This is pretty much the perfect kind of track to have appear at a time when I’m splitting time between last-second assignments and year-end-list planning (it’s tough!). Cool Japan shared the new rumbler “Give Up On You,” and it’s a house track that feels like its halfway to being sloshed. The key detail comes via…
Future Funk remains a confusing one for me personally, but when it’s used as a backdrop for an original song I’m usually on board. South Korea’s Night Tempo works especially well in collaboration with others, especially vocalists, and the Japanese version of “Catch!” with Antenna Girl certainly works. The original is a catchy bit of…
Nothing on Migration clicks completely, but everything clicks just right. The duo of Mondo Algorithm dabble in a kind of music where the distance between every element is clear, but it snaps together all the same. See “Dive,” a woozy number moving at half speed that features locked-in bass, synth washes and out-of-time vocals. Yet…
Plenty of electronic tracks sound big, but few sound as big as Braven’s “Contact.” The young Osaka producer — 17 going by the SoundCloud bio, alongside the description of “I make music that lets your penius erect” — teams up with Yami (who, based off the Vocaloid-lite vocal style, might be the UTAU Yami Ryone)…
There’s something thrilling about an artist just being entranced by specific sounds, and then seeing what they construct with them. For the past three-so years, I’ve mostly been drawn to the experimental side of this fancy — Foodman, Wasabi Tapes, Taquwami, etc. Yet this feeling manifests itself frequently in the more traditional dance community too,…