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New Ropes: “Panorama”
It’s bare – just a voice and some guitar. But, like may.e throughout this year, the duo Ropes manage to draw out a lot of power from this minimalist set-up. Whereas may.e turns simplicity into sonic ecstasy, Ropes deal in a sort of loving chilliness that is like a whisper to the ear. The main…
New Diane Halls: “A Pain That Is Felt”
Diane Halls don’t release too much, but when they pop back up on the radar, it’s always with something pretty solid. “A Pain That Is Felt” offers a pretty good hint of its mood from the title alone – its a guitar-centric drifter featuring very, very little vocals (the ones that do show up mumble…
Seiho Provides Production For Rapper Klooz’s New Song “Find You”
This isn’t the first time Osaka’s spacey Seiho has produced a track for a hip-hop artist…he also worked with insufferable rap unit LUVRAW & BTB on a track that is best forgotten to time. The end result is a lot better when he teams up with rapper Klooz for “Find You.” Seiho is way less…
New Ventla: Somethingness
Oh Ventla, busy busy Ventla. He just released his latest album, Somethingness, and it’s a good reminder of what makes Ventla so intriguing. Well, beyond his story – this bedroom-based music maker wants to release 100 digital albums (he’s currently on 24). Yet what makes him such a compelling artist to follow is how he…
Continental Drift: Earthquake Island + Kavemura’s “Black Eyes”
Here’s a nice little inter-continent collaboration – Tokyo’s Earthquake Island teamed up with Hong Kong’s Kavemura’s for this woozy little number titled “Black Eyes.” It’s a pretty vapory song – a minimal but effective beat, a whirlpool of synths and some super-distorted vocals. There is also what sounds like a cash register at one point,…
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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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…
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“Restraint” isn’t a word I’d normally associate with producer De De Mouse. His music usually dices vocal snippets into half-second squeaks, and then he rearranges them into speedy patterns that at times sound like something you find on the hardest difficulty of a Nintendo DS rhythm game…and those are the tracks lacking drum ‘n’ bass…
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New Nite Body: “Void Hawaii”
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