New Kindan No Tasuketsu: “Crazy”
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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I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: elevating simple beat music to something that can stand on its own isn’t easy, but doable. Producer Parmot manages it with this two-song release, a slightly fuzzy offering in the same avenue as the dizzying sample-twisters that ΔKTR specializes in. “If U R Near” takes squiggly…
New Jun Kamoda: “Blind Disco”
One of the best live sets I saw last year came courtesy of Jun Kamoda at last year’s Maltine Records event at WWW X, a shape-shifting and exhilarating hour of music featuring splashes of guitar and moments of pure release. Echoes of that set appear in “Blind Disco,” the first song from Kamoda’s forthcoming release…
Reviewed Qrion’s EP Sink For The Japan Times
I don’t share what I write for other sites much here anymore just because I already share them enough on Twitter and Tumblr…but this one is a little different, because I held out on writing about Qrion here in order to review it for The Japan Times. The Sapporo producer’s new Sink is a lovely,…
Seiho Remixes Ryan Hemsworth: “Against A Wall” (Featuring Lofty305)
The main reason this is going up is because it’s a great reworking of Ryan Hemsworth’s “Against A Wall,” featuring Lofty305. The always wonky Seiho gives the song a jazzy edge – throwbacks to his earliest recordings on Day Tripper – along with a reggae-ish (!) vibe, while also dropping in waves of synths. Listen…
New Carpainter: “Orange Wind”
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New Sakanaction: “Identity”
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1awua0YrSRs&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xd0d0d0&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1] For some reason the music of Sakanaction never really grabbed me much before “Identity,” there latest single out on August 4th. This new song just sounds better than anything else I’ve heard from them. It boasts big sing-a-long sections deployed by countless English bands (Klaxons, Foals, Delphic, the list stretches into infinity) but never…