New DJ Obake: “What Is 80’s?”
The answer – cheese-tastic keyboard and synths dug out of a Miami Vice episode. So basically, it’s a great stab at Reagan-decade goof-dance. DJ Obake takes these things down just as fast as they go up, so listen now.
The answer – cheese-tastic keyboard and synths dug out of a Miami Vice episode. So basically, it’s a great stab at Reagan-decade goof-dance. DJ Obake takes these things down just as fast as they go up, so listen now.
Sometimes you just need a blast of something familiar. Dronjo Kept By 4’s “Radio Her” is indie-pop simplicity at its most stripped down — what starts out as downright sloppy quickly turns in to a nifty guitar dash that just keeps on plunging ahead. And overhead comes some head-down singing, adding extra texture to what…
At least half of this song’s title is dead on – Tokyo producer Eccy’s “Rainbow Eyes” erupts with color, a tweaked-out dance track with a Starburst Tropical candy pack’s worth of visual stimulation. Like the titular natural phenomenon, trying to describe this tune seems kinda pointless. Eccy lays everything out right in front of you…
Well this was a fun one. I talked to the fine folks of CUZ ME PAIN…including NITES/Jesse Ruins, the Faron Square dudes and AAPS…and the recently-relocated-to-Tokyo Friends for The Japan Times for an article about bedroom artists in Japan. The article comes complete with a mix that CUZ ME PAIN put together just for the…
Mega Drive takes a lot of expectations and flips them around. The compilation serves as fledgling label Local Visions’ first release, and gathers artists from Japan and abroad together to dabble primarily in styles that would be seen as niche genre by most — and with arguably the main sounds being touched on across Mega…
Again, not my art, just clip art, bless it forever. 10. Emerald Four Nothing Can Hurt Me “Nothing can hurt me.” Imagine it as a mantra, a sentence muttered to build confidence in otherwise bleak moments. It’s easy to imagine those four words running through someone’s head while listening to Emerald Four’s album of the…
What are the hot trends in Japanese music right now? You could point to a few musical similarities, or you could try to deduce something larger from big songs such as Daoko’s big breakout hit, or Hoshino Gen’s gloopy TV theme song. Yet I would say what’s happening now is nothing specific, that things are…