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….
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…
Inspired by a loosely porn-themed mix shared as a Dress Down Monthly Mix, producer Cool Japan…who shares a lot of demos!…created the just-over-seven-minutes-long “Do My Mind.” It starts as a slightly disjointed house track until it morphs into a full formed, shimmering house number where the odd little touches — an off-pitch vocal sample, an…
Title doesn’t lie! Due to the repetitive and quick-hit nature of the whole style, juke can be quite a nervy listening experience. But DJ Cheap really takes it to the extreme on Anxious Footworks, which uses some vocal samples of people practically yelling at you to really get the hairs on your arm to stand…
Hashtags in album titles? What a world, I tell ya. Via Trekkie Trax, the trio of Blacklolita, Oshirijima and Ryuki Miyamoto have teamed up for #LΛNCHR, a high-energy set that starts off with each contributor sharing a solo number. Those veer towards the uptempo sort of track one would expect from a Trekkie Trax release,…
Listening to De De Mouse in 2015 is slightly jarring, because you realize how ahead of the curve he was with his brand of electronic music. And then you listen to his “Satan Disco 999,” a new song from the soon-to-be-released Youth 99 EP, and it sounds very much appropriate for 2015 — finicky electronics,…
In which PLASTIC GIRL IN CLOSET score the iconic scene from American Beauty where some people watch a plastic bag blowing in around before calling it “life affirming” or something something. I mean, this COULD score such a mundane happening – the genres called shoegaze afterall, named after the literal fact people would just stare…