In recent months, the only act from Tokyo’s Cuz Me Pain collective that has been really visible has been Jesse Ruins, who released the disorienting ode to online-life Heartless late last year. Still waiting to hear anything from The Beauty, but long-running project White Wear is back in 2015 with the Round Eyes EP, a…
A quick check in from Tokyo’s White Wear, one of the artists falling under the CUZ ME PAIN umbrella. And it is a brief check in with “A Witness,” a just-over two minutes featuring a distorted vocal sample, some clattering and a general atmosphere of unease. Listen above.
It isn’t so much CUZ ME PAIN has been missing as much as they’ve been doing their own thing in the corners of Tokyo in 2014 – the artists making up the collective/label have been holding their own DJ events around town, and (at least in the case of Jesse Ruins) have started work on…
Bits and pieces from this, CUZ ME PAIN project White Wear’s debut album, have been popping up over the last few months. Yet the final product, Black Strings, has been only available in stores in Japan since its release. Now, though, White Wear has uploaded the whole thing to SoundCloud so everyone can enjoy the…
Monday morning huh? That’s no good. Here’s some new music from Japan to get you through this day. – Nagoya producer House Of Tapes has been expanding sonically from his original, punishing take on dance music. New track “Mellow Days” isn’t the acoustic hammock-jam that would signal a total about-face, but it is certainly one…