Info
- Artist:: MoliquL
- Album:: Into the Night
- Year:: 2014
- Label:: Flawless World
- Catalog:: FWDR-007
Track Ratings
| # | Title | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Into The Night | ★★ |
| 2 | Loom | |
| 3 | Into The Night (St.Classics Remix) | ★★ |
| 4 | Loom (Lost Children Remix) | ★ |
Log
2025-10-31
★★ into the night takes a while to build into something good, but when it does… if just common blessing good
loom: why does it have a dialup modem partway through?
★★ into the night st.classics remix, and i guess i could say the same thing here, though i think it brings in more elements over the course of the song. he really knew what he was doing!
★ and the loom remix is nice too
…and that’s all the flawless world!
so, what did we learn?
- he really cut back his expenses when running this label. digital-only releases, partnering with electronic musicians so as to not have to rent out studio time for anything more than vocals, having a generic LP label-like cover for nearly every release – complete with fake dot for the spindle hole!
- i have to assume that he was influenced by labels like Hyperdub for the visual design, though their records still got pressings…
- there was also an “Usagi-Chang Studio” for recording and mixing that existed at one point… i’m not sure if it was a dedicated physical location though – it doesn’t look like it produced enough to be sustainable if so
- the only notable exception to me is still Misswonda – In Flawless (2011), since he went all out for that release: writing it, producing it, giving it a full cd release and as a two-disc set too!
- she deserves it though.
- and i think the downtempo atmosphere fits her voice so much more than Misswonda – Wonderful Tangent (2005) ever did
- (god, automatic supper fucked the tone on talking of girl so bad…)
- did he see this as his finest work, then? admittedly, the production is a good bump more polished than Sonic Coaster Pop – SUPER MIRACLE CIRCUIT (2004), even if that one absolutely rearranged my brain chemistry and sent me down the usagi-chang rabbit hole to begin with
- whereas this one smoothly slides into the way my brain chemistry already was configured
- (god, in flawless is so good… the more i listen to it the more it grows on me)
- she deserves it though.
- i can’t seem to find a solid association chain for some of the artists on here. i think that some of them shared labels or compis with other usagi-chang bands, but others feel entirely unrelated. maybe this is just a new batch of people that he reached out to, for one reason or another? or was he accepting submissions?
- eh, something to consider once i get back to my picopop conspiraboard that scares the hos
- it seems like he also abandoned the shibuya-kei aesthetic for a more edm-influenced one about a half-decade after capsule made his hard pivot to electropop with capsule – FRUITS CLiPPER (2006). which is understandable: it’s not healthy to draw from the same font forever, and shibuya-kei had a pretty long run as subgenres go
- wait did suzuki get to Kero Kero Bonito first? i guess i never paid attention to the chronology, since kero kero bonito’s quite popular now, but it seems like why aren’t you dancing was their first on-label release
- it’s things like this that make me wonder if he was also using this label to foreground new artists
- i think, if i remember right, he’s still doing that to this day, but by acting as an event promoter. at least, if those twitter / instagram profiles i once saw are the same guy. it’s really hard to tell from the outside, and i might be one of the very few westerners who cares so deeply about this scene, and to top it all off i’m shy lol