When you read this, I will probably be in an airplane heading back to Japan. Thus, posts are still gonna’ be a little sporadic. Anyway, here is a new one from Madegg called “Float Ring.” Listen below!
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Electronic artist De De Mouse wowed this year by crossing bright cartoony sounds with drum and bass. Wood Solid Dance Jam apply a similar strategy, but instead of electronic music they drizzle breakbeats over jazzy compositions. If Music Is Rotted one Note instantly came to mind, you know how this goes – WSDJ take a…
Been a second since writing about the hazy indie rap scene starting to emerge (or at least become more clear) in Japan, but that’s more because the artists in it are branching out to platforms not as friendly towards our brand of blogging. If you have access to a streaming music site, go seek out…
Synergy! Today in The Japan Times, I reviewed Turbo Town, the new album from rock-dance duo 80Kidz. Read it here. The nitty gritty of it – Turbo Town is a very good album with occasional great moments, but it’s also an album where 80Kidz end up sabotaging themselves by not being confident enough to do…
recruit by the oto factory Funky synth-pop outfit have called on…errrr, recruited?…some friends to help them out on their new release via Ano(t)raks. And turns out guest singers and contributors help boos their music up a level. While not the first time they’ve called on others to jump on their loose-limbed neon grooves, this is…
This is like catnip for me. City Your City’s “Share” is a number that drips like syrup, the duo dousing their vocals in digital manipulation and singing over synthesizer and drum machine, the focus completely on those altered voices. It’s the latest example of artists seemingly indebted to James Blake (or Kanye, your choice) stepping…
Less a song and more a series of blissed-out electronic waves, Panacea Phantastica’s just-shared “Introse” is calming in a way few songs can be. It borrows an approach typically found in drone music — steady stream of quiet-to-loud passages — but builds it up so that her vocals can sneak in and take the song…