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Cubs More Like Flubs: immi – “Sign Of Love”

ByPatrick St. Michel May 31, 2010

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A quick Google search for “immi” reveals a couple articles and message board threads comparing the trancey singer’s musical production to Daft Punk. Since this is my first exposure to the all lower-caps immi, I can’t really verify if that’s true. If we assume it’s true…the best journalism here folks…then on latest single “Sign Of Love” she ditches the Tron-soundtracking robots in favor of The Chemical Brothers. Specifically, “Star Guitar.” Check the beat on “Sign Of Love” which nicks the same one used by the Brothers, which gets placed underneath a shimmering veil of electronics…like “Star Guitar.” It’s great production inspired by a great song, but what makes “Sign Of Love” great not just for popping E to is immi’s singing. Predictably great pop singing untouched by Autotune adds a needed catchy element into the song’s DNA, transforming “Sign Of Love” from a heady track into a much more urgent pop song.

Also, though I’m glad some brave soul posted the full song on YouTube, why set it to pictures of Wrigley Field? When I think of dance-ready J-Pop I don’t think about Carlos Zambrano.

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New LSTNGT: “Hydropolis”

ByPatrick St. Michel July 2, 2018

LSTNGT will take part in a new compilation coming out via Eco Futurism Corporation later this week, and their “Hydropolis” serves as a preview of what to expect. It’s one to bathe in, at least for a little bit — the first stretch of the song features sampled chanting played behind the sort of synths…

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New YAGI: Flowers EP

ByPatrick St. Michel July 5, 2012July 9, 2012

There is a moment on the song “Joints” from beatmaker YAGI’s new EP Flowers in which he coolly admits his major source of inspiration. Relatively early into the song – and only for a second or two, and only once at that – you can hear the same siren sample the late J. Dilla used…

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80s Double Feature: Satellite Young’s “Don’t Graduate Senpai” And Rei Kuromiya And Kosmo Kat’s “Ucyujin”

ByPatrick St. Michel January 12, 2016

Ahhh, the 1980s…you hear about ’em? Plenty of Japanese artists have, and try their darndest to imitate them the best they can, to mixed results. Given the ongoing push behind “new city pop” and a sure to never set interest in neon-soaked keyboard lines, 2016 is sure to be chocked full of this stuff (along…

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New Xinlisupreme: “J-Pop”

ByPatrick St. Michel November 7, 2019

So far in 2019, there have been two prominent J-pop songs about J-pop itself, at least to some degrees. Teenager SASUKE practically gives the industry an entire pep talk with a song going to great lengths to tell you J-pop will never end (raising the stakes significantly with a line about how “Japanese people will…

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New Especia: “Danger”

ByPatrick St. Michel December 8, 2016

The thing about Especia is…they still sound like Especia. The group’s actual structure changed radically this year — an idol group being transformed into a more…focused? What’s the opposite of idol?… trio shedding the idol tag, featuring a new member. They basically became brand new, reflected in a new visual style that rejects A E…

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New Dustin Wong And Takako Minekawa: “Elastic Astral Peel”

ByPatrick St. Michel May 12, 2017

Usually, Japan gets new movies or TV shows way later than the rest of the world. But sometimes it works the other way too — I figured Dustin Wong and Takako Minekawa’s latest album Are Euphoria was out everywhere, since you can find it at music stores here in Tokyo. But nope! It comes out…

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