Slowは元々MOSCOW CLUBのC８６コンピレーションに収録されていた楽曲でしたが＜＞今回の再編集を経て（なのでタイトルに新しいを表すNUEとついています）オリジナルよりもクリアーになっています。氷山を彷彿とさせる様な壮大な冷たい空気感のギターとドラムスは彼の歌う歌詞”but you slow down/slow down/slow down,” と重なってゆっくりと流れていきます。オリジナルバージョンも良曲でしたがこのバージョンによってさらに洗練されたと言えると思います。
Batman Winks (formally Atlanta Girl) has been all about confrontation on the small amount of music he’s released over the past couple of years. Obviously taking cues from LA pop weirdo Ariel Pink (and not shy about declaring his love for the dude), his songs have often deliberately been hard to listen to or, at…
Dude releases tons of new material all the time but…I don’t remember Osaka’s Soleil Soleil sounding this crisp before. “Sun” sounds clearer than most of songs this producer has made before, the synths shimmering and the percussion clanking clearly, to the point that this actually sounds a lot like neighbor-to-the-north Madegg. It’s a bit more…
Diane Halls is a new project out of Aichi that has released one really nice song, the dreamy “Stolen Kisses.” I wrote about it for New-York-based blog International Tapes, and you can read it over here. Highly recommend you get the song here.
It sometimes feels stupid to describe a song as being “perfect for Summer” (or any specific time), like it’s a cop out in regards to poking deeper into a piece of music. Even when the artist advertises it as so! Yet here I am, confronted with Osamu Ansai’s “Woman,” a Maltine-backed track, that really begs…
Here is White Wear at his most stripped down to date, and quite possibly the most minimalist any track to emerge from the shadows of CUZ ME PAIN has ever been. “White Six Strings” is White Wear armed with only a guitar…and save for a few edits here and there (a hiccup at the start,…
Nara producer Sakasa decided to challenge themselves a bit with their newest album. Here are the rules Sakasa imposed while recording this collection: 1. Sample only Japanese ’80s POP music. 2. Use only Ableton Live 8 standard. 3. Don’t use any plugins and hardwares (samplers,synthesizers,drummachines and effectors). 4. This is NOT a remix !! 5….
“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.
Usually, I try to avoid writing about K-Pop artists crossing over to Japan on this blog so much anymore, moving that stuff over to the Tumblr. Yet Korea’s 2NE1 hold a special place in this site’s digital heart, so I am not all that hesitant to post a brief teaser of their new Japanese single…
Producer Seiho has gotten a lot of attention for his more frantic productions, but he’s long been capable of more minimalist sounds too, such as his work with various rappers. His latest, “Pry,” finds him working with American artists Ehiorobo on a horn-accented little strutter full of water sounds (a nice reminder that Seiho is…
Calling Wooman a CUZ ME PAIN supergroup would be slightly misleading, as technically that already existed — as the member info page for this new Tokyo project makes clear, Wooman is basically a reunited Faron Square with the addition of Kouta Wakatsuki of Mad Gets. But, considering Faron Square has been finished for quite some…
砂 by Moscow Room Late last year, Moscow Room caught our attention with the claustrophobic creep of “Swim,” a number channeling the unsettling to create something absorbing and dark. Suna plops that right in the middle, and reveals “Swim” to be Moscow Room’s big calling card, a tension-filled number showing everything they have to offer….
Japan’s electronic music scene has mutated into all sorts of fascinating shapes – the spastic lockstep of Seiho, the gooey synth washes courtesy of Avec Avec, the hair-raising lurch of Eadonmm just to name a few – yet most of it originated from the same place. Many of these artists came from (or were inspired…
Not to puff it up too much, but Mom has…kind of gotten big? OK, more like “rising steadily” but since releasing an album late last year the genre hop-scotcher has gotten a decent amount of attention, and also appeared in an ad for Apple. This is all lining up for Mom’s next album, May’s Detox,…