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.
Tokyo five-piece Kikagaku Moyo has been kicking about for about three years around the capital, playing the sort of guitar-centric psych rock that thrills rock fans who see Japan as “Boredomes and some other nutty stuff.” But despite this potential pitfall — a lot of these avant-garde bands aren’t actually doing anything interesting! — Kikagaku…
Bonus songs tacked on to a special edition CD or vinyl issue of an existing album might not normally grab our attention, but when it comes to In The Blue Shirt, we are eager to listen to what micro-level dance tinkering dude gets up to at any time. “Stevenson Screen” comes from the record version…
Electronic music isn’t just having a big 2010, it’s undergoing a massive Sea Change on multiple fronts. I’ll save you the essay I could write about Flying Lotus and how Cosmogramma acts like some blippy wormhole into the most amazing dimension ever and just leave it at he probably made my favorite album of 2010,…
Here’s the newest song from Tokyo’s Taquwami…who also records as Occult You. It might be a pain to write, but “τiмe Δf+er τiмe” mixes dreamy vocal samples against Aarabmuzik-like beats. Whereas the Occult You project seems a bit more outward focused, this Taquwami track and others like it wrap around you like a childhood Forever…
We tend to focus on the whole “city pop revival” thing a lot around these (and, well, most English media outlets) here parts, but in reality there are a bunch of different areas in the current band boom. Beyond the laid-back outfits, you have the wonky mainstream embrace of Gesu No Kiwami Otome, along with…
At its core, Tomisaki’s City 166 is a great house album, delivering three high-energy tracks full of warm piano lines and vocal samples. It’s a good time, fun release! But the reason to put it under the spotlight a bit more is because of the moments when the songs on City 166 get blurry. See…