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At long last, my most anticipated album of 2013 is out. Kyoto’s Eadonmm has been the Kansai beat-music scene’s resident shadow lurker, eschewing the spacey and frantic sounds favored by most of the other prominent electronic music producers rising up in the region right now, instead creating spacious drone-leaning numbers that are as unsettling as…
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Too much good music has popped up online over the last few days…better round it all up, fast. – The ever-productive i-fls has a new album out soon, but for now enjoy a song that won’t be on his latest full-length, the “Tanabata greeting track” “You Made A Constellation.” It shimmers and whirs, i-fls capturing…
New Sakanaction: “Music”
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New Sotaisei Riron: “You & Idol”
Privacy-loving outfit Sotaisei Riron released a new album last week, Town Age, which I have a feeling will be landing on our top albums of 2013 list when that time comes. More on that later…but here is the new video for Town Age highlight “You & Idol.” Watch above.
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The titles of i-fls’ albums always seem like clues to what’s going on, but strangely enough his latest throws me for a loop. It has a title within a title – he is referring to a cassette named “Awareness To The Winter,” although I have no idea what that really means. Actual relic of the…
New Cuushe Music Video: “Do You Know The Way To Sleep”
Flau’s Cuushe has a new video for her song “Do You Know The Way To Sleep” off of this year’s Girl You Know That I Am Here But The Dream, and it matches up well with the slow-motion feel of the song. The clip slows down found footage of ballerinas to emphasize the beauty and weirdness (that neck on the one dancer jutting out) of their movements. Watch above.
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