The past year saw plenty of worthwhile releases from Japanese artists, from the sort of stuff highlighted at major music stores in Japan to free albums posted on Bandcamp with little fanfare. Yet all 30 albums on this list were special to us here at Make Believe Melodies in some way or another – whether…
Mark this down – first new Madegg track of 2012. The prolific and prodigious producer rolls into the new year with not just one new song, but a cassette release on Daytripper records. “Glance” makes up half of the Sea tape, the song continuing the Kyoto artist’s fascination with jazz and pianos that started sometime…
Indie-pop doesn’t strike me as the sort of genre that can be turned into a science fair booth. Though the actual music can often be described as “simple” (though it doesn’t have to be!), a lot of indie-pop group’s power comes from the at-times vague emotional side, like how The Field Mice’s combination of jangly…
The part of me that likes stockpiling blog posts so when public holidays…LIKE TODAY…roll around and I wouldn’t have to work loves the fact Kyoto’s Madegg releases music at such a fast clip. Yet the more reasoned side knows that would be a bad idea, so instead here is a post highlighting three tracks the…
Kyoto’s Madegg is 19. What were you doing when you were 19? I was goofing around in college planning my next post-midnight trip to Burger King. Madegg releases music like BK pumps out Whoppers…at a highly disturbing amount. First, dude posted a new song this week called “AM.” I’ll save space by just saying “FLYING…