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.
(First off, I tend to avoid fixating too much on music videos…but I think the videos that come with Metoronori’s songs do an incredible job of matching sound to image. Her music is like creating a world that sounds familiar, but ultimately is just a bit off. Clips like this one excel at recreating that…
Well now here’s a twist…a Local Visions’ release that actually reminds me more of today than yesterday (viewed through a really gnarly kaleidoscope). Utsuro Spark is a duo featuring a female vocalist and lyricist backed-up by a producer. This is the type of group becoming more and more common in Japanese electronic music, and Static…
Japan’s first lady and intergalactic traveler Miyuki Hatoyama recently sang “Happy Birthday” as part of UNICEF’s Happy Birthday project. It’s for an excellent cause, so check out the site and give Hatoyama’s version a go. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9sN6mXwFWY&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1] (Via Japan Probe)
(This one has an official video, but it won’t play outside of Japan…where I am now. So this is how you guys feel all the time, huh?) Tokyo indie-pop band For Tracy Hyde have tightened up over the years. Initially a vessel for Sarah Records-indebted guitar chug mixed with experiments in chillwave, the group now…
Tokyo’s Neon Cloud has been labeled as “witch house” and the sorta info-lacking project’s first EP Knit forgoes proper song titles in favor of symbols that have my “contorl C” fingers working overtime. Yet since I know next to nothing about that sub-genre and came dangerously close to failing geometry in high school, let’s instead…
Remember the city pop revival? That buzzed about thing from the first half of the year? Perhaps the latter half of 2016’s sudden shift to ’90s reflection jarred you out of those smooth sounds, but regardless of how many weeks Fantome sits on top of the Oricon Charts (a lot!), the bands from that boom…