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.
I’ll always have a soft spot in my heart for music that conjures up memories of the 2011 and 2012 Japanese indie rock community, when Hotel Mexico put their spin on chillwave and the entire CUZ ME PAIN universe offered an unsettling merger between dance and rock. Naturally, the one group left to emerge from…
Man, let’s not even get into my productivity on this rainy Tokyo Monday…no greater feeling than spending a day researching something for a story your on deadline for only to realize “wait, this is the worst direction to take it” before starting over completely way too late in the day. Thankfully, Kyoto’s Native Rapper dropped…
Knew this was coming and already got excited about “Track Maker,” but now via Trekkie Trax comes the Mass Maker EP, which I believe is Kyoto artist Native Rapper’s first proper collection of songs. I want to try to write about this later, but if you liked “Track Maker” or still vibe out as hard…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwui0KAHblo”] It’s strangely appropriate that lo-fi beach memory-dabblers Friends promoted new demo “My Beautiful Anna” by placing the song against an old beer ad. This isn’t the typical “chillwave” strategy of nabbing faded footage of the beach or an old copy of Rad and hitting up Movie Maker – scenes of sun-soaked fun from days…
Melbourne’s Super Magic Hats* has kept a close eye on the Japanese music for quite some time, so it is only fitting that he would start working closer with outfits here. One of his songs appeared on the last FOGPAK compilation, and now he’s released a new EP through Tanukineiri Records called Slowly. Definitely go…
LLLL’s Chains project has allowed the Tokyo-based producer to explore a wide range of sounds and tempos, some entries offering speedy dance numbers, while others have leaned closer to something more reflective and slower. “Slowly We Come” hints at its pace right in the title, finding the producer creating a song that takes its time…