Preconceptions can be a drag. Producer Tomodati has spent most of the year making frantic, at times unhinged electro-pop, so you’d figure something titled EP 2016 would follow suit. But nope — the three song set jumps from sweetly sung robo ballads about love (the charming “We Are Not Cinderella,” which flashes a few instances…
Well, that is almost true. The always herky-jerky Tomodati certainly embraces juke music on his latest song, but he weaves in plenty of other elements too. For one, he approaches the jittery structure as pop, singing over the brisk beat like it is just another piece of music (bringing to mind another recent song). Yet…
Stare at SoundCloud or Bandcamp long enough and everything starts blurring together…a never-ending line of anime avatars sitting next to frantic electro songs*. How to stand out? Well, having a distinctive voice like Tomodati sure can help. Mutsuo Nakamura’s project features a lot of familiar touches for anyone who follows a lot of artists who…
Well, it’s more like producer Tomodati blurring a new fidgety number into an ’80s Japanese gem…but when your base is BaBe’s “Give Me Up,” you are off to a good start. Dude basically just loops the chorus over and over again and builds something new from there, featuring his fast-paced singing and various party-ready interludes….
There’s an element of chaoticness running through Tokyo music maker Tomodati’s self-titled EP that makes it more compelling than had this just been a straightforward synth-pop album. Tomodati can string together a good sounding song – opener “Hukutyu” is a shifty number built off sparse percussion and electric squiggles, while “Senzu De Dance” is a…