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New Boyish: “Farewell Kisses”

ByPatrick St. Michel November 15, 2012

東京のインディー・ポップグループ、BoyishのSoundcloudにはもう一ヶ月程前から”Farewell Kisses”という曲が公開されていたのですが、今度は嬉しい事にビデオが公開されました。ギターの主張の強いBoyishらしい楽曲をお楽しみ下さい。

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New Cokiyu With 34423: “Vapor Doll”
ByPatrick St. Michel March 6, 2013

Cokiyu’s recently released Haku EP is a pretty collection of songs, highlighted by a collaboration with Los-Angeles-based-artist Baths. It is a collection very much worth your time. That said…the Tokyo mood-maker’s once-unreleased-but-now-released song “Vapor Doll” is the best track to emerge from the Haku period so far. It’s a collaboration with Tokyo-based sound artist 34423,…

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Stuff We Missed 2012: stillsound
ByPatrick St. Michel December 10, 2012

still sound isn’t shy about his influences – the name gives away his interest in Toro Y Moi before you even read the SoundCloud bio that calls Chaz Bundick his “bro.” It’s the project of a 17-year-old high-school student named James who lives in Naha on Okinawa – “well, like an hour north” he tells…

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But So Nice!: Shigge’s Naughty
ByPatrick St. Michel August 22, 2013

We got to get Bandcamp to have a wider selection of tags, because Fukuoka producer Shigge tagged his new album as “hip hop,” “instrumental” and “beats.” Those aren’t inherently bad things…most of the time, they are amazing!…it’s just that the Japanese music scene has become so over-saturated by these beat albums that I’ve gotten into…

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PixaPhonica #2 Compilation Featuring Kai Takahashi, Rapunzel8083 And PNDR PSLY
ByPatrick St. Michel March 25, 2013

As mainstream Japanese music continues to revolve around only a handful of pop-leaning acts – the biggest sales all come courtesy of groups with a “48” in their name or a boy group from Johnny’s – underground artists who will never have a shot at breaking through into the Oricon world have turned to the…

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New House Of Tapes: “Warped”
ByPatrick St. Michel September 22, 2013

It took some time, but Nagoya’s House Of Tapes has been starting to push himself into more interesting sonic directions as of late. The project started out as a noisy thing taking conventional dance-music structures and seeing just how heavy he could make his take on floor-filling stuff. This meant a lot of four-on-the-floor beats…

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New Capsule: “Rainbow”
ByPatrick St. Michel July 31, 2013

Yasutaka Nakata has been super busy over the last year and a half producing music for Perfume and Kyary Pamyu Pamyu. He hasn’t had much time to devote to his project Capsule, who haven’t released any new material since 2012’s so-so Stereo Worxxx. At long last, Nakata has put together a new song for his…

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New Boyish: “Farewell Kisses”

ByPatrick St. Michel November 15, 2012

“Farewell Kisses” was up on Tokyo indie-pop group Boyish’s SoundCloud about a month ago, but now it comes attached with a found-footage video. The song is right in Boyish’s comfort zone – the sort of guitar-driven song that you can bounce along too but also cry to.

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New Half Mile Beach Group: “Twilight”
ByPatrick St. Michel April 7, 2015April 7, 2015

Zushi’s Half Mile Beach Group left a deep impression with the windswept “Yankee” last month, and now they are triggering fuzzy memories with “Twilight.” Like “Yankee,” the outfit get a lot of mileage out of slightly manipulated vocals, as the singing here sounds buzzy and possibly coming from behind a layer of cheesecloth. It’s breezy…

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New (But Actually Old) Madegg: Drowsy Numbness (2012-2013)
ByPatrick St. Michel December 1, 2016

Drowsy Numbness (2012-2013) by Madegg From about late 2011 to mid 2013, the Kansai region boasted Japan’s best electronic music scene…and probably the best, period, in the entire country. That might still be true…but back then, things felt really exciting, with artists such as Seiho, Avec Avec and Metome…among others…starting to catch attention. Madegg, then…

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Electronic Round-Up: And Vice Versa, Hiroyuki Tanaka And Fraqsea
ByPatrick St. Michel September 4, 2016

As usual, a lot of quality songs appeared online over the weekend…here are some of the highlights. — Osaka’s And Vice Versa has been a bit of a busy bee over the last month, releasing a handful of tracks. “Never Told Me” is the latest, and a skeletal one at that — it’s a slow-burning…

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New (well, kinda) Kindan No Tasuketsu: “Nemui (Sleepers)”
ByPatrick St. Michel October 22, 2018

How deep does Kindan No Tasuketsu’s catalog go? The ever-changing pop project just released a new compilation called Early Years 2012 – 2016, one which aims to collect some loosies from acros their uhhhh early years…yet I still feel like there are a bunch of songs from this period not represented here. They are prolific!…

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City Lights: Tameike’s Manhattan
ByPatrick St. Michel February 3, 2017

Despite the title and the lux cover art, producer Tameike’s Manhattan isn’t a totally smooth set of laid-back numbers. Though it certainly gets chill at times, such as on the downtempo “Twilight,” the bulk of the album is a jittery, always-in-motion collection of electronic songs featuring synthesizer ripples (“Marble Lemon”) and bell chimes grazing over…

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Beats…For A Good Cause: MFP, Bugseed And More Contribute To The Ramen Skate Sessions
ByPatrick St. Michel November 9, 2014

So two prominent skateboard brands based out of Osaka (The Mint and Soundboarding) have teamed up with Vancouver-based outfit Beats For Change to release a Japan-centric compilation raising funds for the Japanese non-profit organization Second Harvest. All proceeds go to the group, and the comp features a bunch of producers from all over the world….

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