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….
Though the furthest physical distance I often travel while writing is to the refrigerator to grab a Kraft Single to nibble on (the life of a blogger!), I do take on all sorts of endless journeys across the Internet, specifically the wasteland known as MySpace, in order to find exciting Japanese music. For the most…
Every element of Sea Level’s “Race Against the Drum Machine” feels stitched together into a really jarring patchwork. The group, split between Fukuoka and Tokyo, recently put out their debut full-length on Call And Response (get that here), and this advance peek stands as one of the more wobbly — and fun in its unsteadiness…
Here’s a pleasant one for Monday midday — producer LASTorder has a new album out on November 13, and the reflective “Painter’s Novel” offers a first glance of what to expect. The music itself is softer and more worried about backing up guest vocalists Natsuko Yanagimoto, who delivers refined vocals that wrap around the music…
Something tells me the “common people” wouldn’t react well to this. For the rest of us who arrogantly think we’re better than the unwashed masses, though, this might sound pretty nifty! EeL’s latest could easily be filed as “techrock” though it might be better summarized as “head-blitzing tropical noise.” “For Common People” might soften the…
You don’t really need a reason to close out Sunday night with a big, ecstatic track…Monday morning looms near by, waving at you sarcastically as it prepares to just make you feel miserable when you get close enough…but this Sunday, of all Sundays, officially marks the end of Golden Week (“Golden Week” is more like…
Cuteness can be as overpowering as any other feeling around, and few Japanese electronic producers understand that like Yoshino Yoshikawa. His sugar-blasted work takes cuddliness to its logical endpoint, without a hint of irony, resulting in music dripping with sweetness but never tipping over to sickliness. “Inventions And Cuties” is a relatively simple number —…