99 Letters recently put up a new album of his spastic chiptune music for free over at his blog. It’s a big download, but completely worth the half-hour wait. Booon! shows why 99 Letters frequently pops up on this blog, as his Gameboy-clatter easily morphs song to song from chaotic dance music to rave-esque to more traditional pop structure. All while still sounding distinctly like 99 Letters. The things only available for the next month, so get on it now.
Osaka’s Outdoorminer – the club-leaning moniker of the same dude behind Cloudy Busey and the vocalist of Ice Cream Shout – has returned. “I’m making an hour long set of soulful techno for this summer. here’s a preview!!,” he writes below “My Love Is Like…,” itself a reimagining of Mya’s “My Love Is Like Wo.”…
Here’s a new one from Molice, called “Fatima.” It’s some solid follow-the-bouncing-ball rock, improved drastically by the lead vocals, which remind me of (oddly enough) the matter-of-fact delivery of Vanilla Beans. Well, only during the verses…the chorus bursts open as Molice tend to do. The above video also finds the band falling in love with…
Nagoya-based electronic artist Noah’s new album Siviutie came out today in Japan via Flau. If you live in Japan, definitely go get that, otherwise you should pre-order because it is one of the best albums released out of this side of the world thus far in 2015. I’ll have a bit more about Noah and…
This seemed inevitable. Happy Kuru Kuru is one of those idol groups who have long used contemporary cuddly sounds — cough cough kawaii bass if you please cough cough — as a basis for their sound, working with producers such as Yunomi and Yuigot on chirpy cuts. So why not hook up with the producer…
文化の中心は東京だと思われがちですが、関西も同様に栄えています。それでも大阪や京都の印象が強いですよね。ここ２年くらいその２つの場所ではダンス・ミュージックが盛り上がっていましたし。かつての首都であり、大仏や鹿が有名な奈良はどうでしょうか？良いアーティストを多数輩出しているものの、あまりダンス・ミュージックのイメージはありませんね。でもそんな奈良からも最近Sakasaというアーティストが出てきて、Coin Bender EPでは前向きなビートやノイズを奏でています。”Let your body dance, and let your brain dance more,” と説明されるこの三曲入りEPからは、名古屋のHouse Of Tapesとも共通点を感じます。どちらもメンタルとフィジカル両方に響くので。一曲目のタイトル・トラックなんかは特にそうで、歯医者のドリルみたいな身震いしそうな激しいノイズでビートが構築されています。”Pond”では逆に柔らかな印象。華やかなシンセのレイヤーが乗っているビートがこちらも徐々に重なっていきます。体を動かすにも世界観にも浸るにも適した美しい曲です。
Cleverness can wilt to novelty quickly, and it isn’t easy to avoid the plunge to meme hell. Japanese juke producer Gnyonpix’s Juke Chips presents an idea that could go wrong if done poorly — what if juke, but 8-bit? Which, to be clear, isn’t totally radical. Those sounds pop up in footwork-ready tracks all the…