Tag: J-pop
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Exightly
Occasionally you’ll come across a mashup artist who is very good, known in their sphere but weirdly not big elsewhere, and should be much bigger. Exightly is not a complete stranger to Radio Clash – featuring on the Xmas podcast two years ago #296 with the mashup embedded here – an ambitious mashup of Queen…
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RC 314: NEW Age (15th Birthday Part 2)
Second part of the 15th year birthday episodes, and we go all new age, futuristic and shiny with drum and bass, Japanese pop, jazz harp, happy hardcore, serial minimal classical, new age and dream pop ambience from Canada, New York, Britain, Los Angeles and Venice, psychedelic star-watching tomorrow vibes, modern britpop and even the odd…
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#Horseproblems
Petrol Hoers came into my life (fnar) last night through the odd means of 6Music (playing silly horse themed crumpltastic punky speed/breakcore? Really?). I’ve been through the whole of his equine oevre (err, horses don’t lay eggs, neither do humans I guess…) and this is my favourite still from the latest album. As Petrol Hoers…
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RC 297: BANUARY IDOL
After a gluten free Christmas, it’s a New You and a fresh start on those resolutions that will last about 2 weeks – Veganuary, Dry January, going to the gym, etc. Yes let’s give up nice things on the most depressing, grey and dark time of the year! That’ll work! So bucking the trend we…
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LadyBaby
Oh look out BabyMetal, here’s LadyBaby which takes the J-Pop metal sound to a new level, with wrestler and Australian death metal singer Ladybeard, channelling something rather Aphex meets Grayson Perry in his performance, both evil and cute at the same time. Here’s their track ‘Nippon Manju’ with an album released soon. This is gonna…
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RC 257: Sinking Under The Waves I Saw A Strange Brass Fox
As the band played on and I slid under the waves. I saw a strange new world, a chrome country of glittering golden brass bands and singing children, J-Pop stars singing death metal, a sailor’s daughter remembering the songs of her father, a dream of Belgian New Beat and electronic computerised pop. And foxes, obviously.…