Watch (A Better Quality!) Video Of Sakanaction’s “Boku To Hana”
Much finer quality than when we first got a glimpse of this. Watch above, and have a nice weekend.
Much finer quality than when we first got a glimpse of this. Watch above, and have a nice weekend.
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…
There comes a painful moment where you realize you are only getting older, and all the things that you love lost to time are not necessarily going to carry over to future listeners. For me, that has mostly centered around this period in Japanese indie music — let’s say 2011 to like 2013, maybe 2014…
Trekkie Trax mostly hosts young artists emerging from the Japanese (and beyond) electronic scene, but they can pull in some veterans too. This release pairs long-running Japanese artist DJ Kentaro (a turntable champion) with younger Portuguese producer Holly for two songs, acting as a nice little connection between generations. “Jaran” finds them playing with restraint,…
Released at the very start of the year, pop trio w-inds’ “We Don’t Need To Talk Anymore” beat most J-pop to the trop-house punch, leading to a (surprisingly solid!) full-length riffing on similar ideas. The song became a go-to for a lot of remixes from all corners of Japanese music, many of them good but…
Let’s keep this simple…imagine Zazen Boys. Imagine a Zazen Boys prone to drifting off mid-song into bizarre realms. Now stop pretending and click here and listen to OWARIKARA. Specifically, “ドアたち” which goes all over the place in just under five minutes and includes maybe the single best touch any Japanese song has featured this year…
This is like catnip to me – Kyoto’s Maho Littlebear, who has made and been part of some really great music this year, puts a whole lot of electronic distortion on her voice for “Too,” and turns this digi cry into the base for a shifty floor-eyeing song, one where her vocals are static but…