Here’s the final premier from the remix collection Paradice: Revisited By Friends & Lovers, an album featuring reworked numbers from Tokyo outfit LLLL’s debut album, out today via Zoom Lens. The finale comes from fellow Tokyo unit Jesse Ruins, who remixed “Because Of My Eyes” into a skittery number that would fit in just nicely amongst a CUZ ME PAIN night somewhere in the capital. Listen to it above. And get the album here.
If this isn’t quite the best case for musical relations between neighbors, it at least offers a nice step forward. Plenty of steps have been made to bridge the gap between Japan and Korea’s music communities, with all sorts of shows happening between artists of all genres from both Japan and Korea, and…uhhhh, I guess…
It’s one of the most uninspiring names Ive ever heard while doing this blog – Sound Image, a title that seems so matter-of-fact it seems only a few pegs up from naming your project “Music Project.” Coupled with a near-complete lack of information, Sound Image is the sort of musical entity you see on your…
新曲“Lizaveta”を説明するにあたり、Moscow Clubは“Well, it is April”と説明しています。この東京のバンドは彼らを形容する２つのジャンルを上手く融合させる事に成功したようです。このバンドを2012に聴き始めた人はきっと明るめのシンセ・ポップのイメージが強いはず。C86 コンピレーション収録曲とBradbury EPでは多くのシンセが使われていますが、それを除けば純粋なインディ・ポップ。ギターとドラムのみでアップビートかつメランコリックな曲を書いていた事もありました。“Lizaveta”はキラキラした星屑のようなシンセで幕を開けますが、Daisy Miller EPに収録されていてもおかしくないような曲へと展開していきます。Moscow Clubはシンプルなバンド構成をシンセによって上手く味付けできるようになったと感じます。加えて、南国風のパーカッションが心地良いです！視聴は以下から。
In The Blue Shirt’s speciality is digging into the DNA of existing songs and modifying them into something entirely new and totally dizzying. “Cast Off” revisits this formula ahead of a new album, and reminds just how effective it is. ITBS splices up some vocal samples from a song (or songs) I can’t put my…
House of Tapes always gravitates towards the more cacophonous sounds, but look between the cracks and the Nagoya artist smuggles in a lot of beauty. The Drift EP offers one of the single best examples of this right away with the title track, which features buzzsaw electronics and a heavy-hitting beat. But in between those…
Genres are a tricky thing. People want you to reject them until they don’t — a lot of folks act like the concept of a genre is limiting until they need to fence others off from it. Yunomi’s “Sakura Saku” is a rare number where styles actually do get sucked up into a vortex, the…