THE DIM play garage rock covered with bloghouse signifiers – their songs revolve mostly around guitar and drums, but the four-piece pushes in dashes of synths worthy of Hipster Runoff. Not much info about this band exists and they only have three songs streaming over at their MySpace, but the trio of tunes are pretty swell. Sounds a little like the dearly missed Be Your Own Pet with more Hype Machine potential.
In general, YouTubers venturing into music has been a disaster. Nothing worse than an influencer treating art as another way to build their brand, but here we are in 2019! But that doesn’t mean a YouTuber can’t hit when they do release a song. Koji Seto mostly makes videos like this, or this, or uhhhhhh…
東京のアーティストRyuuta TakakiのStillness EPにおいて、その定義は後半のトラック”Phantasm”に込められています。始まりはミニマルでリラックスしていて、楽園をシンセサイザーで再現しているかのよう。その音は鳥のさえずりを彷彿とさせていて、速いビートとは妙な違和感が。しかし一分を経過したくらいからは激しいクラブ・サウンドに変貌します。と思ったら…曲は再びアンビエントに。Takakiが静けさと激しさの狭間を追求したEPの絶好のスナップショットと言えるでしょう。タイトルは自然を連想するものが多く（”Under The Water,” “Chill Wind,” “Sleety Rain”等）、ミニマルな構成が特徴的です。でもノイズを活かした、よりダンサブルなトラックなんかもあります。Ryuuta Takakiのスタイルを知るにはうってつけの８曲作品になっています。試聴はこちらから。
Well, it isn’t his first album, but it is his first for a major label…and now Tofubeats’ First Album can be heard on its entirety on SoundCloud. The album features the singles “Don’t Stop The Music,” “Disco No Kamisama” and “Come On Honey!,” and guest appearances from the likes of PES from Rip Slyme, Bonnie…
The latest from Sabacan Records comes courtesy of producer ind_fris, a Kyoto artist last seen on the netlabel sharing some “Gorillawave.” With “Remind Me Tomorrow,” he constructs a persistent house number full of space, which allows for the song to proceed at a breezy pace. Not quite tropical, but when everything stops and only the…
Cornelius has returned, and he sounds at home with the current state of J-Pop. “If You’re Here” is the first song from Mellow Waves, his first original album since 2006’s Sensuous. And similar to the numbers on that full-length…and prior release Point…”If You’re Here” uses abrupt breaks and just-off rhythms to construct a song. Bits…
Credit goes to Spoon+ for being the techno-pop artist willing to edge closest along the line separating “catchy pop” from “brainless chirping.” The like of Perfume and Nuxx more often than not to stay completely in non-annoying territory, never approaching the lowest-common denominator of techno-pop…the music played in those cramped arcades featuring cosplaying attendants, which…