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.
Half Mile Beach Club have a new album out this week, but it isn’t quite a new album. Be Built, Then Lost serves as an intro to the outfit’s blurred take on beach tunes for a larger audience, and that partially involves a lot of familiar cuts — including many from last year’s lovely indie…
The danger in nostalgia is getting stuck. It’s easy to ground yourself in the best thing you heard when you were 20 and never budge…or go even further back, a move making everything happening in front of you in the now seem like junk compared to the good old days. But seeing the now…and how…
There is absolutely nothing shocking/interesting about “mismatched genre” covers of songs. If you’ve ever endured an acoustic take on a rap song, you know what I’m talking about. Still, there is something a bit jarring about Japanese cliche-rock band Electric Eel Shock covering Minnie Riperton’s “Lovin’ You.” They take the slow soulful singing of Riperton’s…
Voices come to the forefront on this split EP between NC4K mainstays Paperkraft and Stones Taro. Samples of singing and of humans just generally generating noise have popped up in their releases, but the Rally Hard EP pushes them to the front in a way that none of the other releases from the label has…
Some pairings just end up working so well that dwelling too much on the how of it all seems a little pointless. Yonkey is an electronic producer signed to Asobisystem (seems fast!), while AAAMYYY is a member of the band Tempalay (responsible for one of the better albums of 2019) and also a solo artist…
After embracing boogie-woogie grooves on their last song, Kindan No Tasuketsu have teamed up with artist Wata Megumi for another strut-worthy song. The backbone of “Romantic Hankagai” comes from a sample — or well-done-but-acknowledged replication — of Michael Wycoff’s “Looking Up To You” from 1982. From that, they play tag-team vocals to put their own…