The Greatest YouTube Clip Of The Year Award
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv4gUdn6Lcc”]
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.
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv4gUdn6Lcc”]
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.
Programming Note: It’s Silver Week in Japan, and I’ll be in the countryside for the next three days! This either means less posts or more, all depends on Internet connection. Moscow Club’s second album, Outfit Of The Day, comes out next week, and here’s the third taste of it. “Carven” is the most refined number…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2C9iWWPwtA”] Mop Of Head are a four-piece instrumental band from Tokyo. I’ve never actually mentioned them on this blog before, but wrote something up about them and their debut album Retronix for The Japan Times today. Read it here! As the story mentions, these dudes are all over the place with their influences, though nearly…
Here’s a slippery new techno-pop tune from Mie Prefecture’s Sayoko-Daisy. “Nomal Position” is an unpredictable strut of a song – her vocals are delivered mostly in near sing-speak, except when she swings into a digi-manipulated passage mid song. The music itself is just as tricky – there’s a backbone groove, but electronics burble in the…
New article for The Japan Times, this one about Caroline’s upcoming live performance in Tokyo. Read it here. Verdugo Hills remains one of my favorite albums of the year so far, a gorgeously constructed electro-soundscape that is like Bjork keeping one eye on the ambient scene instead of the dance clubs. That said, I still…
The Atomic Bomb Compilation’s continued relevance isn’t so much the result of coincidences as much as the entire inspiration for this project’s existence taking up more of the frame with every passing year. Vol. 5 arrives in the middle of a summer featuring a news cycle featuring nuclear weapons…and threats for said devices to be…
Electronic unit Animal Hack appeared last year in 2016, but felt like they got a further push over the last few months following the release of this year’s Boy, which got a lot of promotion on streaming services (which, while still very fledgling, feel like they are starting to carve out space…maybe…in the Japanese market)….