Look, I’m watching the second half of this Japan-Colombia World Cup game and it is stupid stressful, here is a new song from Osaka’s Soleil Soleil, it’s good. Back to sitting all scrunched up like seeing if Japan can score two goals….
Well this was a fun one. I talked to the fine folks of CUZ ME PAIN…including NITES/Jesse Ruins, the Faron Square dudes and AAPS…and the recently-relocated-to-Tokyo Friends for The Japan Times for an article about bedroom artists in Japan. The article comes complete with a mix that CUZ ME PAIN put together just for the…
In The Blue Shirt’s speciality is digging into the DNA of existing songs and modifying them into something entirely new and totally dizzying. “Cast Off” revisits this formula ahead of a new album, and reminds just how effective it is. ITBS splices up some vocal samples from a song (or songs) I can’t put my…
Well this was a nice Google surprise. While researching bands (“research” meaning “clicking random pages on MySpace and hoping for the best”), I ended up finding this incredibly useful guide to live houses in Osaka. This revealed about ten new venues to see shows, and I am eternally grateful to whoever created this page. A…
Sometimes words fail completely. Weirdo high-art-maybe duo HUH have always made songs bordering on disorganized clatter, so “From Mysterious Yoyogi” isn’t exactly a twist. It’s…interesting, and definitely a nice change of pace from indie-rock/electro dance. If your kitchen could come to life and immediately convulse while letting out a low-pitch shriek, it would be reminiscent…
Niigata’s Yu-chi writes that he’s an “ordinary farmer” on his SoundCloud, and also adds that all of the music he shares (stretching back to 2012) is made simply as his hobby. His latest, Escapism is…well, just that, a collection featuring muted songs, moments of disorienting detail and like uhhhh MIDI-assisted jazz (“Black Cat Swing”). The…
Not be outdone by the likes of Osaka and Fukuoka (and don’t even get them started on Tokyo, ya know), the electronic music community up in ever-cool Sapporo have come together to further remind the world that, yes, they are around and kicking. The largest city in Hokkaido boasts plenty of great artists, and now…