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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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Soft As Snow But Warm Inside: “Vogue”
ByPatrick St. Michel October 17, 2012October 17, 2012

“Soft As Snow (But Warm Inside)” was the opening track on My Bloody Valentine’s debut full-length Isn’t Anything, released in 1988. Seeing a band named after that track…minus the parenthesis…prompts all sorts of assumptions, most of them tied to words like “shoegaze.” Although this Japanese duo shares a few elements in common with Kevin Shield’s…

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New AOTQ: E-muzak
ByPatrick St. Michel April 18, 2018

The influence of vaporwave is starting to become clear. The internet-based niche genre of electronic music that turned into a visual aesthetic has recently started being visually adopted by legit mainstream artists in the West, while musically more producers are taking cues from it — or at least being inspired by it. Japan, more so…

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New Seiho: “Tear Off The Dress”
ByPatrick St. Michel May 25, 2018

Seiho has moved in so many different directions over the last few years. He’s hit on abstract jazz and, most recently, rumbling electronic music…and that’s not counting his various pop-related productions.”Tear Off The Dress” finds a midway point between most of those styles. The horn toots meld just right with the warped vocal samples dripping…

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Dorian Remixes アナ’s “TEI”
ByPatrick St. Michel June 21, 2011April 11, 2019

Let’s start with the original version of “TEI” – アナ made an enjoyable bit of indie-pop bolstered by a few theatrical touches – see, that gong and those guitars and maybe just that general glow of “bigness” pulsing underneath the whole track. It also has a bit of a leg-moving feel thanks to the drum…

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What You Make Of It: Sayohimebou’s Virtua JD Harem $ Arena 3 Gou
ByPatrick St. Michel October 19, 2017October 19, 2017

New Masterpiece isn’t a label I’d associate with Japan’s wilder experimental side. The imprint dabbles in vaporwave and a few other hazed-out sounds, but in general they seem like a dance label fluctuating between high-energy and past-glazed hoppers. But the latest from Sayohimebou approaches the head-splitting wildness of Wasabi Tapes or Moyas, with a healthy…

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New House Of Tapes: “Noise Attack”
ByPatrick St. Michel September 11, 2012September 12, 2012

Recently on Twitter, I saw someone write (and I paraphrase) that expecting dance music to be about anything more than dancing or fucking is ridiculous. Nagoya’s House Of Tapes envision another use on new song “Noise Attack” – sonic assault. True to its name, “Noise Attack” is an often unrelenting but always engaging listen, every…

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