Seiho posted this new song, “So Far,” yesterday, and it is definitely worth your time. It is the first track of his in a while not to feature some sort of mutated vocal sample – here, he just lets his electronics warp themselves around into a really colorful beat. Listen below.
Tokyo outfit LLLL released one of our favorite albums of 2014 with Paradice, released via American label Zoom Lens. Now, that imprint is planning to release a new remix album of Paradice on December 16 called Paradice: Revisited By Friends And Lovers. And Make Believe Melodies is excited to announce that we will be premiering…
Recently, I went to a music conference in Shibuya that was heavy on seminars focused on China. Turns out the Chinese market…it’s a big one, guys! Anyway, one of the presentations talked about how Japanese music can get over to China, and one of the most popular styles with listeners was listed as “indie pop…
I’m mainly used to Mikeneko Homeless singing about soba and asking for money, so forgive me for taking a second to catch up to them providing the production for a grooving, sentimental number. “Watermelon” finds them working with singer Lulu for a laid-back song, one tagged as “future sentimental” which is a nice little idea….
INNIT, the Osaka party/collective, will hold their one-year anniversary event on February 11 (as someone who went to the last one, I urge all Osaka-based readers to go, c’mon!), and in advance of that they have released an EP featuring tracks from the artists set to perform at the special show. The collection – available…
Netlabel Maltine Records has always taken cues from J-Pop, but in 2012 they seem to be hosting more and more music sounds like proper pop rather than simply inspired by it. The title track to Avec Avec’s Oshiete EP was one of his most streamlined tracks yet, while later in the year several Maltine artists…
印象IV : 東洋の神秘 (Mysterious Japanese Groove) by TOYOMU Kyoto producer Toyomu (stylized TOYOMU) had quite the April, huh? His imagined take on The Life Of Pablo got his name all over English-language media, resulting in…well, just so many posts about him, or interviewing him, or vaguely focused around him. Now comes his next set of…