Producer Rigly Chang is launching a new house-focused project called RGL, and will put out his first release at the start of February via Breaker Breaker Recordings. “S.U.G.A” is the first taste of it, and as advertised, it finds the producer really embracing the style, complete with understated piano line and vocal snippet. It slowly morphs throughout, RGL always maintaining a groove even as the kick punches through. Listen at Mixmag, who premiered it.
By releasing two stellar albums of easy-breezy but emotionally twisty electronic music in 2018, AOTQ reminds that you can come up with some really interesting ideas if you just keep exploring an approach that has worked before. The parts making up Alone aren’t all that different from what appeared earlier this year on E-muzak. It’s…
Shoegaze follows a pretty standard formula – go crazy with the guitars, to the point where the vocals get lost in the mix. Crystal Soda, like it’s namesake, attempts to change up the routine ever so slightly. But with much better results (R.I.P. Crystal Pepsi you were too good for this world). “Daybreak” features pretty…
This is something of a Japanese indie-pop power meeting. Osaka’s Post Modern Team, responsible for two of 2012’s best songs in “Heartbreak” and “Never Let You Down,” team up with Twangy Twangy, fronted by Dai Ogasawara who used to be in the Shibuya-kei outfit Candy Eyes, to release a split EP on one of the…
Even a little bit of new Pop-Office is better than no Pop-Office at all. “RGN” is a short but welcome blast from the Nagoya outfit, a fuzzy-around-the-edges rock number with vocals sung just underneath it all, in an uneasy monotone. It’s fast, but wastes no time in unloading everything it needs to and leaving you…
Instrumental math-rockers LITE have a new mini album set to come out on July 7, and the first song from this snack of an album has appeared online. “Image Game” features all the hallmarks of “angular” rock, almost excruciatingly timed perfectly. What saves “Image Game” from feeling like times table homework, though, are the more…
文化の中心は東京だと思われがちですが、関西も同様に栄えています。それでも大阪や京都の印象が強いですよね。ここ２年くらいその２つの場所ではダンス・ミュージックが盛り上がっていましたし。かつての首都であり、大仏や鹿が有名な奈良はどうでしょうか？良いアーティストを多数輩出しているものの、あまりダンス・ミュージックのイメージはありませんね。でもそんな奈良からも最近Sakasaというアーティストが出てきて、Coin Bender EPでは前向きなビートやノイズを奏でています。”Let your body dance, and let your brain dance more,” と説明されるこの三曲入りEPからは、名古屋のHouse Of Tapesとも共通点を感じます。どちらもメンタルとフィジカル両方に響くので。一曲目のタイトル・トラックなんかは特にそうで、歯医者のドリルみたいな身震いしそうな激しいノイズでビートが構築されています。”Pond”では逆に柔らかな印象。華やかなシンセのレイヤーが乗っているビートがこちらも徐々に重なっていきます。体を動かすにも世界観にも浸るにも適した美しい曲です。