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Mike Gao’s Glitchy, Bass-Heavy Sun Shadows Out Today
If you're in LA today, you might notice strange Sun Shadows cast on the sidewalk and odd noises echoing through the streets. Mike Gao's new album drops today, and it's...
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Q&A with Mike Gao: Nerding It Up With LA’s Doctor of Beatmaking
Mike Gao wears many hats. And all of those hats are intimidating.
He's a producer of stuttering electronic hip hop beats fit for the finest MCs. He's a music...
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Artist of the Week: LA Electro Inventor Mike Gao
All the votes are in, and Mike Gao i is MTV Iggy's Artist of the Week!
Mike is equal parts is equal parts musician and inventor. When he's not busy dropping stuttery...
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Bands We Like: DJ, Producer, Maker of Digital Instruments Mike Gao
Builder of machines.
Mike Gao is equal parts musician and inventor. Seriously, he's like the freaking Thomas Edison of experimental hip hop.
Aside from releasing...
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Jin Akanishi, AKB48, And Other Japanese Musicians Tweet About The Quake
It appears -- knock on wood -- that all of our favorite musicians from Japan are safe, despite the recent record earthquake.
Just to be sure, we hit up some of their...
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Japanese Producer Kan Sano Releases a Tribute to Northern Japan
One for Northern Japan
We recently introduced you to Japanese producer Kan Sano, who we found through his work with Project: Mooncircle.
A fan of jazz samples, Kan...
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Party at SXSW with South Korea’s Idiotape
If Cut Copy (not from Zonoscope but from Lights & Colours) , Daft Punk, and Chromeo had a South Korean baby, they would beget the SXSW-bound, funkatastic, celebratory...
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Warm Indie Rock From Italy’s The Vickers
They don't seem like nice kids judging by the cover of their sophomore LP Fine For Now, but The Vickers' sound is warm as a sunny Tuesday mornin.
They're also not a...
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Chill Friday One-off Track from Kobe, Japan’s Kan Sano
Yes you, Kan.
The name Kan Sano keeps popping up on compilations filled with nasty beats. Most recently, I saw him on Project: Mooncircle's thematic comp The Moon...
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Japan’s Miila and the Geeks Have Six Gritty Rock Songs For You
In the age of shoegaze and light grids, musicians often forget: you don't have to do much to make tons of noise.
Japan trio Miila and the Geeks are case in point. The...
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Are Japanese Metal Legends Boris Going Pop?!
Face-melting rock trio Boris have released sixteen studio albums over the years. They've recently announced that they'll release two more on April 26 on Sargent...
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Bands We Like: Japan’s Milch of Source Can Only Be Described as “Spaz-core”
Wanna know why??
Trust Japan to combine the most disparate genres into a new form of music, and then feed that new form a bunch of acid. Ryoma Maeda, aka Milky Chu,...
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Jin Akanishi Live in Times Square: Behind-The-Scenes Peek!
You’ve waited and waited, and finally it’s time to see your favorite J-pop star in MTV Iggy Presents: Jin Akanishi Live in NYC!
But not yet! First, you get to go...
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Shanghai’s Pairs Make Beautiful Noise Together
Shanghai-based Australian-Chinese duo Pairs have been assaulting the streets and clubs of their city with their inspired approach to making noise for almost a year...
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Shugo Tokumaru’s Single “Malerina” Will Brighten Your Day
Once again, ShugoTokumaru has sprinkled some glorious indie pop joy on your crappy day.
"Malerina," off his upcoming album Port Entropy is a mandolin-happy indie...
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Artist of the Week: Russian Beat Maker Pixelord, with Q&A!
Insults! Accusations! Tempers! Rabid homicidal anger! Why, it's just another MTV Iggy Artist of the Week competition.
This week, Russian electro producer Pixelord...
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Bands We Like: Go Chic’s Hostile Dance Punk From Taiwan
The three ladies (and one dude) in Taipei, Taiwan's Go Chic don't seem to care about much besides making raw electro music and effing sh** up. Besides that, it seems...
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Bands We Like: Russia’s Pixelord Remembers the Best Part of Video Games
You have to admit, video game music just hasn't been the same since the early days of Nintendo.
That's why a whole host of programmers/producers recently started...
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China’s Post-Punkers Re-TROS To Tour With Gang of Four
Australia! Prepare to have your face rocked off with cold post-punk fire!
Re-TROS, Beijing's masters of dark, lacerating punk, have been asked to join UK O.G.s Gang...
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Bands We Like: Modish J-Rockers Molice
Molice is cool. One name frontwoman/guitarist Rinko alternates between deadpan and passionate vocals and the band's modish guitars and funky bass create a moody and...