Electronic artist Qrion is at her best musically when exploring the quieter, almost hidden side of the genre’s sound. It’s a little too precious to position something like Sink as an alternative to busy EDM — Qrion just played Hard Fest in California, so she isn’t existing in a whole different world — but she…
Besides making original music worthy of soundtracking a move to a misty forest, Qrion is among Japan’s best remixers right now thanks to her ability to find a new angle to an existing song without sacrificing the spirit of the untouched version in the process. That’s all on display in her rework of Aristophanes’ “Peach…
The Fader premiered this remix Hokkaido producer Qrion did of Skylar Spence’s “Affairs,” and it’s a good one! Qrion takes the skippy original and slows it down a bit, playing up a drama that was already present in the original (similar to what she’s done with How To Dress Well in the past). It’s a…
Sapporo is, technically, the birthplace of Hatsune Miku, the avatar for singing-synthesizer software Vocaloid. Fittingly, the Hatsune Miku Dreams Of Electric Sheep EP gathers electronic artists from Hokkaido’s hub to create songs using the technology. It’s also one of the more interesting Vocaloid releases in the program’s history….a lot of artists using Vocaloid tend to…
Qrion has been getting a lot of looks outside of Japan over the last year, and here’s one more bullet point for the resume. The Hokkaido producer has worked with Berlin-based artist Deadbear on the song “Tongues,” a dreamy little number loaded with glockenspiel and distorted vocals. I think Qrion adds a little of her…