Fresh off a plethora of Lady Gaga remixes, Hoshina Anniversary has moved on to working on originals. He’s posted a short demo of a new song called “Cobra” over at MySpace and it sounds promising. “Cobra” has a very strobe-light feeling going for it thanks to some stuttering synths, though the real highlight of the…
Le Makeup’s recent documentations of daily life haven’t put much of a priority on his voice. Despite aiming to capture the unnerving feeling of a world getting worse, the young Osaka artist has so far avoided using words to do the work for him, letting the music set the atmosphere and whatever syllables get come…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-haZ2I6ywis”] So is this what it sounds like when the often glee-oozing Sebastian X tackle a ballad? Not quite…they aren’t Ayumi Hamasaki-ing it up for the song “Rose Garden, Baby Blue” from forthcoming full-length Futures (say that really fast). Yet the group’s standard-operating kitchen sink sound has been slowed a bit here, sparkling piano coupled…
Experimental outfit Nisennenmondai have been merging noisy clatter with touches of dance music since 1999, and in that span they’ve become known for putting on a heck of a live show. Now, thanks to the wonders of Bandcamp, you can enjoy that experience without having to turn off your Wii. Nisennenmondai Live! is just that…
“Wolves Running Through The Desert,” the B-side to Hotel Mexico’s forthcoming Double Denim single, shouldn’t be such a slippery song to think about. “A Space In The Loveless Field,” the A-side, seemed more demanding of introspection, the track’s slowly unfolding structure and general ennui the stuff that usually trips one up when trying to describe…
Tofubeats’ Hihatt imprint functions as an ideal artist-lead label. It’s a space where he can put out slow-burning dance sputters that probably make the higher ups at Warner Music sweat if presented for an album under their watch, and offering a chance to highlight other creators doing good work (see last year’s Rubber Band EP…