New Boyish: “Farewell Kisses”
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。
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。
This one is only around for a little while longer, so lets not dilly dally – CUZ ME PAIN project White Wear (formerly :visited and part of Faron Square) has followed up his A Black From White Space EP with another trio of songs, this one titled Night In Blue. You can download the EP…
Memories are imperfect things. That’s something home-recording artist i-fls understands so well, especially on his latest collection Diary Of Spectre. We like to treat nostalgia as something warm, something that gets stirred up in us and reminds us of simpler times. Yet that’s just the stuff of movies – nostalgia, once treated as a disease,…
“In The Sun” falls somewhere between the pleasant shoe-staring of “I Don’t Know” and the holy fire that was “Someday.” Berserker Children Club here embrace loud guitars and vocals that blur into the noise around it on “In The Sun,” resulting in a strong shoegaze song with a pop center. It is a marked improvement…
神戸のtofubeatsはトラックメイカーとして数々のリミックスやオリジナル作品を手がけてきました。今年2012年は今までとは少し違い、プロデューサーとして、数々の面白い挑戦をしています。ラッパーのオノマトペ大臣と共同で数々の強力なトラックを作り出したり、J-Popのシーンにも関わったりしていました。Yukiの曲のリミックスや、lyrical school(改名前はtengal6)への楽曲提供などがハイライトでしょう。でも、そのような活動をする中で、ついに傑作”Summer Dreams”をリリースしました。 今回リリースされた9曲は、一直線なビートとラップが印象的な、プロデューサー中心のトラックに、カット&ペーストスタイルでボーカルのサンプルが使われています。今までの曲のように、ゆるい感じの物が多く、ホーンなどが使われている”poolside”のような、レイド・バックな曲が印象的です。In My Room” と”Synthesizer”も同じような雰囲気で、みんなで歌えるような曲なのに、決してそれだけでは終わらせないのが面白いところです。”In My Room”を例にあげるならば、ボーカルに一ひねり加えられていて、声が陰に隠れ、ダークな印象を生み出しています。”Synthesizer”ではボコーダーが使われ、ゆったりとした印象を強めています。 このようにtofubeatsはボーカルに多くの工夫を加えています。主に、ボーカルのサンプルを速めるという手法が使われています。”Killing Me Soft Cream” “Sweat N Dry” (AxeのCM曲) と “Work Shit”にもそのような手法が使われているのですが、Taquwamiの新しいEP、”Blurrywonder”と共通点があるように感じます。でも、tofubeatのほうがシンプルかつミニマルで、繰り返しが多いような印象です。(Work Shitを除く)。この3曲が新しいアルバムのなかでも特に傑作と言えるでしょう。購入はこちらから、視聴は以下から。 summer dreams by tofubeats
Make Believe Melodies recently interviewed Canopies And Drapes’ mastermind Chick, who also used to be in the duo Nu Clear Classmate. She released a new cassette, Stray Sheep’s Delight, late last year, and one of her songs from that tape appeared on the recent Ano(t)raks) compilation album Upwards And Onwards. We talked to her about…
Everyone seems to be in a summer mood as of late…yesterday, POP-OFFICE were brooding about the end of summer, and now Yucca are getting all melancholy thinking about the season. “Summer Emotion” is a sparse tune that sorta just hangs in the air – I’m surprised this lasts only three minutes and 45 seconds. The…
“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.
One of the early American pop highlights of 2015 has been Chris Brown and Tyga’s “Ayo,” a joyous number seemingly taking cues from DJ Mustard to create a twinkling song with a few unsettling touches (those echoing vocal samples). It’s good! Kyoto’s Cool Japan has basically remixed “Ayo” for his “I Need U,” which mainly…
The semi-mysterious (but probably just because of a general lack of information) William Wilson project has a new, weekend-worthy track out in the online wilds. Called “Hito Tsubu Nomi Hose,” it is an easygoing number prodded on by a gentle beat and some porch-side guitar playing…though a slight electronic presence whirs behind it all, adding…
Mikeneko Homeless, once focused only on soba and getting money, have recently shifted to letting other singers shine over their bouncy music. Was the case with their last Maltine Records release, plus a rework of “Soba Ga Tabetai,” and now they’ve teamed up with idol Nagi Nemoto for “Purity,” a skeletal number that puts the…
It’s tough to ignore a band named MASS OF THE FERMENTING DREGS, but I’ve somehow found a way to do so during my tenure in Japan. No excuses now: the newly three-piece have a video for their new single “ひきずるビート,” and the song is an absolute bulldozer. That extra member paid off, because this track…
Dude doesn’t just need talkboxes and vocoders to shine, it turns out. Tokyo producer PellyColo – whose Temptaion EP from earlier this year does ’80s throwbacks right, and whose remix on Especia’s Gusto is one of the best songs of the year – has a new song called “Island” that is all gliding synthesizers and…
At its best, “future bass” functions as this overwhelming force of sound that feels like a big burst of joy. The latest from Omoide Label — currently on a heck of a hot streak for the netlabel — comes from producer nikoi0227, who nails that release on the aptly titled Feel My Emotions. Part of…