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.
City pop, a genre of music that saw its heyday during the high times of Japan’s bubble economy, has had a bit of a resurgence over the past year. The Japan Times covered this trend towards the retro recently, focusing on the likes of Greeen Linez whose recent album Things That Fade is an excellent…
It’s always nice to see an indie-pop outfit lean towards something slightly darker. Youthmemory, whose name should tip you off to how they’ve sounded in the past, inch towards the shadows on Neo Tokyo. Similar to how Moscow Club tried out all sorts of moods while still being centered around indie-pop sounds, the two songs…
Time for MAP! This month, we refuse to let the summer end by focusing on Takeaki Oda’s “Loop.” Hear it…and many more…below. Click the play button icon to listen to individual songs, right-click on the song title to download an mp3, or grab a zip file of the full 18-track compilation through Dropbox here. JAPAN:…
The promotional blitz for producer Tofubeat’s Positive continues with a new music video for “Suteki Na Mezon,” an easier-going number featuring model-turned-singer Tina Tamashiro. It’s pleasant enough when taken by itself, a nice ode to having a nice house, but it ultimately works better within the context of Positive, wherein it serves as a sweet…
The Mirraz ““君の料理(レシピNo.2027)” [youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDDtW4JqJl0″] Another day, another new Mirraz track and video to digest. The latest continues in the same direction as last week’s single “Happy Ice Cream,” putting the band’s rapid-fire-talk-sing vocals against relatively simple albeit sweet music. It’s another strong song from the group, and it’s helping to make their new album On…
Under the name Magical Mistakes, Erik Luebs has explored a lot of different themes. He’s zoomed in on nature, creating albums in tune with (and featuring samples of) the physical world around him, and the recently released Cracks In The Surface looked at the process of losing connection with those near you. His latest album…