The duo of KiWi dabble in a lot of sounds that have been ever present in Japan’s electronic music scene for the last few years — spine-cracking bass, trap-appropriate beats, fast tempos — but they’ve managed to stand out thanks to their flair for the dramatic. The KiWi project features a legit story, with characters…
KiWi’s commitment to spooky flair pays off big time on “M.A.Z.E,” a new number released via Good Enuff, a Mad Decent sublabel. It’s a swift electronic number, one with the peaks and valleys you would associate with a SoundCloud loosie — not to mention touches of trap and a razor-sharp vocal delivery — given a…
Nothing like posting something, and then immediately finding out said artist’s other project has a new release too. AZUpubschool — along with producer Cor!s — put out a new four-song set as Kiwi recently, one that is a bit more thumping than AZU’s recent solo album. It opens with “Sugar Panic,” a song imagining “what…
Not long ago, the duo of AZUpubschool and singer (Update: and producer! She’s every bit as prodigious a producer as a vocalist, having made songs for Yun*Chi and surely having input into this. Five seconds of research would have shown me this, and now my ass is out, sorry about that!) Coris were getting goofily…
I don’t remember Kiwi being this wonderfully goofy when they released the Promise EP via Zoom Lens this past March. That one — a two-song set that really introduced the pairing of producer AZUpubschool and Osaka singer Coris — certainly had some upbeat instances (“GreedGreed”) but ultimately was a pretty dramatic and shifty affair. “Kiwi…