Add to the “late to it, but still great” file I’m filling up quite nicely — producer Secret Space released the album Believe one month ago, though it sounds every bit as enchanting now as it probably did then. As has long been Secret Space’s style, these songs are dreamy and nostalgic — “Past” literally…
Sitting in my “drafts” column for…what…the past month now has been a post about Chao Fujimoto, probably the most interesting Japanese artist I’ve stumbled across this fall. She’s a 19-year-old woman who makes something between poemcore (the semi-genre where people speak over music) and deep-dream pop, as she uses synthesizers and samples to create her…
The sound of rain and a school chime…Secret Space delivers right on the title from the start before introducing a delicate synth skip accompanied by bell shakes that makes up the bulk of his latest. Taking cues from the nostalgia-tinged sounds of i-fls or Shortcake Collage Tape, it’s a fragile little song where those samples…
Anime certainly plays a role in Anime, the latest EP from fledgling producer Secret Space, but it isn’t in any particularly bubbly way that seems trendy at the moment. This is unsettling territory, where sampled dialogue from cartoons plays out behind synths howling away or drum machines given plenty of space to strike, making the…
There is no shortage of home-based producers in Japan today…and here are two more. It’s tough to really put a name to what Waver Friends does, mostly because I STILL am not sure what the ultimate definition of “vaporwave” is. I am leaning towards calling this at least “vapor inspired,” as it is a faded-sounding…