Here are the two sides of Fukuoka-based whisper-rapper Izumi Makura. “Blue” comes off of a soon-to-be-released EP, her first offering since teaming up with popular fashion show Tokyo Girls Collection for a song that featured in their last show. Pretty big! Makura herself isn’t changing much up on “Blue,” though. She delivers her melancholy lines…
Tokyo producer Eccy’s remix of Canadian duo Purity Ring’s “Belispeak” downplays the very sonic trick that those two used to become one of 2012’s most buzzed about new groups, and it’s a good move on Eccy’s part. Whereas the original song features manipulated vocals piling up on one another over a hip-hop-inspired beat, Eccy gives…
Remember the scene in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory where the crazy candy creator teleports matter across a creepy white room by breaking it down into tiny bite-size molecules via something called “Wonkavision”? And then that boy who isn’t Charlie gets broken down by this technology and floats across the room? I picture the…
Man, I want to be inside Eccy’s mind for, like, half a day. No Inception stuff, I just want to see how he experiences the world around him because if it’s anything like what his music conveys, rainbows drip down his cerebellum. Recent track “Braingirl Experience” hits like a slot machine exploding, Eccy laying down…
At least half of this song’s title is dead on – Tokyo producer Eccy’s “Rainbow Eyes” erupts with color, a tweaked-out dance track with a Starburst Tropical candy pack’s worth of visual stimulation. Like the titular natural phenomenon, trying to describe this tune seems kinda pointless. Eccy lays everything out right in front of you…