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….
Second Royal Records really has flipped for beach-ready music. The latest sorta-chillwave artist to find sanctuary at the Kyoto label is Subtle Control, who appears on the forthcoming Second Royal Vol. 6 compilation with his song…and his only one at the moment…”Too Young.” It features the same stretched out guitar notes that have become synonymous…
Didn’t White Scooper hear, Inception’s the new Sci-Fi buzz film! Bah-duh deeesh! Sorry, I’ll show myself out, but not before writing a little about this demo. Various vocal samples that sound like they were taken from news broadcasts sit at the center of “Matrix,” some unknown lady talking about “Matrix films” while also mentioning murder…
Ano(t)raks is growing up a bit. The indie-pop focused netlabel has seen its profile rise in recent years, and has been moving into a more physical direction as of late. To cement this, they’ve more or less split the Ano(t)raks brand in two — one side focusing on physical releases, while the newly minted +Ano(t)raks…
Nothing says “Friday afternoon vibes” like some hair-raising, industrial-tinged electronic music. Cemetery excels at this, and he has an album coming out via Sacred Phrases in May. “Riffs” is a preview of what to expect, and it turns out the producer is dabbling in slow-burning, slowly building in force electronic music with all sorts of…
Man, these guys just pump out songs. “Ghost Dance” is the latest bit of indie-rockin’ goodness courtesy of Moscow Club, this track moving away from the tropical shores of other recent releases and instead embracing meat-and-potatoes guitar rock with a good heaping of feedback also mixed in for good measure. I’m running out of ways…
After a whirlwind trip to Bangkok (the fruit of which can be seen here), I’m finally back and sorta rested in Tokyo. As usual, lots of great songs appeared online while I was busy wandering the streets of Thailand’s capital, and here are a handful of them. – Yesterday Once More continues to shine, with…