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New House Of Tapes: “Noise Attack”
最近ツイッターで、ダンスミュージックに踊る事とセックスする事意外の目的を求めるのはおかしい、みたいな内容の投稿を見ました。でも、全てがそうというわけでは決してないです。名古屋のHouse Of Tapesも勿論違った目的を見いだしていて、彼等の新曲、”Noise Attack” はその名の通りすごく細かいディテールが詰め込まれていて、取っ付きにくさは否めないものの、それを理解するためについつい何回もリピートしてしまう、中毒性のあるトラックです。別の新曲”For Rainbow“はミニマル・ハウスのような、実験性があまり聴けない曲なのですが、”Noise Attack”のインパクトはやっぱり強烈な物があります。テレビのノイズのようなサウンドで始まり、曲を通して大部分にそのノイズがバックグラウンドに存在しています。その次に入ってくるのが良い意味で気持ちの悪いシンセで、ビートがそれに続いて入ってきます。そして、違うリズム感を持つ同系等のシンセが入ってきて、曲のムードが予想以上に不快に展開していきます。決して尖っているわけではなくどこかスムーズで、どことなくギャスパー・ノエの映画のような雰囲気を持ったこの曲は、きっと病み付きになるでしょう。視聴は以下から。
New Taquwami: “Wow” And “Ultra Sad”
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Maltine Running This: Carpainter And Yoshino Yoshikawa
Over the past week, prominent Tokyo netlabel Maltine Records has released two excellent (and free!) releases worth more than the 30-some seconds they take to download. First came the imprint’s 117th release – Carpainter’s hyper-colorful Double Rainbow EP. Maltine describe this one as sounding “future,” and they are certainly onto something – the four songs…
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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 Foodman: “Nanika”
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New Cherryboy Function: “Distopia (Inter-Tech)”
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