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.
Producer Amunoa impressed in 2015 by jumping to lightspeed — highlighted by the relentless “Viber,” Amunoa made fast music that pulled listeners along with it, rapid but rarely alienating. “SnapShot” offers a less manic side of Amunoa, leaving the face-melting BPMs behind in favor of something (especially for Amunoa) a bit more relaxed. Floating in…
Sorta Vaporwave/sorta City Pop/all fantastic idol unit Especia have a new album out in May, Gusto. The first taste of that full-length is “Foolish,” which you can listen to on Tumblr via a link below. This one is packed with horns courtesy of producer Schtein&Longer, the whole thing moving at a laid back pace but…
Tokyo indie-pop outfit has been making sunny, twisty songs for a while now, highlighted by the 2010 collection Golden Summer. It has been a bit since any new material from the group appeared online, but here comes the skip of “Heartbeat” to highlight what makes them jump out from an ever-crowded field. It features imperfect-but-endearing…
The music industry’s decade-long struggle to make money has led to all sorts of artists trying out new ways of packaging product so people shell out real currency instead of just typing “album title .rar” into Google. Sometimes you can “pay what you want,” other times you can get an MP3 download by buying a…
Sometimes, you spend a weekend focusing on non-music writing work, and all sorts of incredible stuff drops at once. The past few days have seen new albums from Toiret Status, CRZKNY and way more. Curse you, having to make money, if only I could blog all day! Slipping in a little before any of those…
Nazoyama Meisoun’s work on Mineral makes for a nervy, at times disorienting listen. The 11-song set highlights the producer’s approach to beats, but it is not a simple collection of skeletons begging for something more. “Quartz” rumbles ahead, adding in metallic sounds that seemingly lower on to the song (like…a docking bay from Star Wars?),…