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.
What has long separated Cicada from other slinky outfits creating smooth city-bound music in the 2010s is the little sense of unease they bring to their numbers. Suchmos or Nulbarich are a mix of cool and goofy earnest, but never unnerving, while Lucky Tapes or Never Young Beach tend to just be chill. Cicada, on…
Not long ago, the duo of AZUpubschool and singer (Update: and producer! She’s every bit as prodigious a producer as a vocalist, having made songs for Yun*Chi and surely having input into this. Five seconds of research would have shown me this, and now my ass is out, sorry about that!) Coris were getting goofily…
If I were to be totally honest, I think Suiyoubi No Campanella and their hectic mish-mash of genres started feeling a little overexposed this summer. Not necessarily their fault — being in the spotlight at all times is practically a demand for ascendant J-pop acts — but following the (very good) UMA I would have…
Few experiences in Japan are as overwhelming as entering into a pachinko parlor. The noise within is overwhelming, a cling-claning nightmare of electronics and sirens, a noise show for every neighborhood in the country. It’s the sort of thing that’s easy to imagine being just too much — I’ve lasted, at most, ten minutes in…
The ever-prolific Kyoto space-brain Madegg’s latest number, “Parasol,” comes off as more straightforward than some of his other recent material. It still contains the Brainfeeder-leaning spaciness that should get Flying Lotus to make the dude official Japanese resident for the label, but it’s not quite as wormhole-ready, something a bit simpler to understand. “Parasol” is…
“Wolves Running Through The Desert,” the B-side to Hotel Mexico’s forthcoming Double Denim single, shouldn’t be such a slippery song to think about. “A Space In The Loveless Field,” the A-side, seemed more demanding of introspection, the track’s slowly unfolding structure and general ennui the stuff that usually trips one up when trying to describe…