And it’s Japanese! And Vapourwave! All win here! Too many exclamation marks!!!! Oh nose!! I can’t fault this kind of stuff and it’s exactly my jam. Very Tame Impala, very Kaleidoscopes very….good. I’m super late to the party though because this game out aaages ago. Who cares. When you hear good music, you need to share, right? H/T Alexander Gillmartin ..read more

Mathmoth – Tais-toi (feat Jason Critter) Tais toi just means shut up. No you shut up! I digress. I heard this on a Twitch stream and it got me all thinking “you just don’t hear many songs like this these days…sigh….”. The production may need a wee bit of love and attention but the intent is there: a really strong song in the tradition of early Marillion or heavier version of early 80s Dio. Oh to hell! Let’s fling Rush in there while we’re at it! Super interesting stuff. Oh do tais toi ..read more

So back once again with a roundup of some cool songs I’ve heard recently. Kamelion – Happy And I think it will be fair to say after hearing this slice of rare groove infused nu-disco you will be too. Vocals are lovely although it’s hard to say who they remind me of – perhaps Charlie Puth? But whatever, fans of Metronomy and the Weeknd will be most satisfied. Waves_On_Waves x Sonic Shades Of Blue x Tommie Sunshine – Coming By Your House Tonight Following in a similar vein from Kamelion we have Waves on Waves with a solid electro pop song coming about after a chance meeting ..read more

Pa-Pa – Liminal Pop Up Shop Ticking all my boxes of Jpop, Synthwave, Vapourwave, Raregroove; Liminal Pop Up Shop is just a joy to listen to. There are nods to early 80’s City Pop like Sadao Watanabe and The ABs or even modern acts like FM84 or The Midnight, with with it’s infectious synth lines and that oh-so-Japanese chordal arrangement. I’m also reminded strongly of the work Vaughn Oliver of Oliver fame is up to from time to time. A really strong track this one and I hope to hear more from Pa-Pa very soon with their album due March 2024 ..read more

I’m back from a most excellent trip to Taiwan so have had not too much time to blog. But! I did find some pretty cool music on my travels which I shall regale you with now… PARIS x Keepa – Only You A class production here and as a struggling electronic producer myself I greatly appreciate the talent. This is progressive house with a twist of the deep house. It’s the chordal modulations around the 2:50 mark that raise this track to a darned high level. 湯ノ山かがり – 自意識過剰撤廃委員会のテーマ Theme of the Committee to Eliminate Excessive Self-Consciousness is what the Google translate tells me the song means ..read more

So I’m in Taiwan visiting family and eating random food when by a quirky twist of fate I chanced across a band called called The Kaleidoscopes who have a new song out called Kung Fu: Kung Fu – Kaleidoscopes ft Shuttle Musically it’s a mix of very good things: Home, Empire of the Sun, with bits and pieces of Tame Impala and M83 all thrown in for good measure. Not much left to say except I have another blog post to write real soon about other great music like The Kaleidoscopes I’ve heard recently. And if you want me to hear your music you can send it to the blog here ..read more

Era Wadi – PRPL FREESTYLE REMIX ft. ARDLAP As many visitors to my once world famous not-cooking-blog know I do like the odd bit of off-kilter house music and this week provides zero exceptions in the shape of Ardlap’s remix of Era Wadi’s track PRPL. Era tells me he was a massive Prince fan and wanted to pay his respects to the wee guy by writing a song about the colour purple (not the film, ha!) and then have it remixed by someone certifiably insane. Et voila! Voici le résultat! Une chanson house vraiment dérangée! No idea why I’m speaking French but this song made me do it. And you will be s ..read more

Spandau Ballet once sung a song about gold that was used in the 1984 Los Angeles games and it was all like “GOLD! Always believe in your soullllaaahhalll! You’ve got the powah to KNOW you’re indestructible woah” etc etc and it was fun at the time. However, Gold by The Infinity Chamber (TIC) is nothing like that but is a deceptively technical finger style arrangement a la mode du Donovan with maybe a small side dish of Nick Drake. When I asked TIC what the song is about he tells me: [The track was] finished in the hot summer of 2004 when I was living in Yildiz, Istanbul. I’d been listening to ..read more

Hey ho another round up of songs I found recently and rather liked. Some via Submithub and some on random travels on Twitch. The Kites – Drunk In Japan Well, this being a Japanese music blog (mostly) these young scamps make the blog by virtue of singing about ‘being drunk in Japan’ which I have not done yet, although I have been trashed most other places. The band tell me “[we] have followed the trusty formula of releasing unrelenting guitar bangers that sound custom-made for radio airwaves, festivals, headline shows and everything in between”. Quite. And Drunk In Japan is a great song. It do ..read more

Over on Submithub I often peruse the Hot or Not charts and every now and again I find a song that piques my interest. And Some days ago I happened across this song by Lifeboats: This is a massive song with huge production, crushing drums and a deceptively uplifting chorus. Comparisons to Linkin’ Park or System of a Down will suffice but these guys lend an interesting blend of melody and melancholy I don’t hear often. The band lends more detail over a brief chat: [We are] a kind of powerful and modern rock’n’roll fed by a chaotic assembly of 5 guys, a gang of friends with very different backg ..read more