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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Ahhhhh, the sweet sweet arrival of a new FOGPAK. The tenth edition of what has become Japan’s best entryway into independent electronic music is a strong collection, made somewhat better because the tracklist has been trimmed down slightly – before, these things could get close to 50, but here it is a far more reasonable…
The success of “Yawarakai” isn’t so much in the fact rapper Tamana Ramen sounds sadder or downtrodden, but rather how the music backing her up allows her to play around with the mood. Moving in the same direction as many of her peers in a new Japanese rap community, Tamana Ramen embraces guitar playing better…
So far in 2019, there have been two prominent J-pop songs about J-pop itself, at least to some degrees. Teenager SASUKE practically gives the industry an entire pep talk with a song going to great lengths to tell you J-pop will never end (raising the stakes significantly with a line about how “Japanese people will…
Here’s the latest from Osaka’s And Vice Versa, the lightheaded-bounce “Close To You.” Like fellow Day Tripper Records artist/INNIT pal Seiho, And Vice Versa takes a shining to sliced-up-and-otherwise-altered vocals for “Close To You,” most of the track’s five minutes stuffed with some variety of electronically grazed voice. Yet “Close To You” isn’t just a…
Last year, Osaka producer Metome released his full-length Objet at the very, very start of 2014. It was a whirlwind of an album, created so that every bass slap and pitched-up vocal sample hit at just the right spot, and was one of the year’s best in Japan. Well, Metome appears to like dropping fantastic…
Teen Runnings have teamed up with California indie-pop band Sea Lions on a new split release called Home Recordings. Neotomic Records!, who write that they are “purveyors of indie and bedroom pop,” are releasing Home Recordings as a limited-run cassette. On the Teen Runnings side of things, this split features a handful of demo songs…