It’s year-end-list season, and that means it is really easy to start glossing over new releases in favor of getting that best-50 list just right. But that would be a mistake, with so much good music still rolling out. Haruru Inu Love Dog Tenshi’s debut album came out this week, and it’s a gem, highlighting…
Here you have three of the most important Japanese juke producers — two of its early advocates, plus a creator who consistently puts out the best stuff in the country AND helps offer a politicized space to showcase talent — working together on a series of releases where they play around with ideas over a…
大阪のダンスミュージックイベントINNITは開催ごとに出演アーティストのコンピを発表しています。アーティスト同士のコラボ作品など、今回の内容からは前回と少し違った個性が見られますが、１２月１６日のイベントにも出演する常連のMatthewdavidとAnenonは今回も参加しています。でもコラボも常に上手くいく訳ではなく…SeihoとLUVRAW & BTBの “Lady Are You Ready”なんかでは、ボコーダーの効いた多すぎるボーカルが、ボーカルサンプルだけでも高い完成度のトラックを作る事のできるSeihoの個性と衝突してしまっている気がします。他のトラックに関して言えば、いい仕上がりになっていると言えるでしょう。EadonmmとAstraltable、そしてMagical Mistakesとdoopiioのコラボではお互いの個性が上手く調和していて、納得のいく、ユニークなトラックに仕上がっています。Avec AvecのビビッドなシンセがMadeggの風変わりなビート感と見事にマッチしていますし、最後のAnd Vice VersaとNacoの曲は触ってしまいたくなるほど質感があり、本当に素晴らしいですので是非お聴き下さい。試聴は以下から。
It’s always nice to see an indie-pop outfit lean towards something slightly darker. Youthmemory, whose name should tip you off to how they’ve sounded in the past, inch towards the shadows on Neo Tokyo. Similar to how Moscow Club tried out all sorts of moods while still being centered around indie-pop sounds, the two songs…
Few terms make a music fan more queasy than “elevator music.” Critics whip out those six syllables like soldiers pull out grenades. So leave it to cutesy Nagoya duo Lullatone to embrace the idea of music you are forced to listen to while standing in a small space for several seconds. They’ve released a new…
Remember flip phones? Uami sure does, and “K. Kuyou Gara” serves as an ode to “Galapagos” phones, those chunky pieces of plastic that were once so ubiquitous (and kinda still are with salarymen who just need to make calls to one another). It’s a delicate song, featuring muffled vocals and lyrics reflecting on the fantasy…