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A Great Introduction To INNIT, Featuring Madegg, MFP And So Many More

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Osaka-based event night INNIT is a name you will be hearing a lot more about in the more future, but for now the good folks behind the most forward thinking electronic music in the Kansai region (if not possibly Japan) have offered up a good introduction to what the INNIT sound is. In advance of the November 12 INNIT party at Osaka’s Nuooh, they’ve posted songs from the various artists constituting the INNIT roster. Ranging from the space jam that is Kyoto’s Madegg to the thumpin’ beats of Osaka’s own MFP. What this compilation reveals is how varied the INNIT crew sounds, making blanket descriptions of their music pointless because there isn’t a way to cover them completely. The twinkling glow of Leggysalad’s “Girls’ Afternoon Appointments” sounds very little like the chilly strangeness of Seiho’s “I Don’t Wanna Be Lonely” which in turn isn’t all that similar to Magical Mistake’s appropriately pretty “Really Pretty Rainy Day.” We’ve highlighted two below, but listen to all of them here.

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New Electronic Music Roundup: Mad Egg, Emerald Four And Magical Mistakes

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So much stuff worth yackin’ about, had to compile them all into one post!

– Mad Egg “White Lie”

Kyoto wonder-kid just keeps releasing new music…it is getting to the point where I seriously wonder what he does during the day besides get lost in his little sonic universe. “White Lie” comes off as a very unhurried track from the youngster, less like falling into a wormhole and more like being an astronaut hopelessly floating in space while feeling the oxygen pack empty out. This would be ambient dust if not for the random clanks popping up. Yet, “White Lie” is surprisingly calming. Listen below.

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– Emerald Four “曖昧な魂”

Keeping up with the space theme…this feels like being on an abandoned space station drifting into the weirdest parts of the cosmos. Fellow Kyoto artist Emerald Four crafts a strange, nearly five-minute journey through minimal glowing spiced up with random noises that could have been pulled from a boss fight in Earthbound.

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– Magical Mistakes Remixes Kuhn’s “We’re Gonna Make It”

Magical Mistakes is another artist associated with Kansai’s Innit crowd (same as Mad Egg), and assuming I can keep my work focus up you should be reading a bit more about him in the near future around these parts. For now, get a taste of what this dude does oh so well via his remix of Kuhn’s “We’re Gonna Make It.” You can download the EP his mix appears on…also features the original if, ya know, you need a reference point…right over here.

New Madegg: “Tea Break”

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First, obviously Madegg doesn’t take any breaks himself because he just keeps releasing these Dilla-esque numbers that go down like Reese’s Pieces.

Second, one of my personal favorite aspects of Madegg’s release approach is that you have no idea where he’s going to post his next creation. Following his Twitter account streamlines it, but in an age where promotion has become predictable, it’s nice to see someone like Madegg pinball from BandCamp to SoundCloud to actual physical products. “Tea Break” appears on YouTube, complete with a blurry still of seminal Super Nintendo joint Yoshi’s Island.

Finally, the actual song is another otherworldly (or, I guess, Los Angeles-ish) production number. The Kyoto producer has established a recognizable style by now, though “Tea Break” seems a bit more chilled out, those wordless vocals sounding super happy to just be floating around Madegg’s twinkling ether. Listen below.

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Sunday Night Treat: Madegg’s “Yesterday”

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Sunday night means time to savor a few more hours of the weekend, and also look back at the stuff that just happened and/or recover from it. Madegg has time on his mind, and dude just posted this new slice of nostalgic stardust “Yesterday.” Listen below.

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New Madegg: Crawl EP

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Kyoto’s Madegg dropped another EP over the weekend, the quickie Crawl EP. It’s a just-under ten minute collection of the youngin’ doing what he does best, which is roll up the universe into a cosmic joint and blast off. The highlight is the at-times-ambient cell splitting of “Fallen Color,” a song imagining what would happen if Fennesz stumbled onto Brainfeeder. The title track and “Filmatra” find Madegg in his comfort zone, “Crawl” being an especially stellar example of his other-dimension stabs at Dilla beats. Listen to the whole thing here.

Oh, and he posted another new song, this one called “Hige” after putting up Crawl. Dude makes tracks like some people eat midnight snacks. Check “Hige” out below.

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