Like I’m not posting an EDM-leaning track that samples Elmer Fudd. Listen above.
“Unnerving” isn’t quite the right words to describe “Over My Dead Body.” It comes close — and boy, do we love using that one whenever we can — but AAAMYYY’s latest ahead of her debut album Body does much more than just make us feel slightly uneasy while looking at the computer screen. While the…
Norwegian artist Henrik The Artist recently shared the buoyant “Peddi Max,” and then got a bunch of pals to remix the colorful hopper. The whole list premiered at Nest HQ, but we will focus on — as you’d expect — the four Japanese producers who put their spin on the track. It’s a netlabel-centric crew,…
For the longest time, my mind’s image of where Osaka’s The Paellas would perform would be at a slowly decaying night lounge, preferably taking the dinky stage at like 2 AM to play their fuzzed-out songs to a crowd of lost souls. This was almost reality the one time I saw the band perform live…
Uami is one of those artists who post and share so much online that keeping track of what is what can be tough. “Yakedo,” though, is definitely a new one from the artist, and a great glimpse into the sonic realm they’ve started creating. Flashes of Metoronori-style world building pop up over the course of…
Had you told me the first great album to come out of Japan in 2018 would arrive courtesy a Saitama genre-skipper who seemed like Ano(t)raks strangest inclusion in some time, well you definitely would have surprised me. But that’s the joy of doing this, hearing an artist like Mom deliver something like Baby Like A…
So a theme has developed this week — songs about living in Tokyo. We’ve had crushing, anxious and now via Datafruits founder Firedrill’s Shimokatastrophe, jittery. The first track “Soda Joint” sets the stage well — what starts as pleasant gets interrupted by a train announcement and away we go on an at times rubbery and…