Hminh’s actual sound, only the first band listed comes through….

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New C.I.T.Y. – “Secret Touch” Featuring Chap:pee
ByPatrick St. Michel October 22, 2014

Fukuoka’s C.I.T.Y. has made relatively chilled-out songs for a little bit now, and the project’s latest is an especially breezy hopper. “Secret Touch” bounces along, built for early evenings, and is blessed with a great vocal, presumably from Chap:pee. Always good to keep one ear focused on Western Japan, and here is another outfit to…

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