The word “resort” pops up a lot around OKLobby, a producer in Tokyo. His first EP under this name is titled Resortworks, and it includes a song called “Mind Resort Scidaria.” Along with the use of “lobby” in the project’s name, it would be tempting to think that OKLobby would exist somewhere between 2012 en-vogue…
Critical to Yoshino Yoshikawa’s music has always been the depth he brings to his music. His songs feature depth and a lot of clever details that push them out from an internet-centered scene that sometimes does the immediate, overwhelming vibe too much. “Mirage,” the first number to emerge from his forthcoming album Event Horizon via…
Chelmico’s switch to a major label has, so far at least, found the pair focusing more on more outright up-tempo material. “Balloon” offers a breather, finding the duo reeling back the energy for at least one number in favor of laid-back rapping (and a little singing) over a sparse jazz-inspired beat moved forward by keyboard…
One final song for the weekend, and one more Tokyo-themed track from a Maltine artist performing at Monday’s Maltine “Tokyo” live event. Yoshino Yoshikawa teams up with LASTorder for…here’s that place again…”Tokyo,” a bouncy, fidgety electro-pop number continuing in Yoshikawa’s recent tradition of not really altering the vocals in anyway. Whereas in the past tasteful…
It’s strange connecting dots after the fact. A few years back, D∀NGER D∀NGER was just an electro-pop outfit with one solid EP behind their syntax-shattering name. They inspired more Twitter conversations about punctuation than anything else, though that’s more the fault of writers than anything else. Three years later and Jay-Z is now JAY-Z, and…
The danger in nostalgia is getting stuck. It’s easy to ground yourself in the best thing you heard when you were 20 and never budge…or go even further back, a move making everything happening in front of you in the now seem like junk compared to the good old days. But seeing the now…and how…