Maltine Record’s latest offering, a brief EP from artist Submerse, features one new song, two remixes of said track and a third remix which will get a paragraph all its own soon. First, “Agepoyo.” This is light-speed dance music loaded to the gills with vocal samples (either of the titular word being repeated or what…
Maltine, the netlabel distributing all sorts of electronic music for free, continues to inch closer to their 100th release. They currently sit at 93 thanks to 909state’s recent Piano Lesson release, a brief three-song dip featuring two original songs and a remix of the title track. 909state’s music gets labeled techno and it’s a pretty…
Two more articles in the Japan Times this week. One focuses on Maltine Records, which I’ve written about a bit ’round these parts. The other, though, touches on a group I’ve never written about on this blog – MacDonald Duck Eclair. Read that one, a review of their new album, here. I actually don’t have…
Talk about timing – around the same time I wrote about the anime-loving Maltine Records, the label uploaded their 91st release (free to download) to their site. The newest offering comes courtesy of Submerse, and it’s an entire album full of original songs and remixes clocking in at just under 50 minutes. Also included –…
The music industry’s decade-long struggle to make money has led to all sorts of artists trying out new ways of packaging product so people shell out real currency instead of just typing “album title .rar” into Google. Sometimes you can “pay what you want,” other times you can get an MP3 download by buying a…