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Western Jaunt: Kalan Ya Heidi’s “Marbles Of Maple”
Fukuoka songwriting duo Kalan Ya Heidi appear to have only one song available for listening online…yet they’ve clearly won over the folks at Dead Funny Records, who will be releasing the group’s first EP this winter. “Marbles Of Maple,” though, is a pretty stunning debut from the pair. It opens like it could end up…
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Do you feel that, hanging in the air? As chilly autumn winds start blowing in, so does the specter of year-end lists. Tofubeat’s first full-length album Lost Decade is a lock to land somewhere on Make Believe Melodies’ top albums list, and if you haven’t bought a copy yet, get on that. Maltine Records, who…
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The label compilation serves as a great way to broadcast a mission statement for an imprint – here are the groups support, and this is who we are. Dead Funny Records have put out some excellent materials by the likes of Osaka’s The Paella’s, Saitama’s Fancy Books and Tokyo’s Jappers, but with their first official…
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The real news hook here might be that electronic artist/awkward-pairing master Idiot Pop has a record label. The first mp3 release on his titular imprint comes from the fantastic Carpainter, already responsible for one of the year’s finest EPs, and now back with two new songs on the Gravity Falls EP. His two originals are…
New i-fls: “Awareness To The Winter” Cassette EP
The titles of i-fls’ albums always seem like clues to what’s going on, but strangely enough his latest throws me for a loop. It has a title within a title – he is referring to a cassette named “Awareness To The Winter,” although I have no idea what that really means. Actual relic of the…
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