Seishin Takeno's "Echoes," a sonic postcard from Kanagawa. Nine instrumental pieces, I've been told. Not nine songs, mind you – more like nine shaded windows into a particular kind of quiet. This isn't music that yells; it leans in, like a friend confiding a secret you half-hear on a summer porch. Immediately, you're not so much listening as remembering. Or maybe anticipating. It feels...

Gary Mictian can be considered as one of the artists who are forging a path in the hyperpop area with his new single "I Can't Do This Anymore." This song is a predecessor of Mictian’s most popular debut album "Nosedive" which doesn’t include any of the conventional elements of electronic pop and at the same time evokes some fragments of dystopian science fiction and cinematic...