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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Just in time to close out the autumn, Luby Sparks have a new EP of mostly maudlin indie-pop perfect for those who get down when the sun sets a few hours earlier. Save for opener “Perfect” and it’s charge-out-the-gates energy, the exquisitely titled (I’m) Lost In Sadness EP finds the group creating slow-burning downers. “Cherry…
Osaka’s electronic music community has produced a lot of different sounds — wonky, funky, house-leaning, hard-hitting, abstract. But I’m not really sure anyone in the last few years has really sounded particularly menacing. Well, producer Yullippe is here with the rumbling, intimidating Loop Bell set. She’s (and this is important, given how male-centric Osaka’s electronic…
Collective Noun’s new compilation Flower highlights a set of artists making music from the corners. The songs featured here are rarely showy, opting instead for sparseness and a sense of unease, conveyed through warped electronic sounds and samples. It leads off with one of the finest doing this parallel-world pop, Metoronori, who provides a woozy…
Nile Long, the new project featuring members of The Brixton Academy, now has a video for their first single “See Your Eyes,” which you can watch above. The track manages to both be very Brixton-Academy like – generally dancey, full of synths, singing that sound like Kermit The Frog wanted to start a new-wave band…
New MAP! This month, we highlight Left Right Arms. Check it out, and a bunch more of great tunes from around the world, below. Click the play button icon to listen to individual songs, right-click on the song title to download an mp3, or grab a zip file of the full 24-track compilation through Dropbox…
Could the world soon see another surge in artists relying heavily on video game noises? It’s possible…Crystal Castles just dropped a highly touted LP, and album-of-2010-thus-far Cosmogramma by Flying Lotus pushes 8-bit sounds into new far-out realms. So maybe chiptune raver 99 Letters can get a little attention from this could-be trend. He’s got another…