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New And Vice Versa: “Underexposure”
The artists revolving around the INNIT community have certainly kept busy at the start of 2014 – Seiho is all over the place, Madegg is opening for The Field next weekend, Magical Mistakes is remixing other Osaka artists with great results and Avec Avec pops up on the Maltine Girls’ Wave album. Now comes a…
Sailing The Seapunk: Umio’s “ゆのっちと$∑ÅφÜ燔 (“Yunoochi To Seapunk”)
Seapunkは本当に良い音楽を追求したジャンルなのか、一部のアーティストの集まりが楽しむ為のジャンルなのか。ツイッターのハッシュタグにおいてもそんなに目立っていなかったSeapunkですが、ジャンルの持つ個性的なサウンドに魅了されたアーティストも勿論います。ここ日本で活動しているUmioもそんなイルカ好きの一人で、新曲のタイトルも”Yunoochi to Seapunk”といいます。水の音など使われているものの、そこまでSeapunkというわけでは無いような気はするのですが、興味深い曲なのは確かです。アニメと思われるサンプルから始まり、若干こもりがちでゲームチックなシンセが入ってきます。曲が進行するにつれてドラムンベースから調のパーカッションや、ニューエイジ風の展開も。アヒルのオモチャを握りつぶして音を出したようなこの曲は、何と呼べば相応しいのかも難しいところですが、新しい発見のある貴重な5分間となる事でしょう。試聴は以下から。
Jazz Aged: Supple’s Minato Tape
I do not profess to being a guy who knows much about Japanese hip-hop. I have about as basic an understanding of the scene one can get, but that’s it – I don’t know the intricacies or the regional differences or even, like, the fashions (I think Yankees’ caps are popular?). What I do know,…
New May.e: “Bowling”
It hasn’t even been a week since I went into a tizzy writing about May.e’s album Mattiola, one of the year’s most stunning releases and one rich in FEELINGS. Turns out May.e is a restless soul, and also capable of churning out high-quality music at will – you can hear a new song of bare-bones…
Listen To Moscow Club’s Station M.C.C.B. Now
It’s fun to theorize about how Moscow Club managed to raise more than $5000 on the website Indiegogo in order to press their first vinyl LP ever (full disclosure: I donated to the campaign, and also appeared in the promotional video for this project). It’s also pretty cool wondering what this all means, mannnnn, how…
Breaking The Silence: Ventla’s With No Compass
At long last – Ventla. I’ve never written about the Tokyo producer before around these parts for two reasons: 1. The first release he MediaFired into the world that I actually heard didn’t impress me all that much, so I passed. I stuck with Ventla, though, and dug into his back catalog and realized that…
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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Figured Me Out: LISTEN UP’s “小さな汽車と花」”春の声”
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2E3lvgZ7WA”] Heads up – this blog might be converted into a site devoted to avant Hungarian jazz sometime in the coming week just to throw you all off my trail. Background – Neaux recently tweeted about the band LISTEN UP’s new single, saying it sounds like the sort of indie J-Pop I’d be into. And…he’s…
New M/D/G (Madegg): “?????”
Based on a recent posting on Flau’s site, it is tough to tell whether Kyoto’s Madegg recent rechristening as MDG…or, is it M/D/G?…is a permanent thing or just a temporary shift. What is certain — he has a new EP (also titled M/D/G) out in March, and he’s shared the first song off of it,…
New Haruno: Sigh.
Haruno makes music in many different molds. They’ve used Vocaloid to create dreamy synth-pop, while also shifted closer to Nujabes via albums of laid-back hip-hop-inspired beats. I’m more drawn to the prior than the latter, as the beat-oriented stuff feels a bit incomplete and a little too sleepy. Sigh. still gravitates towards that territory, but…
New Crystal Featuring Matias Aguayo: “Kimi Wa Monster”
The current increase in interest around older Japanese music — especially from the individual members of Yellow Magic Orchestra — has been a neat development, and makes the music electronic outfit Crystal has been making this decade look all the more ahead of the curve (errrr, by looking back). Crystal Station 64 found the group…
Whispery: Buddy, Girl & Mechanic
Buddy, Girl & Mechanic aren’t intimate in the sense that you feel like you are sitting in the same room with them. They are intimate in a way that brings to mind someone sneaking up behind you and whispering words into your ears, startling but also a bit alluring albeit still sorta uncomfortable. BG&M embraces…
Spot On For Something Everyone Does: The Cigavettes “Ready To Leave”
Look, I don’t really want to drag the fashion choices of The Cigavettes’ guitarist into a discussion about the group’s single “Ready To Leave” but – when you wear one of those name shirts (ya know, like this) that clearly honors The Beatles in the attached music video, I’m going to go in and make…