#10. Parupunte Primitive Imagine your favorite pop songs, but recorded deep within a cave. That’s Parupunte’s debut album Primitive, a rough but formidable collection that manages to capture the Osaka duo in all of their scratchy glory, playing absorbing pop songs that sound like the were recorded deep inside a national park. Whatever the circumstances,…
Earlier this year, Osaka’s Soleil Soleil released the If I Could EP, one of 2015’s first-half highlights, featuring the producers pop-leaning house songs. His newest album, Soleil Soleil includes most of the songs from the aforementioned EP (only exception being the lovely “If I Could,” which you can still hear on SoundCloud) along with a…
The always musically fertile Kansai region houses two producers responsible for a pair of 2015’s best releases — Soleil Soleil and In The Blue Shirt — and the two released new works tonight, pretty close to one another. Great timing! Soleil Soleil’s “She Keeps Me Warm” is on the sparse side, the house-loving producer seemingly…
Osaka’s Soleil Soleil has always been about creating dance music drenched in feelings, but he’s a bit more direct with new song “Emotion.” Like the cuts off of this year’s still-strong If I Could EP, he creates a bouncy beat centered around vocals sampled from Mariah Carey’s “Emotions,” zeroing in on the “you got me…
Great music rarely just appears…it comes from somewhere, and usually the route to it takes some time. Back in late 2011 and 2012, an Osaka artist named OMEGABOY started sharing his wonky, squeaky electronic music online. He played synths in a band called Talking City 1994, an outfit that would go on to release some…