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Weekend Round-Up: New Tracks From Eadonmm, Hisamokuden-kow, Tofubeats And Guchon
A lot of good stuff came out over the past few days – let’s do a quick round-up of the finest new tracks from across Japan. – Kyoto’s Eadonmm just keeps on creeping on. His latest song is called “If You Melted,” and it gets more sinister from there. It is a rumbling, skeletal song…
New Eadonmm: “Gothic Anamnesis”
At long last, my most anticipated album of 2013 is out. Kyoto’s Eadonmm has been the Kansai beat-music scene’s resident shadow lurker, eschewing the spacey and frantic sounds favored by most of the other prominent electronic music producers rising up in the region right now, instead creating spacious drone-leaning numbers that are as unsettling as…
Ano(t)raks Has A New Compilation Album, B.D.V.A., Download It Now
Netlabel Ano(t)raks has gotten into a good groove of dropping a new compilation album every few months, using the format as a way to touch base with more established acts and as a chance to introduce new ones to the country. The nature of these various-artist works means they are far from perfect – and…
New Moscow Club: “And The Moon Be Still As Bright”
This year, Tokyo’s Moscow Club have been balancing precariously between electronic goodness and cheesy gloop. They haven’t abandoned the indie-pop sound that grabbed some attention last year – see the lovely “Radio Vietnam” – but their 2012 output has relied heavily on synths and keyboards, the band conjuring up a spacey, 80’s new wave vibe…
Music Alliance Pact June 2013
Time for MAP! This month, we picked Tokyo’s Ykiki Beat and the summer-ready “Garden.” Listen to it…and a bunch of more great songs…below! Click the play button icon to listen to individual songs, right-click on the song title to download an mp3, or grab a zip file of the full 34-track compilation through Ge.tt here….
New For Tracy Hyde: “Small Town, Summer Rain”
For Tracy Hyde has expanded a bit – they’ve grown in number of members, which I saw at a live show they played recently. Despite a rise in the number of folks in the band, new song “Small Town, Summer Rain” still sounds like For Tracy Hyde. It’s a peppy indie-pop song…crucially, sang in Japanese…accented…
New Elen Never Sleeps: “Slow (Neu)”
“Slow” originally appeared on Moscow Club’s C86 compilation back in the spring, but has now been touched up a bit (hence the “Neu” in the title) and sounds a lot crisper than Elen Never Sleeps’ original version. Well, it sounds as crisp as something so hazy can sound – the song title is almost an understatement, because “Slow” practically crawls, the guitars and drums sounding glacial. It’s all intentional, though, a decision meant to match up with Elen Never Sleeps repeated cries of “but you slow down/slow down/slow down,” delivered in a dejected-but-pretty voice that this project has gotten so good at utilizing. The original version was good, but this slightly fleshed-out version shows what can happen when an artist spends time perfecting their creations. Listen below.
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New Fellsius: Daily Housework
One of Trekkie Trax’s strongest attributes is the sheer variety of electronic music they’ve shared with the world. Fellsius’ Daily Housework is a nice reminder of that, finding the young producer creating a pretty reverent set of house tracks (the title being a nice wink) leaning on the heavier side of the genre, complete with…
New ELLEH: Anthems Part III
Tokyo duo ELLEH recently jumped up to a English label — Rare Cut Records — and offered up the third part in their Anthems series last Friday. It starts off with the strongest moment, the previously shared “Everything You Ever Needed,” which still wows with its dizzying climax. While that lead off teases catharsis, the…
New Miila And The Geeks Video: “Want”
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Fresh Shapes: Depthqueuing’s “Pray For The Wonder Girl”
The first release via fledgling new online imprint Shapes, “Pray For The Wonder Girl” by Shimane-based producer Depthqueuing packs a lot of tension into a synth-heavy beat track. Over the course of its nearly six-minute run time, the creator weaves piano and sliced-up vocal samples through a variety of synthesizer cascades, the overall effect being…
New Polysics: “How Are You?”
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