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.
The last few Local Visions’ releases didn’t offer much room to get all verbose about nostalgia and different angles on the past. Ahhhh, but here comes HiRO.JP with a three-song set to get the brain racing again. The project has been playing around with the sonic idea of city pop, doing it far more faithfully…
Kissmenerdygirl has shown flashes of creativity when working with others, usually by bending their usual “future funk” dashes into something a singer can shine over. “Lotus” — or, technically, a bunch of characters my computer can’t display plus the word “Lotus” — is actually quite basic for Kissmenerdygirl. The producer crafts a relatively simple beat,…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHNGJJWNzZ8″] Personal story time – back in college I really really liked the album Pregnant Fantasy by Tsu Shi Ma Mi Re. After spinning (clicking the iTunes play button over and over again?) for about six months I ended up moving on to whatever else I thought was cool in 2006 and forgot about Tsu…
Rare is the album art featuring a reference to a prominent vaporwave album, but here we are. Happy Kuru Kuru are an idol unit comprised of two members, Nonoka Nagase and Kinoko Mori, and who dabble in a sound and visual image just right for your discerning idol listener (read: jerkass blogger). They are a…
Consider this the sorbet following yesterday’s emotional bloodletting. Digital Clinic 2000 are a bunch of goofballs, and bless ’em for that. “April Stretch” serves as their proper debut, and it is a silly number built around the group delivering echo-soaked spoken word bits over a slinky synth-driven beat. Just check the cheap video coming with…
It’s appropriate that Japanese experimental artist End’s Not Near’s song “Indian Summer” was made for a movie. The Meso-Meso-minimalism-by-way-of-post-rock sound of the track lends itself to acting as a soundtrack, but “Indian Summer” is so much more than some ambient gauze. This song manages to stand out divorced from whatever images its meant to go…