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Watch (A Better Quality!) Video Of Sakanaction’s “Boku To Hana”

ByPatrick St. Michel May 19, 2012June 17, 2012

Much finer quality than when we first got a glimpse of this. Watch above, and have a nice weekend.

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Newton Faulkner X Cornelius – “Won’t Let Go”
ByPatrick St. Michel October 14, 2009

Folkie Newton Faulkner‘s new album Rebuilt By Humans comes out in Japan this week and features a very interesting collaboration – he got Cornelius to produce two tracks for this new album. One of those tracks, “Won’t Let Go,” definitely features Cornelius’ marks via propulsive drumming and other flourishes. An enjoyable little track, check it…

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Taped Up: JIV’s “For You”
ByPatrick St. Michel February 2, 2015

Miles Apart Records has been doing something called Cassette Tapes Club for a bit now…as the name implies, they take a Japanese artist and have them release a cassette of songs into various record stores. It’s a neat idea, but thankfully they also post the songs (at least some of them) online so those who…

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New Amunoa: “Smmr”
ByPatrick St. Michel August 24, 2017

Producer Amunoa excels at turning small moments into anthems. “Smmr” is poised as, well, a summer jam from the frantic artist, featuring a warm disco vibe and some sweltering synth work. The real hook of “Smmr” is the vocal snippet rippling throughout — it sounds like it was recorded through a talk box, but rather…

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It Was Spoken: Owtn’s Owtnism
ByPatrick St. Michel February 17, 2015

As far as fringe genres go, “poemcore” feels like it has stronger legs than a lot of the ideas that congeal into trend pieces. That’s even if it can be considered a style all of its own, though — “poemcore” is music where the vocals are spoken, like a poem, and that seems to be…

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New Crystal Featuring Matias Aguayo: “Kimi Wa Monster”
ByPatrick St. Michel June 19, 2017

The current increase in interest around older Japanese music — especially from the individual members of Yellow Magic Orchestra — has been a neat development, and makes the music electronic outfit Crystal has been making this decade look all the more ahead of the curve (errrr, by looking back). Crystal Station 64 found the group…

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Back To School: Harvard Are Back
ByPatrick St. Michel November 1, 2011

Harvard broke up back in 2007, but recently it became clear they were ready to give it the ol’ college try one more time. The Ivy-League-named duo started popping up on live events posters and getting Twitter mentions. Now, to confirm that this is for serious, they have a new album out and a single…

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