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.
It might be just around the corner, but the summer still seems oh so far away, at least through the filter of work (hello Monday morning, hate to see you again). It Happens seem to also have the warmest season in mind with new track “Summertime,” but they also have variation on the mind too….
An appropriately big couple of months coming up for Big Love Records. They’ve got a new release coming soon from Aya Gloomy, and they also have new artist Anna, whose “Electric Dreams” is very sparse and very simple. A very simple melody, accented only by some faint synths and a few trippy wooshes, which allows…
One of the big thrills of 2019 finally being here is that we get to reflect on the decade as a whole…real soon! Some of my favorite artists this past ten years in Japan were bedroom creators zeroed in on one stylistic drive, and just exploring it in seemingly infinite ways. Think Ventla, or I-fls….
In 1992, Switzerland selected the song “Soleil Soleil” to represent the country in that year’s Eurovision contest, the annual event where European countries play out diplomatic misgivings with one another by voting against their bad pop music. Performed by Geraldine Olivier, the song was eventually disqualified by the Swiss and replaced by something else. This…
Half of this entry should be relatively self-explanatory — these are albums that, for various reasons, just missed our final cut. All of them are worth your listening time, and them falling just outside of the top 30 really shows just how much good music came out of Japan. The other, though, is a bit…
As usual, a lot of quality songs appeared online over the weekend…here are some of the highlights. — Osaka’s And Vice Versa has been a bit of a busy bee over the last month, releasing a handful of tracks. “Never Told Me” is the latest, and a skeletal one at that — it’s a slow-burning…