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.
The partnership between Tokyo’s LLLL and Singapore-born, London-based (last time I checked) artist Yeule has been quite fruitful over the past year. The latter has appeared quite a bit on the prior’s Chains series, adding a sweetness to the often jittery and — sometimes — dark music. It’s a bit of a simplification, but Yeule…
Plenty of bands are consistent, but Spangle Call Lilli Line manage something far more rare — being deceivingly consistent. Over their career, they’ve experimented a lot and practically changed their sonic palette every album, yet it doesn’t feel like they are constantly tinkering because they also have a strong voice that comes through in whatever they…
Rapunzel8083 is the sort of project that really fucks up all of your preconceptions about genres and scenes and trends, because what Rapunzel8083 exists outside of anything going on in Japan at the moment. The closest contingent I’d even dare drop Rapunzel8083 into would be INNIT, since both focus on bending the rules of electronic…
Not to dwell on 2014 too much…the new calendar is out, we are all trying to forget the past 12 months happened…but Osaka producer Soleil Soleil’s Sense collection came pretty close to bum rushing our personal top-20 album list, probably existing at like, 23 or 24 for those who love specific rankings. He’s off to…
Koshi Inaba sings lead vocals in popular Japanese rock band B’z. Slash once played lead guitar in Guns ‘N’ Roses and has since become one of the most inessential people in music today. Slash has a new album coming out soon (the perfect stocking stuffer for your friend who lined up outside of Best Buy…
Producer Dubb Parade has a new four-song EP out called Reconquista, out via Anti Gravity Dance. It finds him in a mode he’s been operating in for the past year, making more minimal dance tunes featuring warped vocals and a cosmic vibe, featuring shifty beats that give otherwise vaporous songs a bounce (highlighted by finale…