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Stuff To Watch Over The Weekend: Madegg’s “Kiko” And Cuushe’s “Airy Me” Videos

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It’s probably about time to do a “stuff we missed: 2013 edition,” and one album I didn’t write nearly enough about is Kiko by Madegg. He’s still one of the most prolific electronic artists in Japan today, but also one able to backup all the output with talent. Kiko is his best full-length album yet…Kashiyuka from Perfume agrees with me!…and now, above, is a nice video for the title track.

Flau’s Cuushe released the song “Airy Me” quite a while ago, but now that lovely track has been graced with a gorgeous video, which you can watch above. Dazed Digital premiered the track, and in a bit of good timing The Japan Times ran a story about Cuushe and Flau this week.

Kansai Scene: New Madegg, And Vice Versa, Eadonmm X Ryuei Kotoge

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Lot to report out of the Kansai electronic music scene this week, starting with Kyoto producer Madegg’s newly released Alone Breath To My Family EP. It’s a collection of his wonkiest productions to date – late cut “Moviesound,” in particular, is among the most off-the-wall song he’s ever put together – yet still defined by his penchant for off-kilter percussion. Also, for an EP, this set stretches on for quite some time…makes you wonder what his next full-length will be like. Get it here.

Fellow INNIT regular And Vice Versa is also releasing new music, in the form of a new track titled “Island.” It’s a straightforward dance track highlighted by a female-vocal sample and, smack-dab in the middle, a barely intelligible spoken-word sample that serves as a nice (and sorta mysterious!) breather. Listen below.

Last, we swing back to Kyoto to check up on the always unnerving Eadonmm, who has a new album titled Aqonis out on Day Tripped Records this Spring. He’s previewing one track from that full-length, a collaboration with producer Ryuei Kotoge called “Antibody” that centers around some shadowey vocal samples that sound as if they are bursting through a wall of fog. Expect more words on Eadonmm’s forthcoming album soon, but for now listen below.

New Madegg: “Stripes”

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As the days pass by, Kyoto beatmaker Madegg’s new album gets closer and closer to coming hitting stores. The young music maker has been gradually sharing tracks from Kiko, and his latest glimpse at the album is the lovely, blinking “Stripes,” complete with title-appropriate video above. The star sound, as it tends to be in regards to Madegg’s music, is the percussive touches, how the main beat is supplemented by several other beats that give the song an almost trippy quality without turning “Stripes” into a mess.

Madegg Has A New Song Called “Karis,” New Album Slated For Spring 2013

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One of my bigger realizations from the past year – keeping up with Kyoto’s Madegg is just too difficult. The young producer is insanely prolific, as it seemed like he had two new songs up online every week. That on top of several EPs and a proper album for Flau. New song “Karis,” though, has a handy news hook which makes posting it instead of the dozens of Madegg tracks we had to ignore this year easier. This twinkling number will appear on a new album, called Kiko and out in spring of 2013. Listen to it below.

New Magical Mistakes Featuring Jake Falby: “With Love” (Also, Madegg And And Vice Versa Remixes)

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Impose Magazine let Erik Luebs…who records as Magical Mistakes, based in Japan…write about the blossoming Osaka electronic scene, and it is definitely a good read, so check that out first. It also comes with a new song from Magical Mistakes called “With Love,” and it at first sounds like typical goodness from the Shiga-based producer. It’s a lovely jumble of sound, enveloping electronics wrapped around vocal moans next to laser sounds only steps away from…the sound of paper being crushed up? Like the best songs on the Special Friends EP from the start of 2012, “With Love” is obsessed about sonic texture.

Though it becomes with something else I can’t quite put my finger on – beauty? – when a violin enters all gorgeous like. That comes courtesy of Jake Falby – here is a video of him playing on a rooftop in Buenos Aires – and it adds a sharp emotional element to “With Love,” the violin becoming the heart of the track as the flurry of electronics go off around it. Listen below.

Fellow INNIT artists Madegg and And Vice Versa remixed “With Love,” and you can hear those takes on it here.