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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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Osaka Double Dip: New Soleil Soleil And In The Blue Shirt
ByPatrick St. Michel July 13, 2015

The always musically fertile Kansai region houses two producers responsible for a pair of 2015’s best releases — Soleil Soleil and In The Blue Shirt — and the two released new works tonight, pretty close to one another. Great timing! Soleil Soleil’s “She Keeps Me Warm” is on the sparse side, the house-loving producer seemingly…

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New Amunoa: Grief
ByPatrick St. Michel March 12, 2019

I associate a lot of feelings with independent Japanese electronic music — joy, togetherness, escape, ecstasy, lower back pain (owing to a crowd surfer jumping directly onto me at a Pa’s Lam System show…great set, though). But vulnerability isn’t one that has exactly cropped up much in the decade I’ve been following it. Releases and…

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The Harpy’s – “a Lost,” “HER SHE’S” And “Clushed Cake”
ByPatrick St. Michel September 5, 2010

Three new tracks from Tokyo’s The Harpy’s, an all-girls trio who treat assigned band roles with very little regard. Everyone sings over the dusty garage-rock grooves, and the whole affair ends up sounding like a particularly booze-rich jam session. The three new songs dabble in various styles, from straight-ahead rock (“HER SHE’S”) to weirder fare…

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Listen To Cuts From Love And Hates’ Debut Album Now
ByPatrick St. Michel November 13, 2011

L.A.H, the self-titled debut album from Tokyo twee-crunk duo Love And Hates, comes out in early December, but you can hear four tracks from HNC and Moe’s (Miila And The Geeks) rappy project now. The concept behind Love And Hates might seem offsetting at first – rap music done by two Japanese women fond of…

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Nothing Wrong With Sprawling Out: Bananafish
ByPatrick St. Michel February 2, 2011

Bananafish don’t intend to write music meant to soundtrack your next trip to Sandals – it just happens to be laid back enough to do just that. This trio, at least at first brush, lay down beach-resort grooves content to spend the day glued to a towel, sipping beer while watching the sunset. It’s not…

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No Idol Concept: Partyarise’s “Fuwa Fuwa Moko Moko”
ByPatrick St. Michel October 24, 2014

As an idea, Partyarise’s guiding principle isn’t actually that fresh. “Club music meets idol!” has been going strong well before this project started a SoundCloud page, and has only picked up steam. So Partyarise and first song “Fuwa Fuwa Moko Moko” aren’t breaking any new ground…just go to Mogra, ya know…but it sounds plenty nice…

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