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Osaka’s Hideo Nakasako has let some time pass since last year’s great Time Passes album, but he’s posted a three-song EP to SoundCloud that makes all the months that came before it worth it. The highlight is the opening track “Groove Me,” which opens with sea-sick synths reminiscent of what Tokyo’s mus.hiba deals with on…
New Shortcake Collage Tape: “✈Empire≈Beach☼”
Shortcake Collage TapeのVHSに直接録音したようなサウンドがとても好みです。新曲”✈Empire≈Beach☼” は、過去の名曲”Polaroid Full Of Kisses“にファズのようなフィルターをかけて潰したような作品です。”Empire Beach”は南国風のヴァイブを持っていて、ビーチリゾートのプロモーションで使われていそう。特に印象的な瞬間は、1分40秒くらいの時にスムーズなジャズ・サックスが流れる時で、その穏やかな瞬間にいつまでも留まりたくなります。その後、アニメか映画のサンプルが呟き始め、曲の終わりとともに消えていき、最後に沖縄と囁きます。視聴は以下から。 あと違った意味で注目すべきは、一ヶ月くらい前にリリースされた”Meet Me In Your Dreams”で、これはとても笑わせてくれます。何が面白いかというと、この夏、YouTubeで動画を再生する際に頻繁に流れた、元SDN48の芹那ちゃんが出演していたコマーシャル、芹那 ザ ジレット ジェルジニーがサンプルネタになっているからです。何はともあれ、SCTが彼女の喋りを使って面白くユニークな作品を作ったのは素晴らしい事だと思います。
New Sakasa: Sakasa vs Japanese ’80s POP Music Living Dead
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….
New Puffyshoes: “Heatwave”
Long time since we heard from Tokyo’s Puffyshoes, and going forward who knows when (….if?) we will hear from them again. So let’s all devote a decent chunk of time to enjoying “Heatwave,” their latest feedback-touched quickie. The highlight here are the vocals, which might be hard to hear, but are so damn catchy it…
Not Lethargic: Head On The Sofa
I went to the recently renovated Tower Records in Shibuya the other day – looks good, even with a goofy cafe occupying the entire second floor! – and saw a bunch of new CDs that looked interested. After giving them a few preview spins, I was ready to load up on fresh music…until I looked…
Track Premier: mus.hiba Remixes spazzkid “Kokeshi Doll”
In case you didn’t know, Make Believe Melodies also has a Tumblr, where I write a bit more about J-Pop and non-Japanese music. A few weeks ago, I wrote about Desire, the new album from Los-Angeles-based artist spazzkid. Read that here. For those who aren’t going to click it – Desire has jumped up to…
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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New Sawa Angstrom: “Sweet Impact”
At multiple points during “Sweet Impact,” Sawa Angstrom appear close to losing control of the song. If this winter’s “Tape Loop” offered a soft landing into the group’s electronic sound, this number (and everything off of the wonderful Of Food EP, released this week) reveals a more jagged and near-collapse take on their sound. “Sweet…
New Kindan No Tasuketsu Featuring Ano From You’ll Melt More! : “Kiss”
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New Goth-Trad: “Cosmos”
Well, this is vaguely creepy. Considering he makes dubstep and put the word “Goth” in his name, hearing a song by Goth-Trad that’s reminiscent of taking a stroll alone down a dark alley at 3 A.M. shouldn’t be too shocking. Yet even working on this assumption, “Cosmos” sounds especially lonely. The clip available at his…
New Kamisama Club: “Mamono”
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