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Cokiyu’s recently released Haku EP is a pretty collection of songs, highlighted by a collaboration with Los-Angeles-based-artist Baths. It is a collection very much worth your time. That said…the Tokyo mood-maker’s once-unreleased-but-now-released song “Vapor Doll” is the best track to emerge from the Haku period so far. It’s a collaboration with Tokyo-based sound artist 34423,…
New Rapunzel8083: “Miró Jazz”
Rapunzel8083は良い意味で今の日本のトレンド、シーンを無視した独自の音世界を追求していると思います。新曲Miró Jazzでは彼の以前の作品からのサンプルを集めたものになっています。中には昨今のYouTubeヒットの”Charlie Bit My Finger – Again!”も含まれており、Rapunzel8083の遊び心がみれます。 又彼の作品の多くには著名な画家へのオマージュともとれる言葉遊びが含まれており、以前の作品にはサルバドール ダリを思わせるDalí Jazzそして今回の作品にはミロの名前が冠されており彼のアートに対する思いが作品になっているのかもしれません。色々な側面から見える彼のオリジナリティーは素晴らしい物がありこの独自の世界を是非試聴してみてください。リンクは以下から.
Something Isn’t Right: Oven Toast Jam’s “Dreamy Acidiary”
This didn’t need to be fucked around with. Producer Oven Toast Jam could have played this song straight, just crafted a beat orbiting around that acid-smeared throb and those ghostly vocals in the back, also letting those occasional piano notes float to the top. It would have been a more than serviceable beat. Thankfully, Oven…
It’s All A Blur: Gigandect’s “ᔤᙈᙜᙜᙓᖇ” (“Summer”)
Try listening to the latest Maltine Records release while dozing off. Doesn’t matter if it’s during a lull in the work day, or right before bed, or even after taking a handful of cold pills and a cup of Nyquil (ahem). Something interesting happens when you just let this play, taking your eyes off the…
New Alloapm: “Nightrunner (Summer Version)”
Pure neon sounds here. Tokyo’s Alloapm has labeled this a “summer version,” but really this is a song designed for the night, preferably while cruising through the city, potentially while holding onto some ~feels~. It is, sonically, a relatively simple number – a flurry of synths, a beat, bass and some Vocder-ized singing propelling the…
New Kindan No Tasuketsu: Illuminations, Satellite Heart/ Chill Sounds Series Volume 1
I recently had a chat with someone about music in Japan. One takeaway – and an observation I’ve heard many times before in bars up to Retromania – is that some fans in Japan get super into a niche sound, and become experts of it. And that’s true! And can lead to great music! But…
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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Music Alliance Pact February 2016
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Satellite Young Covers “Take On Me”
It’s year-end season, and I think one of the major trends that is going to get glossed over in lists and thinkpieces is how nostalgic everything felt this year. It’s unavoidable in Japan, where the biggest artist of the year was Namie Amuro and the biggest song resurrected Eurobeat. But it’s also playing out elsewhere…
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 For Tracy Hyde: Juniper And Lamplight EP
For Tracy Hyde first caught our attention when they appeared on an EP with fellow indie-pop outfit BOYISH, this new project complete with upbeat guitar-pop songs and a name the Sarah Records people probably regret not scooping up back in the 80s. The earliest material from For Tracy Hyde seemed mostly in tune with the…
