New MimiCof Video: “Aria, But Secret”
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Watch some wacky-altered footage of nature above.
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Watch some wacky-altered footage of nature above.
One of the best live sets I saw last year came courtesy of Jun Kamoda at last year’s Maltine Records event at WWW X, a shape-shifting and exhilarating hour of music featuring splashes of guitar and moments of pure release. Echoes of that set appear in “Blind Disco,” the first song from Kamoda’s forthcoming release…
When trying to talk about future funk and the variants on this micro-genre I personally find interesting, I’d point to Tanuki’s “Baby Baby No Yume” as a good example. It’s a heavy remix of an existing song that allows many of the main elements of the original to shine through, but re-arranges enough to offer…
South Korean pop outfit KARA have a new song and, by goodness, it might be the best single they’ve released yet. It’s a flurry of rainbow keyboards and lovely group singing culminating in an energetic little chorus. They shriek at times like they saw Michael Jackson rise from the grave. There is a mid-song freak…
Quick personal update – I’ve started contributing to fabulous music site Tokyo Indie, writing about noteworthy Japanese artists in the country today. The first installment focuses on MBM favorite Nu Clear Classmate, which you can read here. Coolest of all – now my posts can be read in Japanese! I’m strangely stoked about that.
Osaka’s OMEGABOY has been keeping himself busy – he kicked of 2012 with a handful of intriguing tracks, and a few weeks on he isn’t stopping. He’s posted a few new tracks to his Bandcamp, highlighted by “Babyrousa” which does away with vocals entirely in favor of pure dance, the whole thing pulsing with the…
It is the season for big-budget sequel, so why shouldn’t mysterious producer Metrotune create a sequel to last year’s semi-blogged chillwave zone-out “Casio Beach” just in time to go head-to-head with Harry Potter? “Casio Bay” does everything you’d expect the second-time around to do, choosing to stick to the same formula that worked for the…