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New Kindan No Tasuketsu: “Crazy”

ByPatrick St. Michel July 2, 2014

Here’s a slow burner from Kindan No Tasuketsu, “Crazy.” It unfolds like a nursery rhyme (that chorus), and features a wild keyboard solo amidst all the longing.

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New DJ Fulltono, CRZKNY And Skip Club Orchestra: Draping 7
ByPatrick St. Michel February 15, 2019

The Draping series keeps on delivering, and the seventh installment in a project bringing together three heavyweights of the Japanese juke community stands as a highlight. This trio of track brings the energy, each creator offering up one of their briskets creations to date. DJ Fulltono gets it going by embracing repetition with a particularly…

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New Metome: “Sweeter Than Sweet”
ByPatrick St. Michel March 26, 2015

Osaka’s Metome has always been good at making space work for him – as tightly controlled as his songs have been, they’ve always relied on timing to make them snap even harder, and sometimes a second long pause was all that was needed to make a sudden rush of electronics all the more powerful. “Sweeter…

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Youth Genius (NOKIES! Solo-Member Project)
ByPatrick St. Michel November 6, 2012

This year, Kansai rock group NOKIES! released their debut full-length album Between The Blinks through Flake Records and Tower Records. Prior to 2012, the band had mostly played jittery indie-pop in the mold of Los Campesinos!, but with Blinks they laid off the caffeine and stuck to their prescription – probably owing to its placement…

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New Ryuuta Takaki: Cosmic Era Vol. 1
ByPatrick St. Michel March 20, 2014

Japan’s electronic music scene has mutated into all sorts of fascinating shapes – the spastic lockstep of Seiho, the gooey synth washes courtesy of Avec Avec, the hair-raising lurch of Eadonmm just to name a few – yet most of it originated from the same place. Many of these artists came from (or were inspired…

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New Mom: “Boys And Girls”
ByPatrick St. Michel March 18, 2019

Not to puff it up too much, but Mom has…kind of gotten big? OK, more like “rising steadily” but since releasing an album late last year the genre hop-scotcher has gotten a decent amount of attention, and also appeared in an ad for Apple. This is all lining up for Mom’s next album, May’s Detox,…

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Set Me Twee: Les Glass Glacé
ByPatrick St. Michel February 28, 2012

Early in this blog’s history, I was obsessed with indie-pop. Whether it was a holdover of my time in college where I bragged about liking The Field Mice (not the coolest kid in the dorm, as you could imagine) or because I still sometimes read Nitsuh Abebe’s “Twee As Fuck” article in awe, Make Believe…

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