New Metome: “Koala”
Look, I’m trying to finish a big project, but when Metome drops a new song, I’m at least going to make a quick post to say…Metome dropped a new song, go listen to it above.
Look, I’m trying to finish a big project, but when Metome drops a new song, I’m at least going to make a quick post to say…Metome dropped a new song, go listen to it above.
Our look at the Good On The Dancefloor collective marches on today with the slipperiest in regards to genre labeling, AAPS. The only constant running through the three tracks up on their MySpace is “noisy.” “To Pieces” takes a modern rock guitar riff and submerges it in distortion to give it a much more sinister…
Producer Kotetsu released one of the stranger — and, accordingly, one of our pleasant surprises of 2017 — mixtapes earlier this year with MAVTAPE 1. Now, the Picnic Disco member has upped the ante with MAVDISC, featuring woozy songs from the tape alongside a bevy of new ones. “Gloss” is a shimmering highlight, a bouncy…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjnELDJNidg”] Fragment’s latest, “Polygonair,” starts with just percussion. His beats hit like pistons, a few other scattered sounds (hand claps, electronics trying to suck themselves up) popping up, but the early parts of this track dominated by those big pounds. It sounds like a laptop maestro’s take on Stomp! Fragment softens the blows by sprinkling…
In general, the lamest aspect of Vocaloid music culture in Japan is how it seems like few creating music using the singing-synthesizer program actually try to do something out of the ordinary with it. I mean, this is a voice you can do whatever you want, but the bulk of songs popping up online sound…
Ano(t)raks is growing up a bit. The indie-pop focused netlabel has seen its profile rise in recent years, and has been moving into a more physical direction as of late. To cement this, they’ve more or less split the Ano(t)raks brand in two — one side focusing on physical releases, while the newly minted +Ano(t)raks…
Tough to call any song Michiyo Honda puts out in 2011 ambitious when she’s already got that adjective ticked off by deciding to release a single a month this year. Yet latest offering “Wasurenai” turns out to be, well, just that. Whereas all of her other songs in the past seven months have clocked in…