The Trekkie Trax gang have been keeping busy, and thankfully they made sure “releasing new songs onto SoundCloud” remained one of the collective’s mission. Seimei & Taimei’s “Orion” is a fizzy dance track, one that swerves through several high-energy passages, but is always lithe. Listen below.
If nothing else, this October is going to be good thanks to this project courtesy of Secret Songs. Everyday, the label will share a previously unheard song from Taquwami, one of our favorite artists of this decade. This has prompted some internal debate — does this blog just become a Taquwami landing page for a…
Pa’s Lam System has been one of the…if not the…best electronic producer in Japan for the last five years. The highlights are…pretty insane: “Bit By Bit,” “I’m Coming,” “Like A Lady,” this HyperJuice remix that caused me to spill coffee on my computer once. That nobody in Japan or abroad has gotten them to produce…
#20 Hikaru Utada Hatsukoi At their best, pop stars turn the personal into the populist — they make songs for everyone, not for themselves, even if the inspiration comes from inside. Hikaru Utada’s 2016 comeback album Fantome stands as one of the 2010s most fascinating album, wrestling with loss and maturity in a way few…
Starting today, we are starting a new monthly feature, where we highlight some of the music that somehow didn’t get attention during the prior month. A lot catches our attention, but for various reasons (mainly, me being sleepy) doesn’t get the attention it deserves. This new feature will hopefully at least put a tiny light…
Ryan Hemsworth has done great work giving attention…like, big publication space…to under-the-radar Japanese artists, whether he’s collaborating with them (Qrion, Tomggg) or just shouting them out (Seiho, Taquwami). His Secret Songs label just released a mix featuring a bunch of great music, all worth checking out…Kero Kero Bonito!…but for now we’ll focus on two tracks…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfgB3bX0sLg&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=fr_FR&feature=player_embedded&fs=1] Two of Japan’s best musicians got a chance to shine on one of the Internet’s best live-music shows this week. La Blogotheque’s genius “A Take Away Show,” where bands perform stripped-down songs usually in public places, featured Shugo Tokumaru and Tenniscoats performing in the streets of Tokyo. Tokumaru, who managed to sneak a new…