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New Boris Video: “H.M.A. – Heavy Metal Addict

ByPatrick St. Michel October 21, 2009

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New Sleet Mage: “Owari”
ByPatrick St. Michel January 22, 2018

It’s important not too go overboard when talking about an intriguing newer artist and overlook the past in the process. Sleet Mage’s music certainly allows its strings to other artists show through — feel free to drop an essay about how the current wave of “SoundCloud rappers” have a deep appreciation of anime, and how…

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Soutaiseiriron: “Miss Parallel World”
ByPatrick St. Michel April 28, 2010

The main talking point when dealing with Soutaiseiriron is usually the band’s relative mysteriousness. Japan Live runs down the band (translates to “Theory Of Relativity” in case you wondered) and their secretive ways pretty well, but here’s the Sparksnotes version – group boasts very few publicity shots, a blank MySpace page and make it clear…

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New Taquwami: “All My Life”
ByPatrick St. Michel December 5, 2012December 5, 2012

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。

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New Erik Luebs: Wasteland
ByPatrick St. Michel April 10, 2017

Osaka-based artist Erik Luebs recently released his latest, Wasteland, and though we are a bit behind, it is worth catching up on, as the three-song set makes for an engrossing, at times dark listen. A lot of that was previewed in advance track “Red C,” which leads off here and sets the mood. It isn’t…

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Stuff We Missed Catch-Up Post Final: Kaela Kimura, The Mornings And Her Ghost Friend
ByPatrick St. Michel November 28, 2011

This is the final installment of this feature, mostly as a way to get a few brief comments in about albums that could very well appear on our Top 30 albums of the year list (fast approaching, whoa!). Some of the below could even land pretty high up…. Kaela Kimura 8Eight8 Somehow, Kaela Kimura’s new…

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Orange Milk Shares Some Tour Memories With Foodman, CVN And More
ByPatrick St. Michel June 25, 2018

America’s Orange Milk recently wrapped up a tour of Japan and, despite a few setbacks — mainly, the lack of Giant Claw — they put on a great set of experimental loopiness (well, at least at the Tokyo leg at WWW I attended). As they are central to the label as a whole, the performances…

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