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.
Wonky future-garage producer Carpainter has a new two-song EP out on L25 Recordings, and you can hear both cuts above. The title track is an easy-going number, built for gentle nodding-along-to and sweetened by vocal samples and glistening electronic drops. It makes space for one bendy segment, but for the most part is an easy-going…
KiWi’s commitment to spooky flair pays off big time on “M.A.Z.E,” a new number released via Good Enuff, a Mad Decent sublabel. It’s a swift electronic number, one with the peaks and valleys you would associate with a SoundCloud loosie — not to mention touches of trap and a razor-sharp vocal delivery — given a…
Man, the guy behind Hoshina Anniversary really likes his Gaga. He’s already remixed “Pokerface” and “Just Dance,” and now he takes his scalpel to the Beyonce-toting single “Telephone.” I had never listened to the song before (to save Gaga face, “Bad Romance” has become my karaoke song of choice. That intro is epic), but a…
Well, that didn’t take long. Following a lengthy period of silence, Japanese footwork outfit Paisley Parks returned with the glorious Coffin #1 like a week ago. Now comes Coffin #2, a further dive into what the project was cooking up in that relatively silent stretch of time. As you’d expect, this set is a nice…
Remember when MP3s were going to be the death of the music industry, and labels had to stop at nothing to get illegal tracks off of the Internet? The dirty secret of those glory days was that YouTube was way, way worse – while The Web Sheriff zeroed in on blogs, most kids were just…
Despite raking up an impressive amount of references in Super Smash Brothers, Nintendo’s EarthBound rarely gets blessed with the legendary status a video game of its status deserves. If my mind recalls correctly, Nintendo Power ranked EarthBound somewhere in the 50s or 60s of its “Greatest Nintendo Games Of All-Time List,” well behind a slew…