Kawaii-leaning producer Snail’s House has a new EP out in February, and has shared a preview via the chirpy 8-bit bouncer “Pixel Galaxy.” Over the past year, Snail’s House has been exploring new terrain with his sound, but this comes off more like a bit of his go-to style run through a Game Boy Color. “Pixel Galaxy” pogos forward, bordered by a few hyper-bright samples and moments where preferred game soundtracks sneak through. Like Kirby. Listen above.
Think of this as more an advisory than a usual “yapping about a release” post. The latest release from Tokyo’s Emamouse is maybe their best yet, featuring both some of their loopiest melody runs to date alongside an absolute epic in the album closer. I’ll have more on this one later in the week (look…
Holding just enough back can go a long way. Producer Kotonohouse certainly brings plenty of energy across their new EP But You Don’t, using slivers of vocal samples and quick changes in tempo to create a mood that practically forces you to move just to keep up. But what makes the four song set stick…
Note: We take a break from our songs list to give out some more awards that might make you pissed. Pity Auto-Tune. The pitch-correcting software became pop music’s boogeyman sometime late in the 2000s, joining “they don’t play instruments” and “all they do is rap about guns and women” as easy ways to avoid talking…
The latest from Nagoya’s Masahiro Araki a.k.a Fredricson, of folk-pop outfit Remigai, is a bouncy electronic number seemingly borrowing ideas from beat making, but arranging them into a lively and squiggly form that requires no vocalist. Guitar strings and pitch-mutating vocal samples intertwine out the gate, before some brighter electronic sounds hop their way and…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5ocpERse14″] Kinda a mixed bag here. STAR GUiTAR (aside: when did that “i” get lowercased?) sound fine, laying down a pulsing club beat that isn’t particularly complex but definitely serves its function. Alone, the music would pass for OK club stuff. Problem comes with the vocals courtesy of CICO. The shouts of “tonight” in the…
At long last, Taquwami is back with a proper song. “Cinderella” is a rapid-fire number full of alien voices turned into sonic laser beams, a high-energy affair that pops off in all sorts of directions all at once. There are many producers doing this sort of hyperactive sound now – but Taquwami’s been at it…