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New Molice Video: “Into You”

ByPatrick St. Michel April 7, 2011

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Creepy black and white! Weird images! Random words flashing on screen! Plus explosions! See it above in the new Molice video.

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Watch The Throne: Ayumi Hamasaki’s “Brillante”
ByPatrick St. Michel October 6, 2011

Nobody else in the Japanese music landscape could have pulled this, a Sphinx-sized ballad coping ideas from the Middle East and summoning what might as well be a chorus from a Greek epic, off. On paper…and maybe on initial listen…this seems bloated and ridiculous, pretty much the opposite of Occupy Wall Street manned by an…

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Make Believe Melodies’ Top 50 Japanese Songs Of 2010: 30-21
ByPatrick St. Michel December 15, 2010

30. Salyu “新しいYES” A lot has changed since I first wrote about this song back on April 1st…I don’t know what chemicals I got slizzered on when I compared Salyu to Erykah Badu and Cosmogramma ran away with my “album of 2010” honors…but this track’s selling point stays the same. I can assure you no…

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Familiar Names: ・・・・・・・・・’s “Slider”
ByPatrick St. Michel August 9, 2017

The early 2010’s idol scene found groups grasping for any visual or sonic cue that would help them stand out from the crowd. Latching onto a specific genre could pay off big time, but it could also result in strange creations such as air guitar idols or steam-punk-themed outfits (with terrible music). Novelty has always…

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New Foodman: This Is A Pen
ByPatrick St. Michel August 26, 2015

Yokohama-based producer Foodman has long been fascinated by the sounds things make, and isn’t afraid to let this curiosity result in confrontational music. His latest EP This Is A Pen opens with one of his most disorienting songs in recent memories (so, like, before the summer maybe), “Udon Soba,” which loads up on samples and…

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New Erik Luebs: Cycle 1 | January
ByPatrick St. Michel January 5, 2018

Tokyo-based electronic producer Erik Luebs kicked in the new year with a dizzying two-song set built for the dancefloor. Cycle 1 | January finds Luebs laying down something quicker paced than other recent tracks from him, which in 2017 tended to be a bit more shadowy and cerebral. Yet something like “Pressed” just zips ahead,…

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Westward Rumblings: Yullippe’s Loop Bell
ByPatrick St. Michel April 22, 2015

Osaka’s electronic music community has produced a lot of different sounds — wonky, funky, house-leaning, hard-hitting, abstract. But I’m not really sure anyone in the last few years has really sounded particularly menacing. Well, producer Yullippe is here with the rumbling, intimidating Loop Bell set. She’s (and this is important, given how male-centric Osaka’s electronic…

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