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.
Few producers in Japan today are as versatile as Kai Takahashi. Dude boasts one of the most all-over-the-place catalogs of anyone around – he remixes Phoenix, he creates breezy ’80s-inspired dance songs and he’s the lead singer for the beach-loving, heart-broken indie-pop outfit Slow Beach. And now he’s flexing his love of the warmer months…
Glitz can sound really interesting when parts of the charm feel just off. That’s something rarely — sometimes, but rarely — found in the current crop of smoothed-out rock performing well in Japan’s mainstream. The project Abenie shows how a little bedroom-pop charm can go a long way. “Metropolis” moves at a dazzled-by-the-lights pace, and…
Sync Sweep would be worth a mention for his generosity alone. Dude has gone and posted all 14 songs from his forthcoming album Silent Message for the masses on MySpace to enjoy. Added bonus – the album sounds good! I realize describing everything as “perfect for the season” can quickly turn annoying (cut me some…
NITES either really really likes “It’s Twinkle” or he thinks it could use some reworking…spoiler alert, I’m pretty sure it’s option one. Dude went and made two remixes of Hotel Mexico’s breakthrough track and posted them at his MySpace. Version one morphs the song into a wide-eyed piece of bedroom pop, NITES strong suite. Version…
For a dude who doesn’t want the Red Bull and vodka crowd to be alive, DJ Obake knows how to make an anthem for them. “Party People Must Die” – some sort of dense parody of club rat culture, or just an absolute crunchy dancefloor jam that morphs into something triumphant in its second half…
Suiyoubi No Campanella’s ascent in 2016 shows no signs of slowing down, an outfit once hovering around the Shinjuku Loft scene now popping up on SMAP X SMAP (uhh, R.I.P?) and scoring tie-up campaigns with Toyota. The latter — repping for the Prius — has generated her latest song, “Matsuo Basho,” and like many acts…