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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So two prominent skateboard brands based out of Osaka (The Mint and Soundboarding) have teamed up with Vancouver-based outfit Beats For Change to release a Japan-centric compilation raising funds for the Japanese non-profit organization Second Harvest. All proceeds go to the group, and the comp features a bunch of producers from all over the world….
Kyoto’s Maho Littlebear offers up a slow-burning house number with ‘Do It,” her third song in the span of 22 days, and the best of the trio. She seems to work in spurts — she sorta vanished after releasing a lot of new songs about eight months ago, counting this still-incredible collaboration with Soleil Soleil….
Japanese Summer Orange gets sober on “The Ones,” a reflective number revealing new depth to the project. Up to this point, the semi-slacking outfit has been about stumbling about and feeling the hangover the next day, but “The Ones” heads out with a clear mind and a lot on its mind. The bedroom-recorded quality remains,…
Quick late-afternoon round-up of some good electronic stuff lurking around the edges of the Internet: – Sometimes, it’s good to let a lot of goofiness into your music. Dead End’s “Kaishin Shiro” is an acid-tinged dance number loaded up with vocal samples of people talking (at times about disco) and children giggling, along with a…
Look, I’m all for homages/attempts on hitching one’s wagon to a trend…but Vivian Boys??? Seriously? It would be one thing if they only took naming cues from a certain other Vivian band. Like, if they played folk music or made dubstep, this all would be a lot less of an issue. Thing is, they make…
The M3 offerings roll on, and this one especially jumps out. The Meister compilation finds Yuzame Label teaming up with Tokyo Sento — a site devoted to providing information about public baths in the capital — for a bath-themed set of songs. As far as tie-ups go, this is one I can get behind. The…