Make Believe Mix For January 2012 Featuring Sugar’s Campaign, Occult You And Cloudy Busey

[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/35310683″ iframe=”true” /] This year started off on a great note for Japanese music, as so many artists released great material in January. Heck, there is so much stuff not on this month’s Make Believe Mix that deserves more love that it is pretty staggering. Yet what did make it on this 27-minute mix…

While We Were Out: New Cloudy Busey “Don’t Know Why You Love Me”

A lot of stuff happened while we were on vacation, and some of it we didn’t notice until, oh, minutes ago! Look, I had Jamba Juice to drink, I let my Twitter-viewing habits slip a bit. Anyway, one such late discovery was this new track from Cloudy Busey, the solo project of Ice Cream Shout’s…

Make Believe Melodies’ Top 50 Japanese Songs Of 2011: 20-11

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…