August is now over, and this month’s Make Believe Mix highlights some of our favorite songs from the past month. This installment goes from indie-pop to dance, featuring the likes of Fancy Books, Moscow Club and Night Vision. Listen or download above. Below is a list of artists and songs appearing in this month’s mix,…
Right now, I don’t particularly feel like dancing. Summer has officially set up residence in Tokyo, as the average high has jumped up substantially and the humidity has made doing anything except taking a cold shower feeling like an Olympic-worthy achievement. Dancing, even when the temperature drops a degree or two at night, is near…
If the artists gracing the covers of music magazines who make more aggressive strands of electronic music aren’t really your thing, here is a trio of Japanese producers whose latest tracks are relatively chilled-out affairs, the sort of stuff made for lazy summer days. Osaka’s Okadada released two new tracks this week – “Cee” resembles…
“Disco” is one of those dangerous words you can’t just throw around lightly. It manages to evoke images of John Travolta, ugly pants and riots all in two syllables. Some people still hate the genre with a weird passion, while worse yet others embrace it with ironic distance, creating sounds that are certainly indebted to…
In which the shining dreamy qualities of Canopies And Drapes original mix of the (still excellent!) “Sleeping Under The Bed” get flipped into late-night, chilly Italo Disco. Night Vision subs in 80s synth lines over the twinkling prettiness that defined the original, making their remix slightly more danceable but ultimately a bit back-alley shady like…