What better way to start off a nice Spring week then with some melancholy indie-pop? Opaluc’s “Snake With Wings” swirls around itself, downcast guitar being slowly joined by a hazy electronic sheen, obscured vocals and jarring electronic skitters popping up once in awhile. It’s a pretty piece of twee ennui, nothing more nothing less. If you want something a little more upbeat before you go to work, give Opaluc’s “Man With A Movie Camera” a whirl too.
Pasteur answer the great unasked question “what if Tortoise signed to Warp and really liked King Crimson?” with the song “Zahala Zzahala.” A cursory glance over the band’s influence list on MySpace initially hints to what the track could have ended up sounding like – either a math rock tinged in the vein of Battles…
Sometimes, it’s best to stop chasing what is happening RIGHT THIS INSTANCE in favor of seeing what slipped through the cracks, both on a larger scale and just on a personal level. For me, that was chancing across (via Twitter) producer and singer I Am Not Rainy Girl, who has released a lot of great…
The vision surrounding a Boys Age album tends to be more unexpected than the music itself. New World Pregnancy, a long gestating full length, comes billed as “an imagined soundtrack” to a story one half of the Saitama rock duo wrote. It gets pretty detailed…a machine goes sentient…and stands as the most ambitious bit of…
Neonrock’s “TV SON” initially sounds like factory work. Guided by a slick conveyor-belt of a guitar line, the group carefully adds instrumental touches like they are assembling a really nice car. Clappy drums, efficient bass and especially the vocals which come off as geekily manic, never spilling out but with all the contained spazz almost…
Avec Avec knows how to control a dancefloor, but geez this is a banger. Taking cues from Jersey Club music (which is pretty trendy in the indie-ish dance scene right now…see also Pa’s Lam System and DJ WILDPARTY among others), the Osaka producer creates a raucous song featuring chopped-and-pitched vocals, his usual offering of slinky…
浜崎あゆみの新アルバムには”Melody”の変わったリミックスが収録されています。彼女の声を加工したり、様々な方向にビートがちりばめられていたり、こんな曲が収録されるのはかなり稀な事ではないでしょうか。”ポスト・ダブステップ”と呼ぶにふさわしいこの作品を手がけたのは東京のプロデューサーBroken Haze。この浜崎あゆみのリミックスが気に入った方は彼自身のEP”Lightning Flash”も気に入ると思います。この新作からの”Air Castles”という曲は巧みなボーカル・サンプル使いや華やかなキーボードが特徴的な、キャッチーなダンス・ナンバーになってます。EPを通して聴く事をオススメしますが、部分的に試聴したい方は以下から。