The Greatest YouTube Clip Of The Year Award
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The fact this didn’t go even more viral is a sign society needs to be reset and we should all start over. Amazing on at least four levels.
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The fact this didn’t go even more viral is a sign society needs to be reset and we should all start over. Amazing on at least four levels.
Tokyo-based producer welcomes in Spring…well, early Spring, but who’s keeping tabs that closely…with a new cycles of songs to get listeners moving. Like previous releases from him, the two songs on Cycle 1.3 | March match rumbling beats up with more uneasy details. That’s most present on opener “Mirror Room,” a sweltering number marked by…
For a band capable of such laid-back numbers, Mitsume’s music relies heavily on movement. Many of their songs chug along like a car doing the speed limit on the highway. “Sedan” almost takes this literally, with the title for one and references to just wanting to go…somewhere in the lyrics. But the best Mitsume numbers…
I will not bore you with the details of how I missed last week’s Anthem event at ageHa (but if you must know…not finding buses in time and having my socks ruined by rain). But I did, and it was a personal low point for 2017 (which, all things considered, isn’t too bad). Thankfully, Picnic…
I’ve been trying to find decent Japanese hip hop for a long-ass time now, but it’s no easy task despite the genre sorta sitting out in the open. The mainstream music establishment doesn’t embrace hip hop as much as they try to appropriate, giving artists songs with some light rhyming or maybe throw a turntable…
Another year draws to a close, and that means its time for the annual rush of year-end blog posts looking back on the year that was. And, again, I try to write an intro to this collection trying to say something original, about putting together lists and what it all means. But at this point,…
Even Shigge at a more relaxed pace turns wonky really fast. New single “Trapa” finds the Fukuoka producer leaning towards warmer climes, and the opening passage of this song goes all in on piano twinkles and bongo hits, followed by slightly warped (but hardly jarring) vocal samples. So far, so chill. But then everything gets…