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.
Early on in 2018, Japanese bands have been having a good go of it internationally. This mainly comes via festivals and festivals that are part of gatherings that are really giant tech gabfests. The biggest name would be X Japan, set to appear at Coachella (same font size Django Django, congrats Yoshiki), yet the real…
Covering an electronic dance track as a rock band? Risky on a whole bunch of levels. Covering THE electronic dance track of the Oughts as a rock band? Yikes. Yet somehow, Throwcurve have managed to take Daft Punk’s triumphant “One More Time” and give a very inspired take on it. A large chunk of the…
It’s here, the October edition of the Music Alliance Pact! Hopefully you know the drill by now but if not…more than 30 blogs from around the world, sharing songs from their representative country. For Japan, the spotlight falls on The Somedays and their lovely digi-glazed “Remember Me.” Listen to it…and more…below. Click the play button…
Let’s just lay this one out in text first — combining Avex artists FAKY, Yup’in and FEMM into one special unit should result in something totally average given the pedigree of the individual acts involved. FAKY and Yup’in have had their moments, but overall neither artist is the sort you get worked up about in…
I’m all for un-Googleable band names, from Women to Girls to Spoon. But boy, trying to find a band when they have a super general name and also happen to be in Japan…near impossible. Case in point: I’ve been trying to find Osaka trio Wednesday online ever since I saw their live set at the…
On last year’s Dream You Up, producer De De Mouse embraced modern music and gave into the pleasures of pop like he teleported back to 2007. His latest release be yourself only builds on that ecstatic release, layering synths and vocal slices on top of one another to create a full-length that doesn’t feature any…