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New Fraqsea: “Sparrow”
September is offering up a lot of meditative, dreamy music for folks to get blanketed by. The highlight would probably be a resurgent Mazzy Star releasing a new album next week, but fans of hazy music could also turn to artists like Keep Shelly In Athens or Pure Bathing Culture (OK, it came out in…
New Tofubeats: “Everybody Get Up”
The biggest twist to this is the central vocal sample (and the title of the song) comes from “Blurred Lines.” Kobe’s Tofubeats manages to take a track that is (still!) pretty burned into the minds of contemporary music fans/people who just walk by stores prone to playing the biggest summer hits and flip it into…
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 Pops: Shiggy Jr.’s “Saturday Night To Sunday Morning”
The back half of 2013 has proven to be a fruitful time to be a fan of J-Pop willing to try out new sounds. DempaGumi.inc has made a theatrical leap forward, while outfits like Especia and Lyrical School have been gifted absolutely killer songs courtesy of gifted young producers given the keys to the idol-pop…
Sounds So Right: Hearsays Prep New Album, Preview With New Song “When I’m Wrong”
Fukuoka’s Hearsays first blipped-up on our radar courtesy of Dead Funny Record’s latest compilation album, and now that label will be releasing their new A Little Bird Told Me on March 10. To give us a tease of what to expect, imprint and band have shared a new recording of the song “When I’m Wrong,”…
Pipe Dream Compilation Volume 1 Featuring PARKGOLF, Ninja Drinks Wine, DJ YEN And More
Sapporo seems to be having a moment right now. Electronic artists from that northern city have been getting more and more exposure as of late, names like Ninja Drinks Wine and Jealousguy popping up on electronic-leaning comps regularly over the past year. Osaka’s INNIT held a special event in the city recently, and producer PARKGOLF…
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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So let’s just get this out of the way…the concept for the video accompanying “Break” is pretty goofy. Like, goofy in a “this is very sweet but there is no doubt a thousand bored camp counselors have had the same idea” kind of way – someone should rip a piece of paper that says “this…
Onsen Compilation #3 Featuring Soleil Soleil, U-Z And More
Osaka’s Onsen Records returns with Onsen Compilation #3, a relatively quick but solid collection of electronic music featuring a few familiar faces and new names. Label head U-Z takes a stab at “Hip-Hop,” a wobbly number featuring verses from Darrion Parker, while the back half of the comp leans towards instrumental hip-hop cuts, a hit…
A Space To Fill: The Future Of Sex’s Bastard
Sho Takeuchi’s X-Files project caught our attention at the start of this year not just because of the name…the Tokyo artist created unsettling music rich with tension across a series of EPs and singles uploaded to SoundCloud. For whatever reason (maybe certain reboots scared him a bit), Takeuchi has renamed his venture once more, to…
Trekkie Trax Teams Up With Good Enuff For Compilation Featuring Foodman, KiWi And More
Tokyo label Trekkie Trax has teamed up with Mad Decent sub-label Good Enuff for a compilation celebrating the Japanese netlabel. This isn’t the first time these two entities have criss-crossed, and many of the artists here have also been featured on Good Enuff. The best moments come from the artists who seem most out of…
New Einsteins: “Hypnotism”
(That art is so cute!) Einsteins have a new song posted online called “Hypnotism,” and it is…well, not quite worthy of being dubbed “hypnotic” but more comforting. It’s a lovely mush of synthesizers and singing, an easygoing (and dreamy) way to start the week. Listen above.
80Kidz Spoil World With Another EP, I Apologize For That Pun Immediately
Electro duo 80Kidz have another EP due out this year. Spoiled Boy drops June 23, and features the titular track, the group’s collaboration with CSS leader Lovefoxx. The EP also includes two new tracks and three remixes, including one by The Shoes. Full tracklisting below. 01. Spoiled Boy feat. Lovefoxx 02. BLOW 03. Northcoast 04….
