This one was expected, seeing as Taquwami has shared the two songs making up this release, but here it is. Highly recommended, as Taquwami gets a touch more epic with his music and the end result is a wavy journey. Get it here, or listen below.
Osaka producer OMEGABOY has posted a steady stream of material since late last year, occupying a stylistic zone somewhere between hip-hop and traditional Chinese music, all dabbed in a lo-fi varnish resulting from his bedroom workspace. His best moments so far have been when he ventures beyond pure instrumental and tries crafting weirdo pop, adding…
First off…HNC recently remixed Tokyo group The Brixton Academy’s “So Shy,” transforming it from a starry-eyed new wave joint into a chopped up, vaguely Bollywood track. HNC builds her take on the track around a bell-driven beat, slicing up the original track’s vocals into a call-for-prayer tone (it sounds a lot like the start of…
It isn’t necessarily made clear here, but if you follow Make Believe Melodies on Twitter or on Tumblr, you’ll pick up on the fact that J-pop idols are responsible (or, at least represent) for some great music. This outlet…which, in theory, focuses more on the independent/not-mainstream side of Japanese music except, uhhh, when it doesn’t…hasn’t…
Tokyo’s Canopies And Drapes, behind one of the year’s prettiest EPs, is now staring down The Rapture. She remixed that DFA group’”How Deep Is Your Love?,” a track many labelled a return-to-form and many astute YouTube users noted has a chorus sounding like “The Thong Song.” Canopies’ take removes the track from the club it…
Osaka’s Outdoorminer – the club-leaning moniker of the same dude behind Cloudy Busey and the vocalist of Ice Cream Shout – has returned. “I’m making an hour long set of soulful techno for this summer. here’s a preview!!,” he writes below “My Love Is Like…,” itself a reimagining of Mya’s “My Love Is Like Wo.”…
Sometimes, you want to compare an artist to a different act out there, and you worry that maybe…just maybe…you are wrong. And then you have the moments when bands are just like “yeah, this is what we are going for.” A minute or so into Sappy’s “Summer Of Love” video, the camera focuses on a…