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.
Post Modern Team could play this trick, one a lot of indie-pop bands are capable of but which happened to be one the Osaka group did better than most in Japan. From the opening notes of career-highlight “Never Let You Down” and onward, they could make even the hint of wistfulness sound happy, especially when…
In which OMEGABOY hits on my ultimate sonic pleasure – sounding like the battle music that plays during the fight segments in the video game Earthbound. There is more going on in “Parallel Dance” than just Super Nintendo days – it’s one of the more claustrophobic tracks the Osaka producer has created yet, every sound…
Like a lot of projects in recent memory consisting of young women performing music written by someone else in Japan, Hamidasystem don’t bill themselves as idols even if everything about them is pretty idol-ish. Ultimately, that label is more important for a bunch of other matters — perception by fans and media, mostly — but…
There’s a delicate dance going on “Wanna Be Your Idol.” Lil Demotape — the team of Valknee and Ryopichi — isn’t an idol project exactly, seeing as those involved lean closer to rap than anything else. Yet “Wanna Be Your Idol” embraces the cheery pace of idol pop, if not quite adhering to that corner…
So this week is probably going to be brutal, and posting is probably going to be a bit less than usual as I try to put a lot of things to bed. But I still want to do some quick hit posts daily, even if they aren’t much more than “hey, that song above? Listen…
At what point does something become “noise” music? Nagasaki’s Friend Of Trip toes the line super close, a few mumbled vocals and persistent drums offering up the defense. The group describes there sound as “anti-pop noise,” which would certainly help make the case for the noise tag, before imploring us listeners to “feel us trip.”…