New Polysics: “Let’s Dabadaba”
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Watch it above.
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Watch it above.
I don’t know about you, but it has been a long week and I’m looking forward to a nice relaxing weekend. To help set the mood, enjoy feather-in-the-wind instrumental outfit Hyakkei. Their latest song “Kagerou Railway” removes the “epic” out of post-rock, turning what could have been a soundtrack for a high school football game…
Knew this was coming and already got excited about “Track Maker,” but now via Trekkie Trax comes the Mass Maker EP, which I believe is Kyoto artist Native Rapper’s first proper collection of songs. I want to try to write about this later, but if you liked “Track Maker” or still vibe out as hard…
Need another reason to stay strong during the last month-and-something of winter besides the hope of not having to wear a peacoat inside anymore? Indie-poppers Sloppy Joe got one for you – they will drop a new album called With Kisses Four on March 9, and if that seems far off they’ve posted a quartet…
The title along with the lyrics – “take me to the place to dance,” the first words sang here – hint at this being a total release of a song, one potentially about losing yourself and living while your young and so forth. Yet Kyoto’s Maho Littlebear hasn’t gone full EDM-pop-in-spirit on “Summer Nights.” Her…
Qrion has been getting a lot of looks outside of Japan over the last year, and here’s one more bullet point for the resume. The Hokkaido producer has worked with Berlin-based artist Deadbear on the song “Tongues,” a dreamy little number loaded with glockenspiel and distorted vocals. I think Qrion adds a little of her…
At some point in January, I said my 2011 resolution would be to cover rap more here. Well, it’s April and here is the first Japanese-centric hip-hop post that isn’t American (sorry Odd Future) or fake-ass “rap” (sorry Funky Monkey Babys). Personal aside, I’m hesitant to write about Japanese rap because there already exists an…