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.
10. The Mornings Save The Mornings The past year saw a lot of Japanese bands trying to fill one of two molds – some groups tried to capture youthful exuberance via a lot of yelping in an effort to be like early Los Campesinos!, while another batch tried fast-talking over math-ey guitar patterns like they…
Whoa, this blog has seen a spike in visitors over the last day! I mean, a spike for a site this tiny means 30 views, but I’m still excited by it, even if it’s just a bunch of stray folks who searched for “chiptune” and ended up here (sorry). So, since slightly more people may…
Not to play the “midyear report” card too soon, but Suiyoubi No Campanella’s Superman remains near the top of my personal list. It’s an album where one person’s character — in this case, KOM_I — shines through and illuminates the project wholly, a nice flip of how this usually goes in J-Pop (the producer making…
Sometimes Nagoya’s House Of Tapes uncovers melodic beauty in pummeling noise…and sometimes he zooms off into more discombobulated terrain, where the pretty elements only pop up in split-seconds. “Rusty Pop Noise” most certainly falls in the latter, as it is a jarring collection of piano notes and barbed synth, prone to sudden tempo changes and…
To take you into the weekend, here is a new Love And Hates remix. The Pixie Stick snorting duo work their twee-club magic on Desmond & The Tutus’ “Peter.” They take the power pop of the original and absolutely gut it, turning the track into a goofy quasi-rap joint complete with the Love And Hates…
Over the past year, Kool Switch Works’ Delicious Beats 4 Sale! series has been giving space for artists both frequently present in the country’s footwork and ghettotech communities, and those often working outside of it, a chance to share new tracks. It hasn’t been just limited to those styles, as they’ve also given artists such…