New Polysics: “Let’s Dabadaba”
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Watch it above.
Ominous is the word that comes to the front of my noggin when listening to “Yatagarasu,” the slowly unfolding track from Tokyo producer Lisachris. The music I’ve heard from her before…and seen her play at a couple of live shows…has leaned closer to trap with a heavy mix of American hip-hop touches (and verses). That…
“Taker Giver Pool” offers another angle on producer Pavilion Xool’s sound. The young Tokyo-based artist has some swift moments in his catalog, but “Taker Giver Pool” unfolds the quickest of anything they’ve released yet. The beat just moves quicker, the whole song feeling all the more woozy because of Pavilion Xool’s use of pitched vocal…
Dance producer Hoshina Anniversary is a long-time favorite of this blog, so we were happy to log in after a bit of a vacation and see that he has recently shared a new EP. Phone Case features five new songs from the Tokyo-based creator, leaning on side-to-side electronic numbers. This includes rumblers such as “Build…
Takanax is a Japanese producer floating around netlabel Sy4in Records, doing plenty of solid work on their own, too. “Forest” is the artist’s latest, and it is a surprisingly contemplative number, at least by dance-centric internet standards. It features synth-generated moans and 8-bit frosting, but never goes too cutesy (or maximalist), instead opting for a…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbvyNH8sXDg”] The term “techno-pop” or “electro-pop,” especially when applied to the Japanese pop scene, usually refers to a very manic sort of sound clogged to the gills with noises. Think Perfume or MEG or Cosmetics, you get the idea. Frenesi’s latest single boasts plenty of techno-pop signals – see the programmed beat, 80s-cheese pad hits…
Le Makeup’s recent documentations of daily life haven’t put much of a priority on his voice. Despite aiming to capture the unnerving feeling of a world getting worse, the young Osaka artist has so far avoided using words to do the work for him, letting the music set the atmosphere and whatever syllables get come…