Like I’m not posting an EDM-leaning track that samples Elmer Fudd. Listen above.
I was thinking the other day about the trajectory of musical trends, especially after it was announced Tatsuro Yamashita and Takeuchi Mariya were writing a song for Arashi. It’s a moment that signifies the whole City Pop revival thing has reached a certain peak — not because the sound present on that song is even…
There’s something thrilling about an artist just being entranced by specific sounds, and then seeing what they construct with them. For the past three-so years, I’ve mostly been drawn to the experimental side of this fancy — Foodman, Wasabi Tapes, Taquwami, etc. Yet this feeling manifests itself frequently in the more traditional dance community too,…
Sometimes, music just falls between the cracks. It’s a damn shame when those out-of-sight tunes end up being really great. The Insect Kids posted a couple of new, stripped down indie-pop jams at some point this year, and I completely didn’t notice them until today. Whoooops! These new tunes appear to be on a forthcoming…
Fidgety is the word for Osaka producer Metome’s offering, even more so than usual. “Mother Data” pops and locks all over the place, a flurry of synths zooming in from the left while some processed bass notes zip in on the right, never really meeting in the middle but sorta bouncing off one another as…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBcrQ8-GvF0″] Creepy black and white! Weird images! Random words flashing on screen! Plus explosions! See it above in the new Molice video.
Back in April, I bought an EP from indie-pop outfit BOYISH. Inside the flimsy packaging was a little comic that explained the band’s origins – to sum it up, albeit without the cuteness of the actual doodling, the members of BOYISH saw a band called Teen Runnings (who we love) and it inspired them to…