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Hey, summer going a little too well for you? Having too much fun in the warm weather? Welp, Kansai indie-pop outfit It Happens have the perfect bummer jam to make you wistful. “Track And Field” is an extremely lonely song, just some guitar strumming and downtrodden singing that’s near impossible to understand due to how…
Slow Wonder: Ikebana’s “Rose,” “Kiss” And “Alone”
It takes nearly two minutes for Japanese duo Ikebana’s “Rose” to really reach…somewhere. Before that, for all those seconds, the pair create a slowly unfolding iciness that sounds like it might never thaw out. Only when voices…unintelligible, virtually humming…enter into the scene do things start to warm. And even then, it still takes time. Eventually,…
Music Alliance Pact January 2014
The first Music Alliance Pact of 2014 has arrived! To kick off the new year, over 30 blogs from around the world have selected a track to share with the rest of the globe. For Japan, Make Believe Melodies is highlighting the fidgety “Bishop’s Rising Sun” courtesy of Osaka’s Metome. Listen to it…and a lot…
Transitory Splendor: Submerse’s “Algorithms And Ghosts”
It is a soundtrack made for commuting between different places in large urban spaces, filled by swarms of people shoaling and funneling across intersections, subway stations and central hubs like corpuscles pulsating in the cities veins, conducted by invisible algorithms in the symbiotic superorganism that is a metropole. – Submerse, about his new EP Algorithms…
Music Alliance Pact December 2012
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Noah Teams Up With Houston Rapper Siddiq For TWO EP
Nagoya’s Noah already has teamed up with one American artist (Sela) for her first release of the year, and now for number two (which…is named TWO) she’s hooked up with Houston rapper/vaporwave producer Siddiq. Whereas her first 2013 release was a split, this finds the two musicians working together, Noah presumably providing the beats while…
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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Programming Alert: I’m At The Fuji Rock Festival This Weekend
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New AOTQ: Alone
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New FPM: “Goddess (Track For Kuriki)
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