Nobuyuki Sakuma handles production duties in both Jesse Ruins and Nites, two of the many projects found in the CUZ ME PAIN universe. What, exactly, separates them? At one point, my answer would have been “Nah,” the vocalist who adds the ghostly soul to most of Jesse Ruins’ music, evidenced all over the recently released…
Someone out there in Twitter’s hyper-short content wasteland decided to make an account for Jandek, the Texas recluse who has spent 30 years recording music from his house in Houston. The accounts a fake, but one that serves as a nice reminder of how much the musical world has changed in a dozen years. Jandek…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjc5x9h_Q4g”] A lot has changed for Tokyo’s CUZ ME PAIN label since they released their first compilation a few years back. AAPS called it a day, Jesse Ruins grabbed some blog love and got picked up by Captured Tracks, Lovers In The Wind remain a complete mystery and Melancholic Masculinity just goes by Masculin now….
10. Avec Avec “Kuzuha No Sunday” I’ve been told the Kansai region of Japan has always had an electronic music scene. Yet 2011 felt like a beginning, or at the very least a boom, for forward-thinking electronic sounds. Gravitating around several labels and events, artists like Madegg, Seiho and And Vice Versa started flooding SoundClound…
Starting this week, you’ll start to see a steady stream of year-end posts, covering all sorts interesting trends and developments in the Japanese music landscape, leading up to our songs and album lists. Though this isn’t an officially sanctioned year-end entry – look at these imaginary standards I’m inventing as I type!…I think CUZ ME…