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.
There’s still time to add some soil-covered gems to your 2019 music library, and one of the year’s better albums to be mostly overlooked — including by this blog! — comes from Tokyo quartet Spool. Their self-titled full-length from this February hits a sweet spot between two music communities that carry on strong in Japan,…
One of the key components of producer mus.hiba’s music these last few years have been digital voices, created using a freeware version of signing-synthesizer program Vocaloid called UTAU that generated the vocals on many of his tracks. Yet for his new song “Ginkgo,” he’s decided to bring a dash of real humanity to his slowly…
Wasabi Tapes have been at the forefront of Japanese artists exploring and embracing the wonder of sound, from the high-definition collage blitz of DJWWWW and Toiret Status to the hypnotic affects of pachinko. Their latest offering comes from a project called Nikkei — aiming for my journalistic side — and finds them more directly approaching…
Osaka’s The Paellas’ best releases this year have been able to strike a good balance between noise and silence. See the lovely side-swaying “Lights,” which found the group using vast amounts of space to build up tension for the big mid-song release, one of the better moments in Japanese indie rock this year. Now along…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBcrQ8-GvF0″] Creepy black and white! Weird images! Random words flashing on screen! Plus explosions! See it above in the new Molice video.
“Just Wanna Feel”のビデオ・ティザー。上のイメージをクリックしてご覧下さい。東京のSapphire Slowsを中心に構成されていますね。昨年までのミステリアスな印象からはうってかわり、彼女はフレームの真ん中でカメラを見つめています。カメラから逃げ隠れするような”Animal Dreams”のビデオからは長い道のりでした。 曲自体も、ビデオほどではないものの、進化しています。この曲はロサンゼルスを拠点に活動する、同じ100% Silkのアーティスト、Magic Touchとのコラボレーションです。彼はハウスを得意としているので、”Just Wanna Feel” もそんな彼の飛び跳ねるようなMagic Touchスタイルが５分半程堪能できます。が、その上でSlowsが美しいハウス・ディーバとして歌うと斬新な印象に。彼女のボーカルはソロの作品より抜けが良く、デジタルな切りを突き破っています。このようにオープンに表現するSapphire Slowsも魅力的です。試聴は以下から。