Singer Lovely Summer Chan and producer Yoshino Yoshikawa have made for a great team over the last few years, the two collaborating on various songs and an EP for Maltine Records. They’ve gathered some of the highlights from this partnership…along with a few fresh cuts…and released an album of material called Yoshi Yoshi, Summer. The…
1. Overall, I love what Maltine Records has been doing/continues to does, but the only thing that makes me bite my lip is these special sites they make for big releases, such as this collaboration with Amagawa Uchu. Mainly because it destroys my computer every time…a large part of that is, despite being a (*air…
Perhaps you’ve heard the word “kawaii” used…a ton over the past year? I mean, more than usual (especially if you teach junior high school children), as “kawaii” was brought out to describe all sorts of artists, ranging from an expected J-pop star like Kyary Pamyu Pamyu but also for the loopy likes of SOPHIE and…
Singer Lovely Summer Chan has been working with a lot of artists as of late – she’s a member of For Tracy Hyde, has sung with shoegaze bands and even popping up on a Tofubeats single. Yet her collaboration with producer Yoshino Yoshikawa remains her best endeavor to date – her sweetly delivered vocals glide…
One final song for the weekend, and one more Tokyo-themed track from a Maltine artist performing at Monday’s Maltine “Tokyo” live event. Yoshino Yoshikawa teams up with LASTorder for…here’s that place again…”Tokyo,” a bouncy, fidgety electro-pop number continuing in Yoshikawa’s recent tradition of not really altering the vocals in anyway. Whereas in the past tasteful…