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New Poncho + Casino Tart: Stars Are Never Linking EP

ByPatrick St. Michel April 4, 2017

The latest release from the team of Poncho and Casino Tart looks at the same track from four different angles. The track “Stars Are Never Linking” finds the Osaka juke duo crafting a dewy number featuring a sentimental vocal hook and all sorts of jittery details. The four “phases” of it present on this EP offer different interpretations of the same creation, ranging from the darty and off-kilter “Phase 2” to the finer-sliced “Phase 4.” Find your favorite by getting it here, or listening below.

<a href="http://koolswitchworks.bandcamp.com/album/stars-are-never-linking-e-p">Stars are never linking e.p. by Poncho＋Casino Tart</a>

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New Suiyoubi No Campanella: “Napoleon”
ByPatrick St. Michel March 8, 2015March 8, 2015

Complex Magazine UK recently compiled a list of “25 Artists You Need To Know” in the Japanese hip-hop scene. Between more than valid choices (KOHH, aided by his “It G Ma’ turn) to…like, great choices, except completely bizarre given the vague “newness” of this listicle (Nujabes), it was what you would expect from a music…

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New Guchon: 9999/Namahage
ByPatrick St. Michel March 29, 2017

Producer Guchon has been a netlabel staple for more than a decade now, having released some of the earliest (maybe THE earliest, if you count mixes) material on Maltine Records, while hopping around several other digital imprints too. Sabacan Records has hosted several of his creations, and they bring the world the one-two punch of…

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Sounds From The Other Side: Buddy Girl And Mechanic’s Buddy Girl And Mechanic
ByPatrick St. Michel February 25, 2013February 27, 2013

Buddy Girl And Mechanicのデビューアルバムは寒い２月の気温以上にチルな気分にさせてくれます。このBuddy Girl And Mechanicはゆったりと始まり、全体を通してゆっくり。それによりこのバンドが得意な遊び心の効いた工夫が活かされるのです。オープナー”Ultra Witch Crafty Fab”なんかはクラウト・ロックを落ち着かせたような印象。７分以上もあるもののクライマックスなんかは無く、同じペースで進んで行くわけなのですが、左右に散りばめられた様々な音色によって飽きのこない曲に仕上がっています。同じく東京のMilla And The Geekの”New Age”に近いものの、Milla And the geeksはノイズ、Buddy Girl And Mechanicは空間と多彩な楽器を使って表現しているという点で異なります。”Buddy My Cloud”はさらにゆったり。シンプルなパーカッションとギターや、アンビエントなボーカルによるオーガニックなサウンドが心地良いです。逆に”Fenix”なんかではちゃんとドラムとベースがあり、キーボードもボーカルのエフェクトも多彩で良い意味で怪しい雰囲気に。３曲試聴可能ですよ。

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New House Of Tapes: Hidden Memory
ByPatrick St. Michel November 24, 2014

What, exactly, is the end game for an indie producer? Looking at the landscape in Japan in 2014, the answer would be “get the chance to produce for someone else, maybe on a bigger label,” with the ultimate prize being the chance to be turned into a project worth pushing all your own. Nagoya’s House…

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New Kyary Pamyu Pamyu: “Family Party”
ByPatrick St. Michel April 9, 2014

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…

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New Ryuei Kotoge: “E”
ByPatrick St. Michel May 6, 2015

Let’s take a break from the kawaii party to get heady with Kansai’s always reliable Ryuei Kotoge, who shared the new song “E” recently. It is, like a lot of Kotoge’s music, a spacious beat hiding some very pretty celestial coos, but with jusssssssst enough of a thump to remember the body is as important…

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