Category: song of the week
Song Of The Week April 22
Seeing as we’re fans of dreamy pop over at the blog, this remix of The Kaleidoscopes song featuring Swiss Music Awards nominee Shuttle caught my attention recently. Remixed by Corserine, this is an unusually jazzy take on the original vapourwave:
I think it’s a song about a boxing match, or a failed relationship though I’m not sure which, either way fans of Japanese band Night Tapes, Tame Impala and even M83 would be well served by giving it a spin. It’s great!
We wish Shuttle the very best on his nomination now voting is closed.
Song Of The Week March 1 2024
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.
Song Of The Week Dec 18
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:
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.
Song of the Week Louie Rubio – Echo
Louie is “a one stop shop, [who] writes, engineers, and mixes his music at his full-fledged studio in LA” and ‘Echo’ is a song that has such and interesting chorus – it doesn’t resolve per se but flips modally into something I can’t quite pin down; all I can do is feel and I feel happy and sad at the same time. This is a good thing.
Watch out for this guitarist. Ps Louie – I have a Flying V, although I can’t play it as well as your Strat/Tele xx
Lifeboat Share Crushing Song ‘Till the End’
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 backgrounds but who finally meet to do what they really enjoy.
And it really sounds that they know what they’re doing and I firmly believe they’re going places. Add them to your Spotify playlist right now.
Song Of The Week August 7
Yi – Runaway
To all the fellow producers reading this blog, a great way to meet new artists is to hang out on Twitch feedback streams where all the other producers send in their tracks for analysis by those watching and the stream creator. And so it came to pass as I was hanging around streamer Todd Champ‘s channel, a young chap called Yi pitched in with this absolute gem of a song. Clearly inspired by M83, FM84 and all your face synthwave greats, this is a very strong tune with a seriously infectious chorus. I really really rate this one.
Najinsan!!!!!!!!! 