Ahhh, the 1980s…you hear about ’em? Plenty of Japanese artists have, and try their darndest to imitate them the best they can, to mixed results. Given the ongoing push behind “new city pop” and a sure to never set interest in neon-soaked keyboard lines, 2016 is sure to be chocked full of this stuff (along…
Kosmo Kat has proven he doesn’t need to have guests on his tracks to make them shine — the majority of the numbers on his very good Square EP find him providing the vocals — but he also tends to produce some really lovely work when he does team up with new people. “Ere Sora,”…
Kosmo Kat’s new EP Square came out yesterday, and he shared one of that collection’s finest songs last night. “Pterosaur” features guest vocals from Brooklyn’s Trust In Love, her hushed singing resulting in one of the dreamiest (yet still thumping) cuts the Tokyo-based producer has made. Hopefully, I’ll have more on the EP as a…
I have a really shitty body fever right now, the sort of thing that makes you move at half speed and feel like you are covered in Icy Hot patches. Tokyo-based producer Kosmo Kat’s newest song works surprisingly well given the circumstances…I feel like my soul has dripped out through my nose, and his woozy…
Make Believe Melodies is proud to premier the second track from the forthcoming Paradice: Revisited by Friends & Lovers remix collection, wherein various artists rework songs from Tokyo outfit LLLL’s Paradice album. This week, the spotlight falls on Kosmo Kat’s remix of that album’s closing song “You.” Listen to it above…and tune in next week…