Trick Quilt: Oorutaichi’s “Moeru Himitsu” Featuring Kicell

ByPatrick St. Michel

[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHpbmE3RPoE”] The video for Osaka musician Oorutaichi’s “Moeru Himitsu” features various crudely filmed scenes of everyday life edited together in nearly nonsensical order, creating a weird clip where ordinary shots of orange juice and chickens take on a slightly disturbing appearance. It’s kinda like that one Charlotte Gainsbourg video without all the quirky indie bullshit…

Oldie But Goodie: Shugo Tokumaru’s “Rum Hee” (OORUTAICHI Remix)

ByPatrick St. Michel

Osaka’s OORUTAICHI takes “Rum Hee,” one of the most joyful rushes on Shugo Tokumaru’s bubbly Port Entropy, and mutates it into a strange, multi-headed electronic beast. He originally edges the song into skittering electro territory, putting Tokumaru’s sweet vocals against a slipstream of digital gurgles. After the first chorus, though, OORUTAICHI changes his mind mid-air,…