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What separates Baroque from the rest of the Kidz Rec stable is pure dark matter. Most of the folks on 80kidz’s label, including the duo themselves, produce club-ready jams that, though abrasive at times, always keep one eye on the dance floor. Baroque understands sometimes people just want to cut loose, but he’s gonna force…
There’s a lot of twee music out there in Japan, but only a few bands who really stand out from the jangly masses. Nagoya’s Old Lacy Bed is one of them, an outfit that makes very bouncy indie-pop highlighted by their vocals and vocal harmonies, which give the music an extra litheness. All of that…
Check out my review of Friends’ Let’s Get Together Again in today’s Japan Times. Read it here. Good album! Also, expect a a bit more about Friends later today…wish it was Friday so I could go for the alliteration but alas!
Idol unit Happy Kuru Kuru have tried out a variety of producers over their young career, though a trend among the trackmakers they work with has certainly emerged. The pair often sing over high-energy music merging future bass with cuddlier touches — Yunomi’s roughneck playhouse being a common setting, with appearances by the likes of…
Look, the song here is just OK…for a phoned-in movie tie-in, its better than most but that’s a lousy standard to aspire to. It glitches and pops like a possessed SNES, and dares to be fizzier than, say, Perfume’s “Mirai No Museum.” The video, though, is great as ever. It’s some strange sports match between…
One of the first sounds that crops up on Anisakis’ new song is the sound of church bells ringing off somewhere in the distance. Normally, it’s a sound I associate with bustling European cities, images of Notre Dame and the surrounding beauty of Paris filling my head. Yet Anisakis make “Yoru No Yume Koso Makoto…