American artist Teams is the sort of artist one could (unfairly) write off quickly just by glancing at his song titles. “Mile High,” “Based Love” and especially “Seven Daze A Weed” either paint him as a herb-obsessed dude who probably makes the sort of floating tunes everyone loved in 2009 and got sick of in…
It took me a few listens to even hear any hint of the New House track on this, HNC’s “remix” of “He Howls” off of that Tokyo band’s Burning Ship Fractal from earlier this year (remember that album?). The original version of “He Howls” is a plenty-good song, a squiggly highlight from an inconsistent album…
In theory, this shouldn’t be noteworthy – Japanese producer takes track from British pop star, replaces the club-friendly elements with 8-bit noises while keeping the sticky sweet chorus intact. That’s what Fukuoka’s Breezesquad did with Little Boots’ “Shake,” removing nearly everything from the original save for the vocal track, and sticking that inside an NES….
The CUZ ME PAIN roster always finds a way to keep themselves busy. The four primary projects of the Tokyo label – Jesse Ruins, The Beauty, :visited and MASCULiN – will contribute remixes to the Japanese version of Spanish artist Linda Mirada’s forthcoming album. The first of these remixes has popped up online – MASCULIN’s…
Synergy! Today in The Japan Times, I reviewed Turbo Town, the new album from rock-dance duo 80Kidz. Read it here. The nitty gritty of it – Turbo Town is a very good album with occasional great moments, but it’s also an album where 80Kidz end up sabotaging themselves by not being confident enough to do…