Electronic artist Tominaga hasn’t avoided using her voice in previous releases, but Pain Is Mine features some of the most direct usage of it yet. Primarily, the first two songs. “A Song For Blue Witch” skitters to life, but mostly hangs in the air, allowing space for Tominaga’s stretched-out singing to take up the center…
Electronic artist Tominaga highlights two sides of her sound on a pair of albums that came out at the end of May. Limbus gathers several of her ambient, often wordless, creations from 2016 to now, highlighting her approach to constructing sound exclusively. The revelation is she’s capable of squeezing a lot of feelings out of…
Lots of good releases over the weekend, here’s a round-up of the highlights! — Yunomi has his sound — jacked-out dance music colliding with pastel cuteness — and he isn’t deviating from it anytime soon. And while I’m sure cheery bass drops aren’t going to charm forever, he still manages to turn Happy Kuru Kuru’s…
Today is a day where we zero in on artists who are having a productive 2016, it seems. Tominaga released the lovely electronic escape Echoes Of Megaliths earlier this year, and the Saitama-based producer is prepping a new album called The Water Dreams The Fire. “Call” is the first taste of the collection, a bouncy…
One of my most vivid memories of high school came during video-editing class, when one kid went over to one of the bulbous iMacs we used and fired up Garageband. “Yeah, I make tracks on my computer, every week,” he said. “Love that techno.” He then hit play on a four-on-the-floor beat with a little…