A rap song serving as the lead-off number to a label’s special compilation might not seem like usual fare for this blog. Yet rapper Tubaki’s “Soda Water,” the first cut from an album put out by the Pitch Odd Mansion collective, jumps out thanks to a beat far away from the usual boom-bap fare of…
Few better ways to start a new week than with a fresh track from Avec Avec, especially one as easygoing as “Silkroad.” The Osaka producer has long made the most of space in his music, but “Silkroad” is especially spacious, every detail allowed room to whirr off. It grows in intensity as it progresses, but…
The steady influx of Internet-centric producers into the ranks of J-pop has been exciting to watch…check the Maltine Girls’ Wave project, or Tofubeats getting to shine further with Lyrical School, or Schtein&Longer’s work with Especia…but one guy who deserves a bit more room to work is Avec Avec. The Osaka beatmaker (and one half of…
The title track to this new EP is something I’ve already written about over here, so I won’t gush too much more about it. But since that one fist-pumped into existence, it has become my most played song of the year thus far easily, and it is an incredible blast of ecstasy whenever it gets…
Avec Avec knows how to control a dancefloor, but geez this is a banger. Taking cues from Jersey Club music (which is pretty trendy in the indie-ish dance scene right now…see also Pa’s Lam System and DJ WILDPARTY among others), the Osaka producer creates a raucous song featuring chopped-and-pitched vocals, his usual offering of slinky…