Geez time flies…already June, and that means the June Music Alliance Pact is out. Just in time for the summer we feature Okinawa’s StillSound this month. Check it out! Click the play button icon to listen to individual songs, right-click on the song title to download an mp3, or grab a zip file of the…
Okinawa producer and Toro-Y-Moi-devotee Stillsound has a new EP online, a four-song collection simply titled Her. It finds the young producer getting a little more lost in the chillwave-ish sound he been submerged in since he first emerged, with a few neat twists. Opener “Chlorine,” for example, jumps out as being an instrumental featuring rubbery…
Some days new sounds just keep on coming through the digital tunnel. Today (and, well, the last few days) has been just that. First off, “ultrapop” producer Yoshino Yoshikawa has a new EP slated to come out on Zoom Lens next week, and The Fader premiered a track from it today. “Yumetatsu Glider” recruits singer…
Okinawa’s StillSound returns with a lovely, bouncy number called “Good Idea.” It’s a relatively straightforward track – a beat, some non-flashy synths, singing which isn’t immediately audible but far from fuzzed out – that doesn’t change much during its playtime. Yet it’s an effective combination, especially StillSound’s singing, which rises and falls elegantly and ends…
still sound isn’t shy about his influences – the name gives away his interest in Toro Y Moi before you even read the SoundCloud bio that calls Chaz Bundick his “bro.” It’s the project of a 17-year-old high-school student named James who lives in Naha on Okinawa – “well, like an hour north” he tells…