At some point this fall, Make Believe Melodies turned ten. I’d known this decade milestone was looming — mainly because 2019 also marked my tenth anniversary of moving to Japan to work in the countryside teaching English to bored teenagers “for a year or two, tops” — and toyed around with ways to celebrate. Then life happened…
The EDM (or, at least close enough to be lumped in with that vague term) continues on this fine Monday. Over the weekend, Banvox shared his new single “High And Grab,” a frantic electronic number anchored by an at-times sliced up vocal sample (though, as frequently, straightforward pep talk) that features all the tight sounds…
EDM, contrary to what you might have read, isn’t dead. Maybe it is slowing down in North America or Europe, but it is just hitting its stride in Asia, where festivals continue to do brisk business and K-pop juggernaut SM recently launched an EDM label. In Japan, the style still does well, though one area…
Idol-pop and the Internet are made for one another. The former deals in fantasy and blurred lines, of selling people a very lifelike dream. The web, meanwhile, is the perfect place for an artist to drop into and create a new…well, anything. The two have been slowly merging over the last few years, and that…