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

ByPatrick St. Michel October 21, 2009

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Robo Meat: DELI “Itsumademo”
ByPatrick St. Michel July 1, 2010

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mImejKvKn4M&hl=en_US&fs=1&] I’m pretty much in full agreement with Neaux when he labels Japanese rapper DELI’s song “Itsumademo” as “WTF.” Everything about this dude and song seems head scratching…Autotune, a video where symbolism comes via someone overfilling various cups, the fact this guy’s named freakin’ DELI. This should just be an e-mail attachment to a message…

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Those Late Vibes: Suibots’ Selfish Youth EP
ByPatrick St. Michel October 19, 2016

Maybe indie-pop just hits better on late afternoons, especially on busy days where you kind of rather would just be sprawled out on a couch, but Suibots’ recently released Selfish Youth EP sounds particularly nice today. It is a brief four-song set, a synth-accented collection borrowing from the melancholy and, at least on “April Youth,”…

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DJ Yakult Lady: “Yakult (Stay) Gold”
ByPatrick St. Michel July 31, 2014

I mean…the thing is, most of “Yakult (Stay) Gold” sounds really woodsy, all flutes and subtle percussion, except for when DJ Yakult Lady lets her (?) Jersey Club love sneak into the track via bed squeaks and hyped-up electronics. There’s a drama to this song that’s pretty surprising given…well, one second…hinted at by the clash…

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Good, But Strange, Vibrations: Casio Toruko Onsen’s “Biwako Wanwan Oukoku”
ByPatrick St. Michel September 28, 2017

What are the hot trends in Japanese music right now? You could point to a few musical similarities, or you could try to deduce something larger from big songs such as Daoko’s big breakout hit, or Hoshino Gen’s gloopy TV theme song. Yet I would say what’s happening now is nothing specific, that things are…

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New Pavilion Xool: Stick Around
ByPatrick St. Michel October 17, 2017

Plenty of producers make some slight changes to familiar songs, failing to offer new perspective on the number. Pavilion Xool offers the opposite on Stick Around. Take “Glass Streeeeet,” which builds around a sample of Mint Condition’s “Breakin’ My Heart (Pretty Brown Eyes).” It isn’t straightforward, but rather the Tokyo producer plays around with the…

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Trekkie Trax Crew And Nakamura Minami (Teng Gang Starr) Team Up For “Reiwa”
ByPatrick St. Michel May 1, 2019

This is going to be very tired sometime very soon, but let’s savor the genuine thrill of history while it lasts. The Reiwa era is here in Japan, and it was a genuinely cool moment that saw celebrations all over the country and at least one guy somersault onto a boat. Shared moments — pretty…

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