Oh yeah, first of January and what a lovely surprise over at the new Rephlex online store!
DMX is back with 17 choice electro cuts available for a very reasonable six pounds twenty five pence! This a great electronic music release – listening to it as I type, and DMX keeps it funky, full of warm analogue bleeps and my favourite part about it – good solid basslines. Download it, stick it on your ipod, grab your tracksuit and bump it out from your motor. Boom!
What happens when you type “japanese electronica” into the tag search of last.fm? It throws up some unusual choices, but you do come across some great artists that you’ve never heard of. Keep hitting that skip button often enough and you’ll soon slap the last.fm robot selectah into shape. So far, today’s click-hopping came up with these little treats:
Tiny, but not tinny. Rather like having a bath in an old cupboard and then dozing off to find all of those old board games that you used to play when you were a kid have fallen in the water with you and you are now surrounded by soggy monopoly money and bones from “Operation”. The music, is thankfully a lot better than my writing, so go check ‘em out.
No messin’ about here. Straight in with dark, distorted beats dropped onto a dark background of spooky pads. I’m a sucker for this sort of thing, and fair play to the lad, he knows what he’s doing. Good ipod electronica for the following activities: skulking, stalking, buying/selling drugs and making love (when you’re really tired).
Never heard of her before despite being remixed by a ton of famous producers. I’m just not as hip as I used to think I was. It’s how J-Pop would sound if it was produced on a busted netbook running a cracked copy of max/msp. In other words, it’s pretty damn good. Atmospheric and twisted, but more like a cinnamon twist than a twisted sister.
What’s with Japanese dudes always using their real names to make music under? Can’t anyone just use a weird pseudonym anymore? Anyway, this fellow makes sweet beats, minimal and atmospheric. He’s from Sapporo apparently, which means he must have a lot of free time to polish up those groovy electronic sounds. Good work Naohito.
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A smooth mix of dubstep, hiphop, techno and house to chill to as the leaves turn and we crack open the warm sake.
