One of the niftier things Maltine Records has gotten up to recently is a series called Maltine Vocaloid School. Basically, a handful of trackmakers from the netlabel use a copy of Vocaloid 5 to create a new song, while documenting their process on video. Alongside that, all kinds of 2018 internet markers pop up, from…
Tomggg has been laying down playroom-appropriate electronic music for most of this decade, proving influential enough to be an early cornerstone of “kawaii bass” and inspiring many after. But nothing wrong with mixing things up either, and Tomggg welcomes a new voice into his twinkly world on “Feel Ya,” a collaboration with American artist Ehiorobo….
It’s always a welcome site to see worlds collide, even if you could kinda see it coming. Aoi Yagawa is a member of maison book girl, one of the many idol outfits to splinter out of BiS (uhhh, the original one). They initially seemed just like every other group sprouting out from that “anti-idol” outfit’s…
This seemed inevitable. Happy Kuru Kuru is one of those idol groups who have long used contemporary cuddly sounds — cough cough kawaii bass if you please cough cough — as a basis for their sound, working with producers such as Yunomi and Yuigot on chirpy cuts. So why not hook up with the producer…
You can make a strong case that Tomggg ushered in the current wave of “kawaii” electronic music coming out of Japan (and abroad). Yet even if you don’t want to go that far, he’s was undeniably ahead of the curve. But Tomggg has proven restless and, at a time when the producer could easily ride…