I’m trying to finish (errrrrr, start) the official Make Believe Melodie’s “our favorite songs” feature, so in the meantime, enjoy this new song courtesy of Osaka’s Seiho. “Clipping Music” starts off quite sensual – some lovely, lounge-ready electronics playing over the sound of waves reaching the shore – but soon enters territory we are more used to from Seiho, albeit with a rapid stream of hand-clap noises this time around. Listen below.
Eric LuebsによるMagical Mistakesが、最近リリースしたフルレングス作品、”Everything Uncertain”で、ダンスとサイケデリックの境界線をぶち破ってくれました。ビートミュージックからの影響だけではあり得ない奇妙で個性的なサウンドは、不思議な魅力で聴き手を誘惑します。最近早くも新曲、”Always At The Best Part”をSoundCloudで公開しているのですが、先程紹介した作品とは全く違う印象。彼のFacebookによると、結構前から手掛けていたみたいなのですが。ボサノバ調なこの曲はふわっとした空気感をバックに持ちつつも、ギターやビブラフォンのソロが暖かさを加えています。”A groovy one for swaying with drinks in hand”とは彼の解説で、その通り、飲みながらゆったり聴きたい曲に仕上がっています。試聴は以下から。
Osaka’s Outdoorminer (also known as Cloudy Busey) has proven over the last few years he’s great at creating unsettling, late-night moods. Between his two solo projects, he’s excelled at making music for downtrodden walks home, whether they be complete with vocals or, as is the case with the Outdoorminer alias, just music. “Badmood” follows up…
One of my grand theories…the sort you start scribbling notes on in Tumblr before being like “nah, gotta develop this a bit more” before hitting the big ol’ “X” in the corner…is that Yasutaka Nakata is secretly one of the major influences of contemporary EDM. One day, I’ll actually write that, but for now we…
New month, new MAP! This month, our Japanese pick hails from Tochigi prefecture….bedroom producer Hisamokuden-kow and his disjointed pop number “Our Song.” Enjoy that and more than two dozen other songs below. Click the play button icon to listen to individual songs, right-click on the song title to download an mp3, or grab a zip…
Timothy Work covers a lot of ground in just four songs on their self-titled debut EP that dropped back in the summer. Which actually makes it surprisingly easy to overlook – 2012 saw all sorts of acts treating genre cornerstones as something meant to be thrown around, acts like Moscow Club touching on fragile indie-pop…
全く予想していなかった事が起きました…東京のCanopies And Drapesがヒップ・ホップに挑戦したみたいです。最近できた新しい音楽ブログ、Lights + Music（見てね！）が最近インタビューしたのですが、”Chocolate Song” という新曲にはなんとゲストとして、オノマトペ大臣が参加しています。Canopies And Drapesの可愛らしくドリーミーなサウンドはそのままに、ラップ・ビートを使って、オノマトペ大臣がその上にラップできるように作られています。でも正直言うと、Canopies And Drapesの曲をバックグラウンドに使う場合、ラップよりも歌もののほうがマッチする気はします。一番印象的だったディテールはというと、Canopies And Drapesが数回 “Lay yourself beside me”と歌うところで、Weekendの影響かな？と思いました。この可愛らしいディテールが、彼女のタレントを改めて感じさせてくれます。
今必死にMake Believe Melodieの2012年ベストソングリストを終わらせようとしてます（というか始めようとしてます…）。なので今は大阪のアーティスト、Seihoの新曲をお楽しみ下さい。曲はレイドバックで穏やかな気持ちにさせてくれるエレクトロ・サウンドと波打ち際の音から始まります。そこから我々の知っているいつものSeihoサウンドに突入するのですが、ノイズのような手拍子が軽快で魅力的です。試聴は以下から。
In an effort to reflect the dominant trends in Japanese indie music, we chose Osaka indie-pop outfit Wallflower to appear in the May 2012 edition of the Music Alliance Pact. There “Cure Your Heart” is one of the peppiest songs with twee DNA to pop out of the country this year…and there have been many….
Osaka producer Nite Body erased almost all of their previous digital footprint, meaning the handful of EPs the smooth, tropical-tinged track maker have vanished from the web forever (for now). Thankfully, Nite Body as a whole isn’t gone, with the shimmering aqua-ambient of “Waters Of Rauresia” coming at just the right time to eliminate any…
Two weeks ago, an event called Jersey Fight Club happened at the Tokyo club Batica, featuring a handful of DJs playing nothing but Jersey Club music. I didn’t make it out because it happened on the same weekend I went on a vacation to the countryside (relaxing!), but even from a distance it seemed like…
Sweet, sweet Kansai-region indie-pop disco strut. Courtesy of Post Modern Team, who remain one of the better twee-leaning acts in the country at crafting really catchy music…the sort that sneaks into your head and refuses to leave. “Listen In The Time” could probably drop the guitar solo, but it does make a nice breather between…
One of the key components of producer mus.hiba’s music these last few years have been digital voices, created using a freeware version of signing-synthesizer program Vocaloid called UTAU that generated the vocals on many of his tracks. Yet for his new song “Ginkgo,” he’s decided to bring a dash of real humanity to his slowly…
Time for a catch-up post to kick off the week, here are some good songs from the last few days worth your time! – Itadaqi is a new electro-pop project in Tokyo, and I am pretty sure that Chick of Canopies And Drapes handles the lead vocals on their first song “Taikutsu No Heya.” Well,…