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New House Of Tapes: “Melodia”
After a stretch where Nagoya’s House Of Tapes explored the more melodic side of his sound, here comes “Melodia,” a deep-space nebula of a song spouting all over the place. Neither constricting like earlier House Of Tapes’ songs nor peacefully ambient, “Melodia” twinkles and stumbles about, rarely staying in place long enough for one consistent…
New Pavilion Xool: “Taker Giver Pool”
“Taker Giver Pool” offers another angle on producer Pavilion Xool’s sound. The young Tokyo-based artist has some swift moments in his catalog, but “Taker Giver Pool” unfolds the quickest of anything they’ve released yet. The beat just moves quicker, the whole song feeling all the more woozy because of Pavilion Xool’s use of pitched vocal…
Into The Move: Yukio Nohara Featuring Pee. J Anderson “Floresta”
Yukio Nohara teams up with Pee. J Anderson for an understated disco cut. Nothing too complex with this one — the pair start simple with a beat and a bass line, slowly adding a few other elements. Yet they never go overboard with it, as the bulk of “Floresta” revolves around the same two pieces…
New Cairophenomenons: “In Ten Years”
Sometimes a brighter outlook works wonder, even if really digging into optimistic feelings leads to a lot of questions about how warranted they are. Cairophenomenons veer between uneasy indie-pop and more outright upbeat numbers, and “In Ten Years” definitely falls into the latter. The musical details that would have been used to unnerve in the…
New Yunovation: “Hogaraka Ni”
On the one hand — it remains incredible how much Yunovation can pull off with a melodica. The Osaka artist’s calling card is her proficiency with the instrument, and first album Hogaraka Ni shows just how deft she can be with something most people view as a toy foisted on easily distracted pre-schoolers. “Roki Store”…
Programming Alert: I’m At The Fuji Rock Festival This Weekend
First order of business, you might notice the blog looks a little different today. That’s because we have just launched a new redesign (a little early…even to the author) and we have a lot of exciting new developments coming in the near future. So yeah, feel free to poke around and let us know about…
