New Miii: “Rabbithunt”
Like I’m not posting an EDM-leaning track that samples Elmer Fudd. Listen above.
Like I’m not posting an EDM-leaning track that samples Elmer Fudd. Listen above.
Now in its sixth year, the Atomic Bomb Compilation continues to be one of the best collections of political music and juke going in Japan (and, really, globally). Let’s tackle the first element. For the first time in a few years, nuclear weapons and energy aren’t at the forefront of the summer news cycle. Yay?…
Tomggg has been laying down playroom-appropriate electronic music for most of this decade, proving influential enough to be an early cornerstone of “kawaii bass” and inspiring many after. But nothing wrong with mixing things up either, and Tomggg welcomes a new voice into his twinkly world on “Feel Ya,” a collaboration with American artist Ehiorobo….
Sit back, and let me tell you a tale of the year…2007. For a brief window of time, 70’s rock band Kansas’ song “Carry On My Wayward Sun” became the ironic/possibly-not-iornic-but-just-self-conscious song of choice for oh so many people going to my college. Thanks to the country-fried prog rockers appearance in the video game Guitar…
June is always a great time to revisit highlights from earlier months. Long-running electro act Technic Runner delivered a charmer earlier this year that is still very much worth diving into, and now they’ve shared a new track that feels like it could slide right on to Dream Machine. “Junjo Cyborg 80%” is a bouncy…
Using just a little echo and some other effects, Tokyo’s Santa Dharma transforms a pleasant bit of bedroom pop into something with blurred edges. The duo utilize a small set of instruments to create a sparse but bouncy little number that then gets wrapped in the aforementioned echo, a few dub touches and a few…
Hirokazu Tanaka isn’t just any video game soundtrack composer. He’s a legend, having helped create the familiar 8-bit musical backdrops for games such as Metroid and Tetris among others. And the songs for Earthbound, a game which I played a lot as a kid, and which boasts a soundtrack that still goes strong today. Part…