#10 In The Blue Shirt Cyanotype And Sensation Of Blueness Across these two brief but busy releases, Osaka’s In The Blue Shirt transmogrified the familiar into alien forms. His approach to music remains the same — grab a line or a few from a song, whether it be an obscure cut or a global smash…
Maybe I’ll start posting year-end content this week? I don’t know…I want to, but I’m also *looks over Google Calendar app* extremely behind on my work. So maybe! But to be safe, I can’t blow all of my good adjectives to describe DJWWWW’s music ahead of a best albums list, as his release with Orange…
It has been a good year for Japanese artists creating catchy music out of chaos. DJWWWW (we will decide on the proper stylization one day, I swear) found beauty in the overwhelming world of pachinko, while Foodman taped together all sorts of sounds to create a wonky and absorbing wonder with Ez Minzoku. Isamu Yorichika’s…
Here’s a nice moment of worlds colliding, facilitated through a third party (label Phinery). DJWWWW is one of the higher ups at the always absorbing Wasabi Tapes, and on Split he’s sharing space with Mukqs, the project of Max Allison, co-founder of Chicago’s Hausu Mountain (helpful article here). Fittingly, when the two come together, a…
Orange Milk Records…who have been highlighting great Japanese artists such as Foodman and mus.hiba for some time now…put out four albums late last week, two of which came from a pair of this country’s wonkier producers going. Anyone reading this blog for a while can probably guess what sound DJWWWW’s Arigato leans toward — a…