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

ByPatrick St. Michel October 21, 2009

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[Via Pitchfork]

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Smudged Surprise: Tempalay’s “Kakumei Zenya”
ByPatrick St. Michel June 4, 2017

Tempalay seemed like a pretty forgettable rock band in 2016. The group released an album called From Japan, and the songs within sounded like most of the other Mac DeMarco-derived sunny-day rock that was just starting to take off — in no hurry, practically bored with itself, some forced wackiness (especially in videos). But this…

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Play The Game: Fogpak 15 Featuring Chocoholic, Gigandect And Many More
ByPatrick St. Michel March 16, 2016

A friend and I had a long talk today about what’s going on in indie Japanese music…well, and J-pop…and came to the conclusion things are pretty strange. Mainstream artists are letting all sorts of ideas into their songs, and the underground seems just as much all over the place. Yet one place we agreed was…

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New Metome: Angel EP
ByPatrick St. Michel January 19, 2015

Last year, Osaka producer Metome released his full-length Objet at the very, very start of 2014. It was a whirlwind of an album, created so that every bass slap and pitched-up vocal sample hit at just the right spot, and was one of the year’s best in Japan. Well, Metome appears to like dropping fantastic…

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New Mecanika: Newtone
ByPatrick St. Michel May 10, 2018

Here’s a nice case of a circle coming together. The past two years have made it clear that a new generation of artists are coming up in Japan’s electronic underground, and that they appear to have spent at least some time digging into Maltine Record’s catalog (not to mention tofubeat’s work). So Mecanika putting out…

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New Shigge Burn Out
ByPatrick St. Michel October 3, 2017

Streaming in Japan is a weird topic to tackle. It still hasn’t taken off at the level I imagine global giants such as Spotify and Apple would have hoped by now, but it does offer a new angle on the music scene here, and alongside YouTube has made it easier than ever to block out…

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New Your Gold, My Pink: “Virgin Suicides”
ByPatrick St. Michel February 14, 2012

Your Gold, My Pink have some real stones on them. They’ve named their debut full-length album…out next Wednesday…Teenage Riot, which also happens to be the title of one of the best rock songs ever recorded (in my humble opinion). Not content to stare down Sonic Youth, the album’s first single is called “Virgin Suicides,” which…

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