The first ten days of the year have already seen a handful of great Japanese releases, with the latest coming courtesy of long-running electronic producer Cherryboy Function. His Word In The Petals album arrived this past Wednesday, and he shared the chipper “Distopia (Inter-Tech)” the same day. The just-over six minute song is Cherryboy Function’s…
It has been awhile since dance producer Cherryboy Function’s Suggested Function #3 EP came out, and its floor-centric whirl climbed into our hearts (and this blog’s top-20 of 2010 list). The wait for #3 seems worth it, and here’s the first widely available track from Cherryboy’s latest. Like a lot of the highlights from his…
20. Kido Yoji Call A Romance On his debut release, Kido Yoji makes dance music for people who like spending significant amounts of time staring out on bright0lit cityscapes. Call A Romance certainly moves – check the easy-breezy disco shake of the title track, or the irresistible pop of “Hot And Cold” – but beneath…
20. The Brixton Academy “Two Shadows United” The Brixton Academy have always played the role of overly earnest nightclub crawlers, guys who love evenings out on the town but also aren’t good at bottling up all those icky emotions, prone to letting them shoot out like just-uncorked champagne. Whereas Kido Yoji distracts from his ennui…
Cite that old Elvis Costello about dancing and architecture if you must, but writing about DJ-made music shouldn’t require any goofy similes in order to convey what a fruitless endeavor it can be. It’s not like more critically-friendly stuff like The Field or Daft Punk, which allows writers to focus on minimalism and Barry Manilow…