ここで7月の私たちの新しいMake Believe Mixです！
Taquwami “Romantic Gaze” – From the Blurrywonder EP.
Elen Never Sleeps “Slow (Neu)” – Online release.
BOYISH “The Hidden Secrets” – From The Hidden Secrets EP.
The Paellas “Following” – From the Following EP.
Rapunzel8083 “Dalí Jazz” – Online release.
東京のインディー・ポップグループ、BoyishのSoundcloudにはもう一ヶ月程前から”Farewell Kisses”という曲が公開されていたのですが、今度は嬉しい事にビデオが公開されました。ギターの主張の強いBoyishらしい楽曲をお楽しみ下さい。
８月も終わり、Make Believe Mixとして先月のフェイバリット・トラックを紹介させて頂きます。インディー・ポップやダンス等ジャンルも幅広く、Fancy Books,、Moscow ClubやNight Visionのトラックが収録されています。 以下はミックスに協力して頂いたアーティストのトラックリストです。リリース順になっています。 Fancy Books “Sister Carry Stars” – Wisteria EPより、購入はこちらから。 Jolie Joli “Dreaming Girl” – サイトより、視聴はこちらから。 Lilacs “Our Mistakes” – サイトより、視聴はこちらから。 Moscow Club “Sanatorium” – Radio Vietnam EPより、購入はこちらから。 YYSHIDD “Naomi’s Love Affair” – サイトより、視聴はこちらから。 Night Vision “I Decide” – サイトより、視聴はこちらから。
Make Believe Melodiesは今月のMusic Alliance Pactに埼玉のデュオ、Fancy Booksの“Sister Carry Stars”を紹介させて頂いています。世界中から紹介されている他のトラックも勿論聴いて頂けます。視聴は以下から。 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 the whole 38-track compilation through Ge.tt here. JAPAN: Make Believe Melodies Fancy Books – Sister Carry Stars Saitama duo Fancy Books takes…
Fall is here, and here’s the first Music Alliance Pact of the season. MAP, if you are stumbling across this for the first time, is a monthly feature wherein 30-plus blogs from around the world share one song from their representative country. Make Believe Melodies covers Japan, and this month we put the spotlight on…
東京のプロデューサーTaquwamiは様々な挑戦をしてきました。激しい曲や繊細な曲、サンプル重視の曲や貝殻を耳に当てているような幻想的な曲、Occult Youの活動を除いても、彼の手がけた楽曲は大変バラエティーに富んでいます。新曲”All My Life”ではそんなTaquwamiの得意なサンプリングやエレクトロ・サウンドが輝きつつも、新たな挑戦も随所にちりばめられています。今年リリースされたBlurrywonder EPはR&BをTaquwami流のシンセの渦に巻き込んだようなサウンドだったのですが、今回の”All My Life”はより正統派なR&Bに。曲の前半を埋め尽くしているミニマルなビートはまるでUsherの”Climax”のよう。空気感に影響されてなのか、ボーカルサンプルはいつもよりもつぶやきがちで暗い印象に聴こえてきます。後半ではいつものスタイルが展開されていくのですが、”All My Life”はTaquwamiの新たな一面を確かに確認できる曲になっています。試聴はこちらから。
今月のMusic Alliance PactでMake Believe Melodiesはmus.hibaの”Magical Fizzy Drink”を紹介させて頂きました。この曲を含め、世界中のブログがプッシュしている曲を聴く事ができます。視聴は以下から。 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 the whole 39-track compilation through Ge.tt here. JAPAN: Make Believe Melodies mus.hiba – Magical Fizzy Drink Magical Fizzy Drink features vocals courtesy of…
Here’s a new Make Believe Mix, highlighting some of our favorite music from July. Lot of variety this time around, ranging from the fidgety electronic sounds of Taquwami, the dreamy meditations of Elen Never Sleeps, the indie-pop stylings of BOYISH and The Paellas, and the surrealist whatever-you-call-it music of Rapunzel8083.
Below is a list of artists and songs appearing in this month’s mix, in chronological order. All artists featured gave me permission to include their music in this mix.
Taquwami “Romantic Gaze” – From the Blurrywonder EP.
Elen Never Sleeps “Slow (Neu)” – Online release.
BOYISH “The Hidden Secrets” – From The Hidden Secrets EP.
The Paellas “Following” – From the Following EP.
Rapunzel8083 “Dalí Jazz” – Online release.
I swear, dear reader, that I have seen new Taquwami streak across my Twitter feed/SoundCloud dashboard, before vanishing without any traces. Either songs got uploaded really quickly before being taken down for whatever reason…or I’ve been wanting to hear new Taquwami songs so badly I’ve been hallucinating them. Well, at last, here’s a legit one…
What’s always made Taquwami’s music stand out from the crowd of similarly minded — and in most cases, very good — SoundCloud-orbiting producers is how he seemingly wants his music to sound genuinely alien. Most artists that could be generally tagged as “SoundCloud producers” come off as types who just like bending sounds, stretching vocal…
Minneapolis’ duo Elite Gymnastics have become a very strange authority within the American indie music scene – besides releasing blog-backed music sometimes wearing a chillwave mask, they’ve become the group responsible for introducing Korean pop to the American indie-scape. In interviews they’ve pledged allegiance to all sorts of K-Pop stars and recently member James Brooks…
Taking a break from wandering around Summer Sonic to post this month’s MAP! From Japan (yay, I remembered to do it), we focus on Clone, a Tokyo producer using Pikmin to create a galloping number. Listen to it — and a lot more music from around the globe — below. Click the play button icon…
Special weekend post given how lazy I got during Golden Week. Taquwami, fresh off appearing in a Lapalux mix, gives the world a sleepy new track to close out the weekend. “Sɦell∞” stands in stark contrast to the last few tracks to trickle out of Taquwami’s computer – recently, he’s been on a Clams-Casino-like trip,…
Despite releasing so much music over the past year, none of Taquwami’s music to this point has ever sounded particularly romantic. His tracks evoked feelings of wonder, warmth, peacefulness and all sorts of other emotions, but never seemed to touch on the ultimate song theme – love. He didn’t even reserve those for his Occult…