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.
Indie-pop artists aren’t necessarily expected to grow in their careers, at least not the ones adhering to the style first introduced in the mid 80s. Twee music, after all, is the domain of everlasting youth, a place where the troubles of the adult world get ignored for Indian summers and days spent thinking about crushes….
Will you happen to be deep in the heart of Texas next year for South By Southwest? I hate you, first off, but secondly there is yet another Japanese band for you to hunt down in Austin – Chatmonchy. That huge banner blocking the MySpace player controls tells you everything you need to know. I’m…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHpbmE3RPoE”] The video for Osaka musician Oorutaichi’s “Moeru Himitsu” features various crudely filmed scenes of everyday life edited together in nearly nonsensical order, creating a weird clip where ordinary shots of orange juice and chickens take on a slightly disturbing appearance. It’s kinda like that one Charlotte Gainsbourg video without all the quirky indie bullshit…
DJ LAKILAKI has, according to her MySpace profile, “love for Thaidisco,her tracks are filled with tropical flavors, but it still has Japanese oriental flavors to it.” This sorta of line drips with public relations sweat, the kind of mind-boggling prose a recent journalism school graduate cobbles together when they realize rent isn’t getting paid anytime…
Moscow Club’s official blog is a hodgepodge of English, Russian and Japanese (the latter being the language of their actual home country), an appropriate mix given their preference for the sort of indie-pop that transcends cultural barriers and goes straight for the heart instead. New track “Daisy Miller Pt. 1” further backs up this universal…
The Fader premiered this remix Hokkaido producer Qrion did of Skylar Spence’s “Affairs,” and it’s a good one! Qrion takes the skippy original and slows it down a bit, playing up a drama that was already present in the original (similar to what she’s done with How To Dress Well in the past). It’s a…