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Seiho、MFPやAnd Vice Versa等を2012年にリリースし注目を集めている大阪のレーベル、Day Tripper Recordsから新しいフル・レングスアルバムがリリースされました。東京のLeggysaladというアーティストのVerde Planedetoというアルバムで、現在その中から2曲、”Reunion”と”Sleeping Beauty”が、Soundcloudから視聴可能です。”Reunion”では飛び跳ねるピアノにアコギのパーカッシブなストローク、そして後半にはチャイムが使われていて、Day Tripperからリリースされた今までの作品よりもかなり穏やかなので驚きです。”Sleeping Beauty”はチョップされた女性ボーカルが随所で聴けるものの、こちらもかなり物静かな印象です。しかし、2曲ともドラムが曲全体に力強さを与えていて、レーベルのカラーもひそかに持っています。視聴は以下から。
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 LLLL Video: “Because Of My Eyes”
東京のデュオ、LLLLの新しいビデオ”Because Of My Eyes”は、まるで週末に夜遊びしているかのような光景。眩しいライトやビデオエフェクトは酔っぱらっているような気持ちにさせてくれます。全て白黒で撮影されていているこの作品では、街を散歩したりクラブで踊ったり、気づけば女性がこちらを眺めていたり。J-Popからの影響が強いものの、LLLLらしい少しダークな雰囲気で日本のパーティーライフを体験できます。ビデオは上から。
New Outdoorminer: “Badmood”
Osaka’s Outdoorminer (also known as Cloudy Busey) has proven over the last few years he’s great at creating unsettling, late-night moods. Between his two solo projects, he’s excelled at making music for downtrodden walks home, whether they be complete with vocals or, as is the case with the Outdoorminer alias, just music. “Badmood” follows up…
Music Alliance Pact February 2014
Time for the Music Alliance Pact! This month’s MAP features Hideo Nakasako’s fantastic “Groove Me.” Listen to it…and a lot more great music…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 26-track compilation through Ge.tt here….
New She Talks Silence: “Walk Away”
先週東京のデュオ、She talks Silenceが新曲”Walk Away”をSoundCloudで発表しました。Minami Yamaguchiは短いイントロの中で”walk away now”の持つ意味を明確にし、そこから速いテンポで短い3分間程度ギターをかき鳴らしていきます。”I know you’ll hate me”という印象的なフレーズが象徴するように、後ろを振り向かずに前へ前へと進みたい気持ちと共に疾走する美しい曲です。試聴は以下から。
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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Rough But Ready: Tamao Ninomiya’s “Migaku Hoo Rhythm Of Eyes”
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New Quarta330 Pixelated
Japanese producer Quarta330 released his new EP Pixelated, his first through London’s Hyperdub in quite some time. I have a feature about him in The Japan Times today, which you can read here. I cover most of my thoughts on Pixelated there…so yeah, definitely click that, this is kind of a “read this other piece…
Does A Remix Count When You Don’t Know The Original Track?: Scottish Fold
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New Tomatoism: Cute Moments 2017 – 2018
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