New Towa Tei Video: “Alpha”
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7rMg-Xp60s”]
Towa Tei keeps things pretttttty simple here.
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7rMg-Xp60s”]
Towa Tei keeps things pretttttty simple here.
Despite releasing so much music over the past year, none of Taquwami’s music to this point has ever sounded particularly romantic. His tracks evoked feelings of wonder, warmth, peacefulness and all sorts of other emotions, but never seemed to touch on the ultimate song theme – love. He didn’t even reserve those for his Occult…
The Mirraz ““君の料理(レシピNo.2027)” [youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDDtW4JqJl0″] Another day, another new Mirraz track and video to digest. The latest continues in the same direction as last week’s single “Happy Ice Cream,” putting the band’s rapid-fire-talk-sing vocals against relatively simple albeit sweet music. It’s another strong song from the group, and it’s helping to make their new album On…
Sometime last night, Creative-Commons-loving net label Bad Panda Records posted a new song from Taquwami (also known as Occult You) called “Ƒắη†Δ§ỷ” (also known as “Fantasy” just in case Microsoft Word “Insert Symbol” isn’t a language you know). Accompanying the song is a brief interview with Taquwami himself that reveals info ranging from trivial (last…
Tozo’s music hovers somewhere in the same orbit as Boogie Idol and Pasocom Music Club’s output, shiny synth numbers riffing on the sounds of the past, but the more forgotten ones. Smoked Tongue came out last month, and puts the focus on Tozo’s composition skills, opening with the synth-wash boogie of the title track before…
One of the most exciting Japanese releases of June has arrived — producer Carpainter’s Out Of Resistance album is streaming over at SoundCloud, and you should definitely go take a listen. I mean, “Hydro Slap,” whoa, that’s some graceful liquid right there. Rounding it out, solid remixes from Pa’s Lam System, In The Blue Shirt…
It’s super tempting to call Tokyo artist ELEN NEVER SLEEPS “shoegaze,” mainly because dude offered the world a cover of My Bloody Valentine’s “When You Sleep.” [youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2OuzjMp4Ws”] ELEN NEVER SLEEPS certainly boasts characteristics of that sound, but even his take on the Loveless classic reveals something a bit more complex. There are traces of “hipster…