Here’s as relaxed a way to close out summer as you are going to find in 2018. AR30’s Late Summer Compilation 2018 closes out the season with a set of late-afternoon dance tunes, optimal for one last party by the pool (even if leaves are starting to muck it up). This easily could have been…
Two producers who are fond of letters — AVV (And Vice Versa) and RGL (Rigly Chang) — team up for a split single released via fledgling label 4×0.2ss. AVV’s “The Forrest And Friends” shuffles ahead, featuring a mix of ghostly vocal details and a sturdy beat that makes sure it doesn’t get too unsettling. As…
Producer Rigly Chang is launching a new house-focused project called RGL, and will put out his first release at the start of February via Breaker Breaker Recordings. “S.U.G.A” is the first taste of it, and as advertised, it finds the producer really embracing the style, complete with understated piano line and vocal snippet. It slowly…
Ignore one of the worst cover images I’ve seen all year — no easy accomplishment, given the terrors of Bandcamp’s “Japan” tag — and focus on the music within AR30: Autumn Compilation, which is much much better. The electronic collective’s second comp of 2016 highlights their creative approach to beatmaking, which oftentimes runs well beyond…
Tokyo-based producer Rigly Chang last popped up on the split compilation between Fukuoka imprint Yesterday Once More and the capital’s Cosmopolyphonic (Chang reps for the latter), but he’s back a few days into 2016 with the glistening strut of “I Can’t Let U Down.” It flows forward via bass snaps and twinkling synth splashes, anchored…