
Out of Japan, comes this submersive wave of soothing rhythmic bliss. Taquwami is a producer from Tokyo who should definitely be on your radar. His tracks are full and heavy, expansive electronic soundscapes somewhere on the border of post-dub, glo-fi, hip-hop, dreamwave, dub, and chillwave. Being on the border of those genres, and not being those genres, is what sets him apart. Below are his most recent three tracks he released together for something called Golden Week Chillbeatz. Download links are in the description here . He is certainly making waves, and you can expect [...]

We're switching things from our usual format today for the premiere of Ç86 , a brand spanking new compilation of bedroom-recorded music from across Japan. Chiba-based four piece möscow çlub conceived the comp as a celebration of coming of spring and the heterogenous universe of DIY production technique. The sixteen artists and bands yield a diverse array of styles and sounds, encompassing various branches of post-punk, tasty bits of house, and a rainbow-flavored assortment of sample pop and include both familiar names and new discoveries. To save you some googling, here's the list, complete with linkage: möscow [...]

Presentamos la edición de marzo de Music Alliance Pact (MAP), iniciativa del blog escocés The Pop Cop , que compila canciones destacadas de músicos locales de más de 30 países, y de la cual Super45 forma parte desde hace más de 2 años. Este mes destacamos a Matías Cena & Los Fictions con su tema "Raíz", perteneciente a su flamante álbum Arauco Cajún . CHILE : Super 45 Matías Cena & Los Fictions - [...]
Click the play button icon to listen to individual songs, right-click on the song title to download an mp3, or grab a zip file of the whole 38-track compilation here . ARGENTINA : Zonaindie Yataians - What A Man's Got To Do Yataians is a Buenos Aires-based band with a rocksteady sound heavily influenced by Jamaican artists from the 60s and 70s, such as The [...]

El Music Alliance Pact es una comunidad con sede en 38 países y tienen como finalidad dar a conocer sus sonidos al resto del mundo, esta gran labor viene proponiendo alternativas musicales desde hace más de 3 años y SoTB es parte de ella. Es 16, sí, ha habido un retraso y voy a castigarme por ello. A disfrutar! Click the play button icon to listen to individual songs, right-click on the song title to download an mp3, or grab a zip file of the whole 38-track compilation here [...]

Este mês, o Music Alliance Pact traz um tema (e o vídeo), "The Strangest Friend", de uma banda de Coimbra que, apesar de "Drunken Sailors & Happy Pirates" ser já o seu terceiro álbum, é praticamente desconhecida no seu país, Portugal, para além daqueles poucos que seguem e divulgam com interesse e amor a nossa música. No entanto, a sua obra já lhes rendeu glórias em alguma imprensa internacional como, por exemplo, na revista francesa Les Inrockuptibles, o que é, como sabemos, sempre um grande passo para serem conhecidos e divulgados em Portugal. Com a [...]

Earlier this Year, I was contacted by Matthew Pollesel, the man behind long-running Canadian music blog i(heart)music . Matt had decided to give blogging a rest, and in doing so was looking for someone to take over the Canadian leg of the Music Alliance Pact (MAP), a monthly jaunt around the musical globe featuring contributions from bloggers all over the world, who put together a collective post featuring their favourite new music from home. I was honoured to be asked, and proud to join the MAP ranks. Today's marks my initial contribution, and MAP's debut outing on Quick Before [...]

Enjoy the musical stylings of Sterling EQ.Click the play button icon to listen to individual songs, right-click on the song title to download an song, or grab a file of the whole compilation here . SOUTH AFRICA : Musical Mover & Shaker! Sterling EQ - Bach's Kittens At Play Sterling Electric Quartet, affectionately known as Sterling EQ, burst on to the scene with their genre-defying musical style [...]

The delicate, precious sounds of Mike Nisbet represent Scotland in this month's Music Alliance Pact - he truly is an outstanding prospect. The Pop Cop's counterparts in Colombia, El Parlante Amarillo , made a neat video about this project which features an interview with our Mexican MAP blogger. Check it out here, señoras y señores: Click the play button icon to listen to individual songs, right-click on the song title to download an [...]

(c) Dominique Hammer Once again, we bring to you the most interesting new and free tracks from around the world, curated by 38 music bloggers with an eye on their local scene. In March, we are featuring the wonderful Giantree with their song Communicate from We All Yell , out on March 23 on monkey. ( listen and read more here ). Right-click on a song title to download an mp3, or grab a zip file of the whole 38-track compilation here . AUSTRIA: Walzerkönig [...]

Þá er komið að þeim tíma mánaðarins að músíkbloggarar víðsvegar um heiminn taka höndum saman og skella í eina alþjóðalega fimbulfærslu. Sem fyrr er allt á ensku (sem ætti nú ekki að vefjast fyrir nokkrum íslendingi) en tónlistin allavega og allskonar í öllum regnbogans litum og á mörgum framandi og skemmtilegum tungumálum. Click the play button icon to listen to individual songs, right-click on the song title to download an mp3, or grab a zip file of the whole 38-track compilation here . ARGENTINA : [...]
Click the play button icon to listen to individual songs, right-click on the song title to download an mp3, or grab a zip file of the whole 38-track compilation here . ARGENTINA : Zonaindie Yataians - What A Man's Got To Do Yataians is a Buenos Aires-based band with a rocksteady sound heavily influenced by Jamaican artists from the 60s and 70s, such as The [...]

SINGAPORE : I'm Waking Up To... Shelves - Star Alright The much-anticipated debut album by Shelves was released this month on both vinyl and digital , resurrecting not just the choicest cuts of Britpop and college rock, but the very essence of the 90s Singapore scene. Yet the record sounds anything but dated, with its clever balance of crisp melodies and generous distortion pointing the way forward for indie rock today. That vision [...]