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New Masculin: “Ecstasy”

ByPatrick St. Michel March 16, 2012

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I’m still at SXSW, destroying my legs from walking and arteries from BBQ, but check out this new video for CUZ ME PAIN artist Masculin’s “Ecstasy.” OK, time to go out the door.

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New Monari Wakita: “Gozigen Lover-Joi”
ByPatrick St. Michel July 25, 2018

Look, if a former Especia member does something musically, this blog will almost certainly cover it. If parts of this HALLCA release lean in on nostalgia for Especia, Monari Wakita’s solo career has been an effort to take similar ideas and turn them into livelier numbers that seem to be a bit more focused on…

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New Ex Confusion: “I Remember When”
ByPatrick St. Michel May 3, 2019

Forget subtly — sometimes you have to just drip out the bad feelings until they’ve totally gone away (for a bit). Nara artist Ex Confusion has always let emotion all out in their music, and I Remember When stands as their melancholy masterstroke. These loops just really go into downcast territory, using a mix of…

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Horns!: JinnyOops!
ByPatrick St. Michel February 23, 2010

Fall a little behind on your blog reading and, yeesh, you find yourself totally out of the loop. Both JPOP Lover and personal-recent-discovery Neaux Clicked On It (it’s good, read it) recently big-upped JinnyOops! I think two makes a trend, especially in the tiny universe of Japanese music blogging. This Osaka five-piece plays a punk-tinged…

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New Sugar’s Campaign: “Netokano”
ByPatrick St. Michel January 23, 2012

[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpWCEIfvqzk”] The recent boom in electronic music in the Kansai area has thus far mostly been a story of individual producers, solo artists rapidly uploading new blasts of music to SoundCloud as fast as their Internet connection allows them to. Although a few places serve as gathering points for this scene – the parties put…

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New KiWi: “M.A.Z.E”
ByPatrick St. Michel May 17, 2016

KiWi’s commitment to spooky flair pays off big time on “M.A.Z.E,” a new number released via Good Enuff, a Mad Decent sublabel. It’s a swift electronic number, one with the peaks and valleys you would associate with a SoundCloud loosie — not to mention touches of trap and a razor-sharp vocal delivery — given a…

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New Mom: “Superstar”
ByPatrick St. Michel January 1, 2019

Happy New Year’s from Make Believe Melodies! To celebrate, here is a song that is more of a Christmas cut than anything else. But anything from Mom — responsible for two releases that landed at number three in our top ten album list — peeks our interest, and “Superstar” offers one of the more spacious…

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