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.
A relatively grim thought I had recently was — are there just not that many collectives of artists in Japan, hungry young creators simply out to prove how good they are? My initial cynical reaction was to say “they are all YouTube dorks now, talking about new soda offerings down at Family Mart and what…
[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…
Electronic music isn’t just having a big 2010, it’s undergoing a massive Sea Change on multiple fronts. I’ll save you the essay I could write about Flying Lotus and how Cosmogramma acts like some blippy wormhole into the most amazing dimension ever and just leave it at he probably made my favorite album of 2010,…
The world is still coping with the sudden passing of Prince last week, and plenty of artists have shared their own tributes to him over the last few days. Over the weekend, Seiho honored his “eternal star” by teaming up with New Jersey artist Ehiorobo to create a woozy cover of “Adore,” complete with mid…
Given how everything sounds vaguely tropical in 2017 — well, that or totally grey — it’s weird thinking back on how Osaka’s Soleil Soleil was so ahead of this trend. If he was outside Asia, he’d be Kygo! However, the Kansai artist is always a few steps ahead of the sounds clogging festival grounds, and…
Wow, two shoegaze-ish tracks in one week, savor this. What makes Shelling’s “Lake To Love” stand out is that it isn’t striving to sound pretty. Though, it does have moments of beauty – the female vocals, mainly, graze over this song just right, left untouched for the most part to add a touch of loveliness…