New Towa Tei Video: “Alpha”
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Towa Tei keeps things pretttttty simple here.
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Towa Tei keeps things pretttttty simple here.
Oyubi flexes a bit of range on newest song “Dark Bedroom.” The young producer has earned a lot of looks thanks to their take on Chicago-born juke music in the last couple of years, but for this post-midnight number they jump across the pond and take cues from British 2-step. “Dark Bedroom” drifts between intimidating…
Oh garage rock, never go out of style. Japan’s The Let’s Go’s do what a ton of other bands armed with guitars and cheap recording equipment do – make irreverent Nuggets era rock ‘n’ roll. No major musical push forward, but The Let’s Go’s make great, shimmy-worthy cuts. “Dance Number” stands out as some sort…
Norwegian artist Henrik The Artist recently shared the buoyant “Peddi Max,” and then got a bunch of pals to remix the colorful hopper. The whole list premiered at Nest HQ, but we will focus on — as you’d expect — the four Japanese producers who put their spin on the track. It’s a netlabel-centric crew,…
An appropriately big couple of months coming up for Big Love Records. They’ve got a new release coming soon from Aya Gloomy, and they also have new artist Anna, whose “Electric Dreams” is very sparse and very simple. A very simple melody, accented only by some faint synths and a few trippy wooshes, which allows…
Once upon a time, you could just tag this sort of bedroom pop as “chillwave” and move on. Alas, those simple-categorization days are gone, and now the sort of music Aichi prefecture’s Lilacs makes sort of floats around in a vaguely-defined pool possibly labeled “indie rock.” The “sounds like” highlights the style well – Lilacs…
This one’s billed as a single, but RGL’s Machine Love plays out like one large journey. The total playtime of these three tracks certainly helps with that feeling, as the latest from the Tokyo producer comes in at around 18 minutes. Just as crucial, though, is how this trio of tracks plays off of one…