This Monday, Maltine’s big Tokyo event at Liquidroom goes down, and with just days to go everyone seems to be getting into the festive spirit. DJ WILD PARTY made this fantastic mix featuring everyone performing, while Meishi Smile made a mix for Hi Hi Whoopee. Hard-hitting producer Fazerock has a new song to top it…
Idol-pop and the Internet are made for one another. The former deals in fantasy and blurred lines, of selling people a very lifelike dream. The web, meanwhile, is the perfect place for an artist to drop into and create a new…well, anything. The two have been slowly merging over the last few years, and that…
Netlabel Maltine Records has always taken cues from J-Pop, but in 2012 they seem to be hosting more and more music sounds like proper pop rather than simply inspired by it. The title track to Avec Avec’s Oshiete EP was one of his most streamlined tracks yet, while later in the year several Maltine artists…
“Brostep,” a bass-heavy style of dance music often just called “dubstep” in America to the annoyance of many, has turned into a powerful commercial music force in the West. Magazines like SPIN and Rolling Stone have written about this new wave of electronic-dance music, while festivals like The Electric Daisy Carnival pull in thousands of…