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New Towa Tei Video: “Alpha”

ByPatrick St. Michel July 19, 2011

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Towa Tei keeps things pretttttty simple here.

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New Tofubeats: “Shopping Mall”
ByPatrick St. Michel October 24, 2016

Between major label releases, tofubeats tends to explore sounds that might not be the sort of thing to make it on his major-label albums. In the year since Positive, he’s been getting deeper into house — with a pretty fantastic house set at this year’s Maltine event at WWW X — while “Shopping Mall” gives…

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New TOMC: “Bake The House”
ByPatrick St. Michel September 25, 2018

Sometimes simply getting completely lost inside a song is all you really need. TOMC’s “Bake The House” ostensibly plays out like a dance track, with a shuffling beat guiding everything forward, but nobody would blame you if you missed it because of all the stuff stewing on top of it. Disoriented noises, dislocated human voices…

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The Rio Deal: Spangle Call Lilli Line’s “Roam In Octave,” “Rio,” “Rio The Other” And “For Rio”
ByPatrick St. Michel November 21, 2011

Many members of the media and probably a fair amount of your parents have spent time lamenting how the world of today has warped people’s attention spans down to something that can barely get through a 140-character sentence. Whether that’s true or just typical “back in MY day” bluster from older generations can’t really be…

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Make Believe Melodies’ Best Japanese Albums 2016: Honorable Mentions And Notable Releases
ByPatrick St. Michel December 20, 2016

Half of this entry should be relatively self-explanatory — these are albums that, for various reasons, just missed our final cut. All of them are worth your listening time, and them falling just outside of the top 30 really shows just how much good music came out of Japan. The other, though, is a bit…

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Nocturnal Delight: Nite Body
ByPatrick St. Michel October 27, 2015

Synth-powered funk has been popular in Japan’s indie scene for — well, potentially since the ’80s ended for all I know, it feels like there are always a few groups embracing the neon-boogie sounds of that decade. It’s a tricky one to do right, as it can turn cheesy fast in the wrong hands. Nite…

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Best Song On The Worst Album Award 2011: KARA’s “Only For You”
ByPatrick St. Michel January 11, 2012

Man, Super Girl really did end up being the worst-case scenario for KARA. Whether because they wanted to spike sales even more or just because they have absolutely no idea how to embrace something that doesn’t sound like the year 1993, the J-Pop powers-that-be pigeonholed one of Korea’s hottest exports into the bland box of…

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