An overload of “kawaii” imagery always sets off alarm bells in my head. That can be unfair, but sometimes an overload of anime girl characters on a netlabel’s homepage or artwork makes me think the music is going to be pretty derivative, another producer trying to be Tomggg and not hitting the mark. The Commune310…
Just in time for summer holiday season, the 16th edition of the Fogpak compilation series has emerged, boasting the theme “vacation” and several instances of seagull samples. As has always been the case, Fogpak primarily puts the spotlight on emerging electronic artists, with a few familiar names popping in for good measure. So is the…
It’s fitting that this one pops up on my feed in the morning — “With” finds In The Blue Shirt and Batsu taking the sliced-up-vocal structure the prior has been making party starters and reflective numbers with for a while now, and restructures them for an airy number where the words still spill out fast…