Like I’m not posting an EDM-leaning track that samples Elmer Fudd. Listen above.
I’m in Singapore for the next three days! I wasn’t going to post anything, but my phone is charging and this Daoko song is alright so…why not? I’m going to break one of my self-imposed rules and admit this is one where the video is way better than the song — though, really, that is…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sm7do6KPaok”] Second Royal records out of Kyoto seem to be having a busy week, what with two new releases out now. The first seems a bit…uhhh unnecessary. It’s a compilation album, and usually Second Royal kills it with these things, the recent state-of-the-label releases sharing exciting new tunes from old staples and new signings. The…
The title track to this new EP is something I’ve already written about over here, so I won’t gush too much more about it. But since that one fist-pumped into existence, it has become my most played song of the year thus far easily, and it is an incredible blast of ecstasy whenever it gets…
Taking us into the working week is this dreamy collaboration between long-running house producer Shinichiro Yokota and England-based (but formerly in Japan) Pleasure Cruiser. It’s a nice escape from the drudgery ahead, or at least that’s how I’m expecting all those electronic chirps and the gauze wrapping around the whole song to feel come the…
New group Lucky Tapes – fronted by Kai Takahashi – have their debut EP out now, and here’s another taste of the laid-back group’s sound. “In Paris” is an especially Sunday-morning-in-bed-ready song, a slow groover of a number that adds sweet vocal dollops behind Takahashi’s love talk. Listen below.
New year, new Music Alliance Pact post! Why not continue adjusting to 2012 with the help of the following songs, selected by music blogs based all around the world. For MAP this go around, Make Believe Melodies chose ferocious Tokyo rockers Praha Depart and their song “Portrait Man” (which placed #36 in our top songs…