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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Happy Thanksgiving! Here’s Osaka producer Tomoyu with “All Hope Is Gone,” a rattling number sure to give you plenty of good vibes on Turkey Day. “Unsettling” is a word I love to roll out, and “All Hope Is Gone” delivers that feeling plenty, fueled by icy drum machine patterns and (especially) the way the voices…
Geez, I’m losing my edge…a lot of new music passes by everyday, but whiffing on a new Picnic Women release that came out at the start of July? Shameful. Especially because of how good the 50 Shades Of Fool EP is, one of the best in the (very high quality) discography that is Picnic Women….
Gotta switch to a tab not playing the video for this one. Tempalay’s brand of Mac DeMarco-indebted goofballery is hit or miss, but in the past it at least matched up with the general vibe of the music (shambling, silly, one more drink away from waking up next to Hachiko). With “Doushiyou,” the accompanying video…
In which Sapporo’s Qrion, who has spent most of the year sharing relatively skeletal tracks that would sound at home in a misty forest, reveals her party side. It isn’t a total deviation from her other works this year…it still opens with a rush of strings and airy vocal samples, and at one point nearly…
Quinka, With A Yawn released a great album last year called Su. Now she brings the world a follow-up…and it’s a collection of cover songs done in bossa-nova style. Seriously. The simply titled Afternoon Bossa finds Michiko Aoki re-imagining 10 songs into Brazilian-tinged numbers. Look forward to hearing Oasis (“Whatever”), Coldplay (“Viva La Vida”) and…
Japan’s first lady and intergalactic traveler Miyuki Hatoyama recently sang “Happy Birthday” as part of UNICEF’s Happy Birthday project. It’s for an excellent cause, so check out the site and give Hatoyama’s version a go. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9sN6mXwFWY&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1] (Via Japan Probe)