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Out Of Step: FOODMAN’s Iroiro
As of late, websites Tiny Mix Tapes and the Fader have been making a big deal about Japanese juke and footwork music. Both have profiled Japanese artists operating withing that scene, Tiny Mix Tapes going as far as to review a Paisley Parks’ album. One name that comes up sometimes is FOODMAN,who has been one…
New Sapphire Slows: “Dry Fruits”
Sapphire Slows’ has a new album out in November called Allegoria, and here’s the first track to come out from that album, “Dry Fruits.” It’s a slinky number, a reminder that she comes from a scene every bit as interested in dance music as they are more shadowy sounds. Just listen to that particularly wet…
New Kindan No Tasuketsu: “Ring A Bell”
First off, not safe for work! Kindan No Tasuketsu recently released a new album, and tracks off of it have been trickling online over the last few weeks. Here’s the latest, being released as a special Christmas special (B-side….”Santa Claus Is Coming Back”), though it also appears on her new full-length as well. “Ring A…
Get Elen Never Sleeps’ New EP Silver Now
Tokyo’s Elen Never Sleep has been previewing tracks from his forthcoming Silver EP for a while now, and today the seven-song release can be yours, either for free download or as a limited-edition cassette. Besides getting to hear good cuts like “Silver” and (especially) “Shine On Me,” the EP also comes with a Taquwami remix….
New Towa Tei Featuring Shiina Ringo: “Apple”
The career arc of Shiina Ringo isn’t like your typical artist’s. Ringo started her career as a solo musician, crafting some of the early 2000’s most forward thinking and best albums (of anywhere in the world). Yet she then decided she wanted to be part of a band and formed Tokyo Jihen who, despite having…
New Figure: “Don’t Hate You”
Figure might not hate you, but he definitely doesn’t mind making you feel claustrophobic. “Don’t Hate You” follows up his excellent Come Down album from last year, and it sticks to the same sonic principals that made that six-track set so good – Figure records his music in a way that makes the guitar come…
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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Time for a catch-up post to kick off the week, here are some good songs from the last few days worth your time! – Itadaqi is a new electro-pop project in Tokyo, and I am pretty sure that Chick of Canopies And Drapes handles the lead vocals on their first song “Taikutsu No Heya.” Well,…
New Especia: “Aviator”/”Boogie Aroma”
Before I write anything else, I should mention…I really liked Especia’s Primera mini-album from earlier this year. As someone who still listens to Gusto a lot and feels the same joy from it as I did in December, Primera pretty much delivered on everything the group has done well — glistening City Pop revival stuffed…
New Cuushe: “Spread”
It’s only a snippet of a new song, but any new Cuushe is something to celebrate. In conjunction with the NHK program Techne and director Yoko Kuno (who has worked with Cuushe before), “Spread” soundtracks a brief clip of rotoscoped babies, albeit ones transforming into various things (we approve!). The song itself is a twinkling…
Not A Calm: Kiki Vivi Lily’s “Copenhagen”
The general chillness of Japanese rock over the last two years appears to have gotten so laid back as to drift off into stranger places. The past month saw Tempalay put out their zonked-out opus With Love From The 21st Century and Half Mile Beach Club’s first stab at a bigger audience with their alien…
Shiny Minimalism: Toki Asako “Ranhansha Girl”
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSvXkXxccIg&hl=en_US&fs=1&] I’m glad Toki Asako decided to include a lot of mirrors in the video for her latest single “Ranhansha Girl,” because it makes describing the track as “glassy” a lot easier. The song open with a stammering series of electronics before working some shiny bell chimes into the song. “Ranhansha Girl’s” real triumph though…
New Anisakis: “Rosas”
She Talks Silence recently started up a “personal record label” charmingly named Fuck Work Recordings. The label’s first release is a split CD featuring a new song from STS and a track from punky outfit Anisakis. The She Talks Silence track isn’t available online…which is kinda unfair considering this split CD is limited to only…
