Again, not my art, just clip art, bless it forever. 10. Emerald Four Nothing Can Hurt Me “Nothing can hurt me.” Imagine it as a mantra, a sentence muttered to build confidence in otherwise bleak moments. It’s easy to imagine those four words running through someone’s head while listening to Emerald Four’s album of the…
Things “Jeux Interdits” reminds me of, at least upon listening to it at 11:30 at night while slightly sleep: – The body slowly melting down into a rubbery liquid, but being totally aware of the process. – A college lecture in a burning church, but better than that sounds. – The slow crumbling of society,…
Kyoto’s most shadowy producer, Eadonmm, is having a good year. He’s released one of the best albums out of Japan so far this year with Aqonis, which you can read my review for here. Now, he’s revisiting his past by re-releasing his cassette-only collection Anne as part of a split with South Korean producer Sima…
I completely forgot it is Easter this weekend, and for many folks that means extra days off. So…here are some new Japanese electronic songs to savor over the holiday. – New Seiho, yessssssssss. “Plastic” isn’t as fidgety as the Osaka producer has gotten in the past – but he certainly stuffs a whole bunch of…
At long last, my most anticipated album of 2013 is out. Kyoto’s Eadonmm has been the Kansai beat-music scene’s resident shadow lurker, eschewing the spacey and frantic sounds favored by most of the other prominent electronic music producers rising up in the region right now, instead creating spacious drone-leaning numbers that are as unsettling as…