Fidgety is the word for Osaka producer Metome’s offering, even more so than usual. “Mother Data” pops and locks all over the place, a flurry of synths zooming in from the left while some processed bass notes zip in on the right, never really meeting in the middle but sorta bouncing off one another as…
Do you like Alicia Keys? Do you like Alicia Keys pushed to the extreme edges? She’s made a handful of really great music all her own too, but there have also been some fantastic remixes of her songs. Now, here comes up-and-coming Osaka-based producer Metome taking Keys’ “If I Ain’t Got You” and turned it…
The first Music Alliance Pact of 2014 has arrived! To kick off the new year, over 30 blogs from around the world have selected a track to share with the rest of the globe. For Japan, Make Believe Melodies is highlighting the fidgety “Bishop’s Rising Sun” courtesy of Osaka’s Metome. Listen to it…and a lot…
Kansai producers doing things. Metome has been having a busy January, having released the fantastic Objet album (this year’s early frontrunner for album of the year…note, it has been eight days into the year). Before that, though, he released a song called “Paper Moon” as part of an EP called Phreatic Surface released through Canadian…
We (basically) just put a bow on 2013, and now a slew of albums appear online that are already jostling for 2014 list positioning. Geez, I was gonna take a vacation now, can’t do that. Osaka’s Metome is the latest artist to drop a new album at the very end of the year, and this…