The Music Alliance Pact is a project where music blogs from over 30 countries select one song a month to share with the world from their nation. Make Believe Melodies is MAP’s representative from Japan. This month we are highlighting the chilled-out dance music of Greeen Linez. “Palm Coast Freeway” comes off of the duo’s…
Over the past year, I’ve gotten a little burned out on found-footage videos. They were charming for a while, but now just feel like forced nostalgia. This attitude, though, clashes with what I think about Greeen Linez’ new song and video “Hibiscus Pacific.” Though the video below relies on VHS-quality footage of old Japanese advertisements…
30. Michiyo Honda “Paradise Lost” J-Pop remains an easy punching bag in 2011 because most of the criticism lobbed at Japanese mainstream music ring true. A large chunk of acts crowding the upper reaches of the Oricon chart are 90’s holdovers with appropriately bland tunes. Labels seem to be in an arms race to see…
Tokyo-based label Diskotopia…read a good Japan Times profile this way…aren’t taking it too easy this summer despite pumping out music just waiting to play alongside an afternoon spent sitting on a beach towel. Matt Lyne, one of the imprint’s co-founders, produces under the name A Taut Line and has a new number online now, called…
I came across Greeen Linez “Palm Coast Freeway” a bit ago, whenever the excellent folks over at No Modest Bear first posted the summer-tastic clip accompanying the song. I listened to and enjoyed the song, possibly preparing my next-day lunch while enjoying that almost sleazy bass strut out of my speakers. “Great song!” I thought….