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.
All artists have the subjects they keep coming back to, the thing that pulls out some of their best work every time. For producer Yoshino Yoshikawa, that might be cats. The latest in his feline–leaning collection of songs, “Dancing Cats” switches things up ever slightly by not being as outright chime-rich as other songs he’s…
Well, not “new” as the above video has been kicking around since January, but I missed it so…new to these parts! Besides the trippy onslaught of colors in the video, the real headline of Osaka chiptuner 9 Letter’s “La Dance” is his decision to mix up his approach to 8-bit spazzin’ out. His trademark –…
Geez, I haven’t heard much from THE DIM camp in a long time. So long in fact these two tracks initially didn’t really phase me all that much…both “Game Hero” and “Rock’n Roll Baby” sound like serviceable albeit unmemorable rock numbers at first…until some part of my brain went “wait, something isn’t right here.” A…
Netlabel artists moving a little bit away from the wild Web-oriented styles of the late 2000s and embracing more familiar formats — often with vocalist alongside them — isn’t a 2018 development, but it feels more prevalent this year. Yuigot is the latest to give this team-up a try, working with singer Seana under the…
Spend time hanging out in message boards devoted to Western foreigners living in Japan…something I don’t really recommend by the way…and you’re bound to stumble across a few souls who declare how all music in Japan sucks. I mean…sure, we are all entitled to our opinions etc. etc…but that sort of attitude seem really ignorant,…
The recent focus on pop music going “international” via K-pop and Latin pop has resulted in an interesting tension in how these songs get interpreted. How important are lyrics to this? They obviously are central, and no doubt that’s part of the appeal to listeners who actually are fluent in these languages. But a big…