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New Hotel Mexico: “boy”
boy from HOTEL MEXICO on Vimeo. Hotel Mexico’s new album Her Decorated Post Love dropped yesterday, and definitely worth your time. The Kyoto group also released a video for that album’s lead-off track, “boy,” yesterday, which you can watch above. This song bares a slight resemblance to Hotel Mexico’s older “Starling, Tiger, Fox,” what with…
Lidly Teams Up With Canooooopy For Geomysteric Psyborg EP
Ahhhhhh, hip-hop beats that would actually be expert-level setting to rap over. Tokyo producers Lidly and Canooooopy aren’t strangers to the type of heady music that would leave even Lil’ B scratching his head about what to do with it. The two have teamed up for a new EP of heady stuff titled Geomysteric Psyborg,…
Music Alliance Pact May 2013
The May edition of MAP is here, and Make Believe Melodies decided to highlight one of the more intriguing artists operating out of Tokyo to surface in 2013. Yep, Shibuya’s Metoronori, who has released two great albums of heady, bedroom-assembled pop music. Also, welcome Drowned In Sound to the MAP team! Click the play button…
Music Alliance Pact September 2013
This month for the Music Alliance Pact, Make Believe Melodies is putting the spotlight on Kobe-based electronic outfit Cosmosman and their “Unique Fun Fiction.” Listen to it…and a bunch of other great songs from around the globe…below. Click the play button icon to listen to individual songs, right-click on the song title to download an…
New De De Mouse: “Floats And Falls”
“Restraint”(制御)という単語をDe De Mouseと結びつける事などないと思っていました。彼の音楽は通常、ボーカルを切り刻み、その切れ端をスピード感のあるビートの上に乗せるようなスタイル。任天堂DSの音楽ゲームだったら最大級の難易度ですね。ドラムンベースの影響が薄い曲に限っての話ですが。新作Sky Was Darkからの曲、”Floats And Falls”は何と9分もあるのですが、今回はただ速いだけではありません。逆にスローなこの曲では、シンセが上手く曲を展開させて行きます。ボーカルのみにスピード感があります…というよりは、跳ねるようなスタイルがそう聴こえさせるのかもしれませんが。 “Floats And Falls”は5分が経過したその時点で既に完成された曲なのですが、それだけで終わらないのが今回の注目点。曲は不意に展開し、ビートが消えてボーカルとシンセのみのパートになります。その後も次々に新しい音色が加えられ、曲を終わりへと導きます。長くも飽きのこない、優れた工夫が施された作品だと感じます。De De Mouseの曲の中でもダントツで平和な、広々とした空気感を放っていて、彼の新しいスタイルを象徴した、新しい始まりを感じさせる曲になっています。ビデオは以下に。
New Seiho: “Double Bed”
Seiho just wrapped up a tour of Japan with LuckyMe artist Obey City, and in support of that tour/because why not take the opportunity to do so the pair released a four-track album called Shochu Sounds. You should get the whole thing over here, but for now let’s focus specifically on the Osaka producer’s “Double…
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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Moon Age Spa Trip: Keita Onishi’s “Dream”
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New Etsuko Yakushimaru: “Lonely Planet (Post Office)”
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DFA spin-off label Death From Abroad recently released Tokyo psych-rock outfit Yura Yura Teikoku’s 2007 albums Hollow Me and Beautiful in America. The trio’s rock contains an edge of danciness to it, which explains why they’d end up on a DFA-related label. Pitchfork is currently streaming Yura Yura Teikoku’s “Dekina,” check it out. First you…
