先週東京のデュオ、She talks Silenceが新曲”Walk Away”をSoundCloudで発表しました。Minami Yamaguchiは短いイントロの中で”walk away now”の持つ意味を明確にし、そこから速いテンポで短い３分間程度ギターをかき鳴らしていきます。”I know you’ll hate me”という印象的なフレーズが象徴するように、後ろを振り向かずに前へ前へと進みたい気持ちと共に疾走する美しい曲です。試聴は以下から。
First there was a duo called Colorado Coronado, who seemed to fawn at the recorded output of Bradford Cox (Deerhunter/Atlas Sound) and set out to replicate it live, resulting in a few fantastic songs. At some point, their sound shifted from the ponderous to the ramshackle, as Colorado Coronado seemed to switch idols from Cox…
CUZ ME PAINは最近、あまりリリースをせず、ライブやレコーディングに力を入れている感じがします。それともニコラス・ケイジ出演の映画を勉強したりしてるのかな。CUZ ME PAINのプロジェクトMasculinの新曲、”Manhattan Suicide”は、ニコラス・ケイジ主演のデビッド・リンチ映画、ワイルド・アット・ハートの台詞から始まります。２分間シンプルに淡々と流れるグルーブは、リンチ・テイストが他の曲よりは抑えめかも。ワイルド・アット・ハートからの物かは確かじゃないですが、他の台詞とピアノの流れるようなフレーズがリピートされています。そのようなサウンドが楽しい雰囲気を出していて、ツイン・ピークス的か、と言えばそうではないのですが、このような遊び心のあるリリースを聴く事で、CUZ ME PAINから更なるリリースを期待してしまいます。 MANHATTAN SUICIDE by MASCULIN
Dude releases tons of new material all the time but…I don’t remember Osaka’s Soleil Soleil sounding this crisp before. “Sun” sounds clearer than most of songs this producer has made before, the synths shimmering and the percussion clanking clearly, to the point that this actually sounds a lot like neighbor-to-the-north Madegg. It’s a bit more…
New month, new MAP! Go on to see who we chose this month, and to hear a bunch of other great tunes from all over the globe. Click the play button icon to listen to individual songs, right-click on the song title to download an mp3, or grab a zip file of the full 29-track…
YMCK, like fellow Japanese artists Omodaka and the older material of 99 Letters, pulls off a rare thing – being able to make music based primarily around 8-bit sounds and turning it into something beyond novelty. “Sesetsu Shite Usetsu Shite” could be goofy novelty in the hands of someone more interested in playing Mega Man…
東京のプロデューサーTaquwamiは、ネットのシーンに属している、と先月話してくれました。「僕自身は東京、というか特定の地域のシーンとは繋がってないんじゃないでしょうか。どちらかと言うと地域関係なくインターネット上でって感じじゃないかなーと。なんていうかChillwaveよりはBeat重視でWitch House/Trap/Hiphop全部突っ込んだみたいななんともいえないくくりのelectronic musicがインターネットであるじゃないですか。」Taquwamiが今までコラボレートしてきたアーティスト達も、彼同様の環境で音楽を配信しています。たとえ違う国に住んでいても、そこで交流し、繋がれるのが最高の利点。最近ではヴァージニア州を拠点としているRuddypと共同で”Hold”をリリースしています。Blurrywonderで聴けるようなドラムパターンやボーカルが使われているものの、”Hold” はそのEPよりも極めてゆったりとしたペースで進みます。以前もそのようなテンポの曲はありましたが、Ruddypのテイストが加わる事により、Taquwamiの楽曲とはまた違った面白さが引き出されています。視聴は以下から。
Last week, Tokyo duo She Talks Silence posted a new song called “Walk Away” to their SoundCloud. It’s more like a gallop – after a minimal intro where Minami Yamaguchi sets the scene and makes her intention to “walk away now” clear, STS launches into a fast-paced guitar passage that lasts for the majority of the song’s just-over-three-minute playtime. “I know you’ll hate me,” Yamaguchi sings at one point, and from there “Walk Away” sounds like a dash forward, one that refuses to look back towards whatever it is it wants to avoid. Listen below.
Producer Karen Felixx wastes no time messing with one’s head. The Scarlet EP comes after a pretty solid year from her, where she used pounding at at times haywire sounds to create some wonderfully jarring electronic music. On her latest, opener “Jasmine Jam” teases something relatively straightforward, before feedback creeps in and everything slows to…
With the end of the decade approaching fast, reflecting back has been taking up a lot of time in my noggin over the last month. Part of that has been trying to sort where netlabels such as Maltine Records fall in the “narrative” of “the decade,” but then said online imprint comes through with a…
Tanukineiri has been one of the strongest netlabels in the game over the past couple of years, and one of their earliest highlights was Tanukineiri Drink Sampler, a beverage-themed release highlighting a wide array of fantastic artists from both the acoustic and electronic side of the fence. The label’s 60th release…dudes put out music at…
Plenty of groups over Japan take cues from the current wave of British rockers clogging up the NME, but NONONO finds an excellent way of standing out besides having a name like NONONO. See, this trio figured out the best way to grab attention from the other English-aping acts was to not really sound like…
November might be a week away, but producer Idiot Pop is reflecting on the warmer months with the just-released Our Summer EP. The title track hits on all the familiar notes a summer-centric song released in mid Autumn should — it’s bouncy, but the vocals (especially the hook by Shingo Maeda of shoegaze band Birds…
The latest from Mom serves as a celebration of summer, even in all of the bad parts of the season. Mainly, the heat, which is at record highs this year across the country. Mom actually nods to this during “Natsu No Mahou ’18” but doesn’t let the record-breaking temperatures get them down, as they deliver…