No Pumpkin: Amunoa’s “Cinderella Song”

First off – and this ties in a bit – here’s a shameless plug for the intro to Japanese netlabels I wrote for Pitchfork. Chances are if you read this blog semi-regularly, you’ve been exposed to music from most of those digital imprints…but check it out! One label featured is Trekkie Trax, a burgeoning collective out of Tokyo who have been making some great electronic music for a while now. Their next release comes courtesy of producer Amunoa, based out of Nagano, and they’ve shared the title track to it today. “Cinderella Song’ is a loaded number, nearly every second stuffed with upbeat synth flurries and…what at one point sounds like Windows booting up. Listen above.