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.
Music Alliance Pactは３０以上の国から毎月それぞれ国のブログがアーティストを１組ずつ紹介しています。今月我々は日本が誇る最良のバンドの１つである京都のHotel Mexicoを紹介しました。彼らの”A.I. In Dreams”を含む、世界中から寄せられた最高の音楽をご堪能あれ。 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 full 39-track compilation through Ge.tt here. JAPAN: Make Believe Melodies Hotel Mexico – A.I. In Dreams Hotel Mexico, hailing from the historic city…
The Music Alliance Pact (MAP)は、30ヵ国以上のブログが集結し、月に一度、その国の曲を紹介し合うというプロジェクトです。Make Believe Melodiesは、日本の曲を紹介させて頂いてるのですが、今月はシティ・ポップスを蘇らせたGreeen Linezを選びました。”Palm Coast Freeway”は、彼等のデビューアルバムThings That Fadeからのとても落ち着いたスムーズな曲で、こちらから購入可能です。この曲も、世界中からシェアされた素晴らしいトラックも、以下から視聴できます。 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 34-track compilation through Ge.tt here. JAPAN: Make Believe Melodies Greeen Linez – Palm Coast Freeway Greeen…
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…
Slowは元々MOSCOW CLUBのC８６コンピレーションに収録されていた楽曲でしたが＜＞今回の再編集を経て（なのでタイトルに新しいを表すNUEとついています）オリジナルよりもクリアーになっています。氷山を彷彿とさせる様な壮大な冷たい空気感のギターとドラムスは彼の歌う歌詞”but you slow down/slow down/slow down,” と重なってゆっくりと流れていきます。オリジナルバージョンも良曲でしたがこのバージョンによってさらに洗練されたと言えると思います。
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がSSENSEというウェブサイトの為に制作した最新ミックスには、”Hate Winter”という新曲が収録されています。暖かく春のような週末にリリースされたのは偶然でしょうか。”Hate Winter”は４０分程あるミックスを締めくくる、ヴォーカル・サンプルやシンセサイザーが心地いい作品になってます。去年のアルバム、Blurrywonderの速いテンポとは違い、ゆっくりとした、瞑想的な楽曲です。Arca、Oneothrix Point NeverとDntel(高校時代の記憶が蘇ります…)みたいなアーティスト達が収録されているミックスのエンディングにふさわしい曲と言えるでしょう。
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.
New year, new Music Alliance Pact post! Why not continue adjusting to 2012 with the help of the following songs, selected by music blogs based all around the world. For MAP this go around, Make Believe Melodies chose ferocious Tokyo rockers Praha Depart and their song “Portrait Man” (which placed #36 in our top songs…
The label compilation serves as a great way to broadcast a mission statement for an imprint – here are the groups support, and this is who we are. Dead Funny Records have put out some excellent materials by the likes of Osaka’s The Paella’s, Saitama’s Fancy Books and Tokyo’s Jappers, but with their first official…
It isn’t a total move into the sunlight, but “Orange” finds Paellas moving the curtains back a little bit. It is there first “digital single,” so I suppose they wanted to avoid the backstreet glow of breakout “Shooting Star” this time around. A synth-melody pops along for most of the song, while the drum beat…
Osaka’s The Paellas have sounded like a lot of things in the past – a dreary-eyed lot playing sad lounges, aggressive indie-poppers, shadow dwellers. Yet on new song “Golden Eye” they sound incredibly…smooth. This easy-going cut still contains the slight muffled vibe that has always given them a mysterious, late-night edge…the vocals still sound like…
Relatively new indie label Ano(t)racks don’t have many releases – they released Osaka group The Paella’s last EP, and dropped an indie-pop compilation titled Soon V.A. last week. Yet the latter upload is one of the best starting points for those looking to get into the current crop of indie-pop bands that have sprung up…
Tokyo producer Taquwami just uploaded a new track to the Internet, which means I must accept not going to bed early to post it. I’m OK with this. “T Eyes” features the same vocal-chopping technique that dotted last year’s great Blurrywonder, but whereas that album especially emphasized the skittering, here the chopped singing is balanced…