Producer CRZKNY has made a lot of politically aware music in the last few years, releasing some very impassioned (and very bleak) collections of juke following the Fukushima nuclear plant incident, and he has played a prominent role in organizing the Atomic Bomb Comps of the last few years. Yet dude likes to have fun…
Hiroshima producer CRZKNY was last spotted organizing this past August’s fantastic Atomic Bomb Compilation Vol. 2, and now he’s manning his own project, the L.O.L. EP. In contrast to the politically charged electronic songs on the comp he oversaw…not to mention many of his previous EPs…L.O.L. is pretty straightforward in delivering footwork-leaning tracks, most of…
There are certain songs that, for me at least, have been ruined by English teaching. These include Stevie Wonder’s “I Just Called To Say I Love You,” The Beatles’ “Hello Goodbye,” and John Lennon’s “Imagine” (joke, that one already sucked). Added recently…ABBA’s “Money,” which I heard about a dozen times in one week and…well, let’s…
One of the weirder things to happen…or, more appropriately, not happen…in the realm of Japanese music is the near lack of music relating to the 3/11 earthquake and tsunami or the Fukushima nuclear incident following it (and still going as strong as ever). I’m not talking about outright political songs addressing the government or TEPCO…
Late last year, the electronic-music-from-all-across-Japan compilation Fogpak #4 came out, and it was a fantastic collection of digital music from all over this fine country. At 21 tracks, though, it could feel a little daunting, regardless of how much great music the folks behind crammed into it. Welp, Fogpak #5 dropped over the weekend and…