New Madegg: “Parasol” Plus New EP Players

The ever-prolific Kyoto space-brain Madegg’s latest number, “Parasol,” comes off as more straightforward than some of his other recent material. It still contains the Brainfeeder-leaning spaciness that should get Flying Lotus to make the dude official Japanese resident for the label, but it’s not quite as wormhole-ready, something a bit simpler to understand. “Parasol” is…

Madegg Embraces Some Lowercase Letters, Also Releases New EP

It’s great that an artist can just throw recently completed tracks online minutes after completion and get attention for them, but still it’s nice to see actual albums and EPs pop up as well. Kyoto’s Madegg (looks like he doesn’t go all caps anymore, cool) has been posting a bunch of excellent single tracks to…

New MADEGG: “Telephonekings” And “Spectacular”

Forget telephones – this sounds like fax machines getting drunk and invading a bounce house. Kyoto whizz-kid MADEGG’s latest upload brings up all the same words I’ve already spat onto this WordPress page before – imagine the word “space” repeated on loop, complete with semi-creepy vocal sample. What’s slightly different here is how buzzing MADEGG’s…

Kansai What: MADEGG

Tokyo is always going to be the central scene for all Japanese music, just because of the sheer size of that metropolis. Yet the Kansai region…the area anchored by the triple-threat of Osaka, Kyoto and Nara…has been hiding some of the most interesting electronic noises in the country today. I’m not just talking about tech-rock…