This bubbly beat comes courtesy of Tokyo’s Yuichi Nagao, and it is a nice bleep-blooper full of bouncy details (the way those synths intersect with one another! how hopeful this sounds!) and just a fun little groover. Listen below.
“Multiverse” finds the usually frantic Parkgolf slowing down considerably. This just-under-five-minute number finds the producer trying out something close to new age music, as this number doesn’t so much build as it recedes in and out, bringing in new pieces every once in awhile. I’m not sure Parkgolf should drop the high-speed format in favor…
Usually when I see “new HNC,” I go in expecting a twee-tastic rush of bells, break beats and maybe a cat sound or two. Her latest song “I Dream I Dead”…snuffs out any cuteness in favor of pure claustrophobia. Despite the dreamy opening, “I Dream” quickly surrounds the listener with a wall of noise and…
This year, Kansai rock group NOKIES! released their debut full-length album Between The Blinks through Flake Records and Tower Records. Prior to 2012, the band had mostly played jittery indie-pop in the mold of Los Campesinos!, but with Blinks they laid off the caffeine and stuck to their prescription – probably owing to its placement…
After spending two days at an EDM festival, it seems fitting to feature a song from producer Miii loaded up with crushing bass whirlwinds and a lot of electronic tension. When I hear that style of drop, I’m sometimes tempted to dismiss it as being too predictable, too commonplace in electronic music…but then I actually…
In one of those cruel-not-really-cruel moments a music fan faces more than they’d like, I discovered LSD March were playing in Osaka last night only, oh, four hours before the show. Though I flirted with the idea of throwing all my responsibilities to the side for the night, I chose to be responsible and miss…
Before we get to this song…can we talk a bit more about tengal6? They are the six-piece rap-pop group sponsored by Tenga, a company making male-masturbation products. It is gross and weird. Yet they also managed to pull in some amazing producers to make beats for them – like Fragment and, especially relevant for this…