Needed something to write up quickly for a busy night…and along comes Metoronori with a new, short look into her alternate-dimension pop world. This brief but intriguing song is the first taste of her new album Hanryo, which is out in August. Definitely one to look forward for those who like their warm weather months soundtracked by something just off-kilter. Listen above.
DJ LAKILAKI has, according to her MySpace profile, “love for Thaidisco,her tracks are filled with tropical flavors, but it still has Japanese oriental flavors to it.” This sorta of line drips with public relations sweat, the kind of mind-boggling prose a recent journalism school graduate cobbles together when they realize rent isn’t getting paid anytime…
東京のアーティストRyuuta TakakiのStillness EPにおいて、その定義は後半のトラック”Phantasm”に込められています。始まりはミニマルでリラックスしていて、楽園をシンセサイザーで再現しているかのよう。その音は鳥のさえずりを彷彿とさせていて、速いビートとは妙な違和感が。しかし一分を経過したくらいからは激しいクラブ・サウンドに変貌します。と思ったら…曲は再びアンビエントに。Takakiが静けさと激しさの狭間を追求したEPの絶好のスナップショットと言えるでしょう。タイトルは自然を連想するものが多く（”Under The Water,” “Chill Wind,” “Sleety Rain”等）、ミニマルな構成が特徴的です。でもノイズを活かした、よりダンサブルなトラックなんかもあります。Ryuuta Takakiのスタイルを知るにはうってつけの８曲作品になっています。試聴はこちらから。
This narrative writes itself, practically. Le Makeup’s voice had long been buried in his music, then in 2018 it started creeping closer and closer, and now comes End Roll wherein it is the most important element of each song. The three songs here are some of the most straightforward ones Le Makeup has created, with…
Another day, another hazy bit of bedroom pop leaking out of the CUZ ME PAIN family, this time from Atlas Young. “Transfixing” hits all the pleasure points that makes Young’s music enjoyable…rainbow-bright music flowing over heavily obscured vocals, all resulting in something best described as “encompassing.” Nothing really drastically different on this go from Atlas…
The duo of KiWi dabble in a lot of sounds that have been ever present in Japan’s electronic music scene for the last few years — spine-cracking bass, trap-appropriate beats, fast tempos — but they’ve managed to stand out thanks to their flair for the dramatic. The KiWi project features a legit story, with characters…
This one gets a little confusing. Zana Caroline and featured guest Kaki are actually the same person. A visit to her blog…which boasts the same run-together name as this song…reveals that Kaki is in her words “my alter ego that I created one year ago when I came back from Japan and I was unemployed…