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.
“Unnerving” isn’t quite the right words to describe “Over My Dead Body.” It comes close — and boy, do we love using that one whenever we can — but AAAMYYY’s latest ahead of her debut album Body does much more than just make us feel slightly uneasy while looking at the computer screen. While the…
This marks the second release in the span of the month out of Japan that builds around samples from Pac-Man. One more and we got us a trend! Omoide Label tends to release music that is pure comfort for me personally, the type of stuff that goes down like convenience store desserts after a long…
Here are my top three blogging dilemmas (if things so ultimately trivial warrant that title): 1. Should albums and singles released via Apple Music or other streaming services get on here? 2. Do I write about Japanese artists who have moved to other countries? 3. Are demo tracks ever worth writing about? That last one…
Fuishoo is a producer benefitting from the current status of netlabels in Japan. While this corner of Japanese music doesn’t feel quite as thrilling as it once did — mostly as the bigger players grow and become different entities (or focus on different projects entirely — 2018 has seen a greater emphasis on nurturing young…
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…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4cDnjt88_8″] A more cynical person would hear that Cornelius offered up the music for a new Muji company commercial and say “what a sellout.” Thankfully its 2010 and the concept of selling out via ad opportunities went away long ago unless you are in high school or something, but to this imaginary naysayer I raise…