20. Lolica Tonica Make Me Feel EP Tokyo’s Trekkie Trax runs on pure energy, the netlabel being a rare case where seeing anyone in their orbit live trumps digging into the .ZIP files they upload online. And they have released a lot of great dance music over the last couple of years, with 2015 being…
Considering the general cute bend so much electronic music out of Japan right now takes, it’s really nice to have the blackhole sounds of Osaka’s Yullippe around as a counter of sorts. She has been creating industrial-tinged tracks for a while now, releases such as Loop Bell and the song “Black Moon” suffocating listeners with…
The best tension comes from the ever-present threat of something…you don’t know what, but something…being present but unseen. Producer Yullippe’s “Black Moon” throbs forward, all oxygen-depleting electronics, interrupted once in awhile by elegant touches, which seems to raise the song out of the tar pit it initially finds itself in. Yet it is all the…
Osaka’s electronic music community has produced a lot of different sounds — wonky, funky, house-leaning, hard-hitting, abstract. But I’m not really sure anyone in the last few years has really sounded particularly menacing. Well, producer Yullippe is here with the rumbling, intimidating Loop Bell set. She’s (and this is important, given how male-centric Osaka’s electronic…