New Polysics: “Let’s Dabadaba”
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Watch it above.
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Watch it above.
The short version: Well, this is fucked up in a really fun way. The long version: Wasabi Tapes is a new venture launched by the guy behind the Japanese music blog (and, if you can navigate the language, a blog Make Believe Melodies strongly recommends adding to your bookmarks) Hi-Hi Whoopee. The label deals in…
Hiroshima producer CRZKNY was last spotted organizing this past August’s fantastic Atomic Bomb Compilation Vol. 2, and now he’s manning his own project, the L.O.L. EP. In contrast to the politically charged electronic songs on the comp he oversaw…not to mention many of his previous EPs…L.O.L. is pretty straightforward in delivering footwork-leaning tracks, most of…
Look, I’m watching the second half of this Japan-Colombia World Cup game and it is stupid stressful, here is a new song from Osaka’s Soleil Soleil, it’s good. Back to sitting all scrunched up like seeing if Japan can score two goals….
No label does compilations quite like Ano(t)raks. This decade, their stuffed-tight collections have highlighted artists who have gone on too much bigger things in the Japanese market…and also highlighted some of the more interesting artists to stay in the indie world, too. Die In Pop is the label’s latest, and like previous efforts offers a…
Predawn’s always sounded intimate, the folk-leaning songs on her Ten Minutes With Predawn EP and her 2010 longplayer A Bird In The Hand coming off like personal journal scribblings. Yet even on those sparse and confessional tracks, the Tokyo artists never sounded particularly fragile – even on the downtrodden “What Does It Mean?” she kept…
Japanese indie-poppers Soda Fountains serve as a sort of cuddly litmus test: if you can’t handle hearty handfuls of cute in music, you’ll detest this group. But if the word twee turns you on, and tunes about sunny picnics and rainbows get you going…meet Soda Fountains. They have a new album out on Oct. 28,…