Osaka’s Yullippe excels at slow-burning electronic numbers that feel like quicksand. Her latest, “Retouch,” is one of the more sinister sounding songs she’s made in recent memory, less about pounding the listener into submission and more about making them feel deeply unnerved over the songs nearly eight-minute-long play time. A few human breaths appear early on, but from there everything sinks into a dark, at times jittery number. Get it here, or listen below.
The title and cover art of Keiji Community’s newest collection brings to mind something a bit…heavier (I had a …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead vibe)…than the smooth, synthpop that actually comes out when you hit play. But hey, the end result is solid. Wastelands is an easy-to-digest, catchy four-song set…
It has been a pretty good stretch of time for Japanese artists making pop with a deeply unsettling side. Entering the fray now is the latest release from a netlabel I’d usually associate with the brighter side of sound, Tanukineiri Records, with Araki Takara’s Paranoia. Similar to yahyel, you don’t have to bend yourself out…
No stranger to remixing for J-pop acts, England’s bo en remixed Niigata trio Negicco’s song “Let’s Meet At The Festival.” The original version is a solid bit of pop — better than the leak-backing group’s newest songs, but not touching the material on this year’s Rice & Snow, one of the favorites for 2015’s finest…
Still not actually sure if Toyohirakumin is from Sapporo or is just pretending to be from Japan, but I’m going to continue taking risks in the hope that their is finally a vaporwave artist who actually lives in the country. Music In The Air, released through vaporwave imprint Dream Catalogue, collects several songs that have…
Kyoto’s Madegg dropped another EP over the weekend, the quickie Crawl EP. It’s a just-under ten minute collection of the youngin’ doing what he does best, which is roll up the universe into a cosmic joint and blast off. The highlight is the at-times-ambient cell splitting of “Fallen Color,” a song imagining what would happen…
Ningen OKは是非ライブを観てほしいバンド。彼らについてあまり詳しく知らなかったものの、先週末のライブセットは最近観たライブの中でも特に印象に残っています。手作りの白いピラミッドのようなオブジェに囲まれて彼等は演奏を開始。ギターTakurou Yamashitaは大量のペダルの前で演奏し、ドラムのKen-ichi Sakaguchiは時折ボコーダーを使用し、怪しい機械的なボーカルを披露。言葉が無いインストでもこのデュオには高度な一体感があり、ロックなグルーブ感を出しています。 ライブハウスだけで輝くのではなく、録音された作品も同様に素晴らしいです。”体温の行方”は静けさを打ち砕くカオスみたいなものが上手く表現されていて、Ningen OKの核となるスタイルを知るにはもってこいな曲（フィードバックを是非体感してほしいです）。試聴は以下から。最近リリースされた同タイトルのファーストアルバムからの曲なので、もし気に入ったら通して聴く事をオススメします。要するに、Ningen OKの音源にはライブから感じる事の出来る素晴らしさが詰まっています。是非ブックマークを。