HNC has a new song out now, called “Don’t You Think You Come To Love Me.” It’s a nice hop-scotch pop number complete with kazoos that would have fit perfectly fine on Cult. Listen to a bit of it here, or buy the whole shebang on iTunes.
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In related news, HNC’s side project Love And Hates has a new lo-fi song up on their MySpace page called “No. 1.”
If this is what prison sounds like, sign me up! (Note, don’t sign me up) Michiyo Honda steps away from the dance-centric side she’s been exploring on her last few monthly singles, this time opting for feather-floaty easy-breeziness. Honda constructs an aural hammock using electro-bleeps alongside some keyboard, her voice pitched to be just as…
“Winter Valentine”を説明するにはいくつかのアプローチ方法があります。ボーカロイド好きのアーティストmus.hibaとBrightonを拠点とするゲーム音楽プロデューサーCalum Bowenのコラボレーション作品なのですが、国内外でのコラボでは最先端と言えるのでは（例えばi-flsとmus.hibaとZoom LensだったりCokiyuとBathsだったり)。この曲ではmus.hibaによる雪歌ユフの声と、(おそらく)人間の歌声がデュエットしています。こういう事もボーカロイドの持つポテンシャルと言えるでしょう。が、そんなうんちくを抜きにしても”Winter Valentine”は素晴らしい。9-Bit Blizzardというコンピに収録されているのですが、mus.hibaの “Magical Fizzy Drink”と同様に、ゲームぽさを匂わせつつも、それはほんのディテールであって全てではない。始まりは愛らしい子供時代のような雰囲気で２人のボーカルが交互に歌います。まるで星のカービィのような世界観なのですが、ここからは素晴らしい展開が。mus.hibaとBowenの両者が多くのアイディアを出したというのが聴いていてわかる程アイディアに満ちていて、１つのネタに留まらず、様々な方向に移行していくメロディが圧巻です。コラボレーションとはこういう事でしょう？試聴は以下から。
I completely forgot it is Easter this weekend, and for many folks that means extra days off. So…here are some new Japanese electronic songs to savor over the holiday. – New Seiho, yessssssssss. “Plastic” isn’t as fidgety as the Osaka producer has gotten in the past – but he certainly stuffs a whole bunch of…
Nagoya-based electronic artist Noah’s new album Siviutie came out today in Japan via Flau. If you live in Japan, definitely go get that, otherwise you should pre-order because it is one of the best albums released out of this side of the world thus far in 2015. I’ll have a bit more about Noah and…
Wherein Boogie Idol covers the theme song to Supermarket Sweep, and does more to play around with the ideas often attributed to vaporwave better than any modern form of that niche genre going. This moment, closing out the producer’s latest release Shitashimiyasusa, offers a good summation of what makes the album and Boogie Idol in…
The temperature rarely stops producers from putting out warm, summer-ready music, but now that the season actually reflects the sound, something like Tenma Tenma’s “Nettaiya” connects way more powerfully than if it was the end of February. The Osaka artist has put out some solid stuff before — see this winter’s Kitahama, though maybe that…