Stream Madegg’s New Now
One of the Japanese albums we were most looking forward to this fall is streaming over at Red Bull Music. Kyoto producer Madegg’s clanging New is up, and you can listen over here.
One of the Japanese albums we were most looking forward to this fall is streaming over at Red Bull Music. Kyoto producer Madegg’s clanging New is up, and you can listen over here.
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…
No rest for Osaka’s Paellas, even after releasing one of the year’s better EPs back in January. They are prepping a new double-side single, and shared new song “Pears” this weekend (the other one is called “Distance” — so maybe this one, back when they were a bit more fuzzy rock?). “Pears” is certainly of…
Update: This is not a new song, just a new visual for a song that came out two years ago. Rushed to post this, and in the process failed to double check. Thanks to @nsilvias for pointing this out, I really just need to not blog when I have other things to do and can’t…
It has been a long, strange trip for HNC. She started her career as Hazel Nuts Chocolate in 2000, appearing in songs by Plus-Tech Squeeze Box and Yasutaka Nakata’s Capsule project, which at the time was more focused on globe-hopping Shibuya kei than dance beats. Her earliest collaborations and original work was hyperactive pop, all…
Producer fu_mou’s “Green Night Parade” has become one of the defining Japanese netlabel songs of this decade, a number that has gone on to influence plenty of artists all around the world and one whose sentimentally sweet vibe was ahead of its time, the chirpy vocals and piano a couple years in front of the…
Vocaloid-loving producer mus.hiba has remiex other artists before, but for his latest trick, he turns the digital scalpel on himself. He’s reconstructed last year’s powdery (no, really, it sounded like being blanketed in the white stuff) “Slow Snow,” and he’s turned it into a pulsing, seven-minute-plus journey. The original clocked in at just over four…