— Erik Luebs shared the latest installment of his Cycle series, the next two tracks representing for the month of May. Previous entries have coaxed words like “woozy” out of me in the past few months, but opener “Concrete Shimmer” takes that haze and adds a real sense of sweltering joy to it. It builds…
His second EP of the year, Hideo Nakasako enters trippier territory on the ADAM EP. If the Phonograph collection turned more inward, ADAM builds on that feeling, but gets a tad more experimental about it all. The three songs here introduce new sounds to Nakasako’s sonic approach — “Three-Forths” filters in Indian percussion alongside house…
The cosmic-eyeing beat days seem to be over, at least for Hideo Nakasako. He caught our attention two years ago with the spacey set Tiny Place a post-INNIT collection of wobbly beats featuring NASA samples. He’s put out music since, but this month’s Phonograph signals a total shift away from the depths of the universe…
Still trying to adjust to life after Winter Vacation, and part of that involves sifting through all the music released while I tried my best to avoid the Internet for two weeks. Here’s a quick post highlighting a few very recent releases worth listening to. – Osaka’s Pqpqpqpqpq has been making dreamy electronic music for…
Kansai producer Hideo Nakasako is off to a fast-paced 2014. Last month he released a great EP of music…and now he’s back with another three-song-set called Observation that continues to highlight him as an artist to keep an eye on in the always-busy Kansai electronic scene. It opens with the off-kilter “Star Lily,” a tipsy…