#20 Cicada Formula It’s easy to recreate the past, as no shortage of Japanese bands borrowing from ’80s city pop and ’90s acid jazz have shown in recent years (and, really, globally…this is all Daft Punk’s fault). Cicada’s earliest work slid in nicely to this safe but oftentimes overly familiar space. But Formula decided to…
The Trekkie Trax Crew — specifically referring to Carpainter, Seimei, Andrew and Futatsuki — are going on a jaunt around the United States’ west coast starting later this week, and in advance of a string of shows in Los Angeles, Seattle and San Francisco, they’ve shared the energy-ball of a song in “Thunder.” It’s a…
The music usually flowing forth from netlabel Trekkie Trax tends to be on the harder side, or at least designed to work best in a live setting. Producer Sleepwell, though, offers something a bit more heady on his new collection Never Ever, released last week via the imprint. It’s hardly Trekkie Trax’s big shift into…
– Lost in the shuffle of the New Year, Osaka’s And Vice Versa released a new EP via Kiniro Tapes. The founding member of INNIT made a hypnotic set of dust-covered techno, as tracks such as “Magnet” peel like paint at places but still end up morphing into engaging numbers (And Vice Versa gets downright…
There was a week where I nearly only posted “kawaii bass” music…remember that? Well, it was kicked off by producer Snail’s House, who had been sharing bouncy tracks on SoundCloud loaded with cute, cut-up vocal samples and so forth. It at times could be a little too cuddly, though with more than enough going for…