Don’t expect the “(Kosmo Kat And HVNS)” part to be up in the titles too much longer. The pair, working under the moniker Iivvyy, have established their own liquid-metal take on techno, all Terminator like, over the course of three songs. “Look” marks the third, and it’s as strong a statement a vision as the…
Tokyo producers Kosmo Kat and Hvns have orbited the same spaces for a couple years now, so the two coming together to form a new project isn’t totally out of left field. But the first song under their Iivvyy moniker surprises in just how effective it is in capturing what both artists do so well…
Lots of good releases over the past couple of days, here’s a quick round-up: — Bruno Uesugi celebrated Halloween with Untitled, a two-song set leaning towards the creepy (or at least unsettling). Although they can get harder hitting — looking at the second song here, with its concrete beats — Uesugi manages to give both…
The three songs on Tokyo producer HVNS just-released Chrome EP are night numbers, but they aren’t just simple songs for driving around empty streets or letting loose after midnight. A tension runs through the spine of these steely numbers, the warped vocal samples drifting through obscured ever so slightly, coming off like just out of…