Nosaj Thing is the alter ego/production name of 22 year-old Jason Chung from Los Angeles, who creates some fascinating and relaxing electronic music. No pounding bass or glitchy blog-tricks here, just some old-fashioned modulating fun that wouldn't be out of place in a number of commercials and movie soundtracks I could think of off the top of my head. He was recommended to me by a DJ friend of mine and I listened to the tracks he sent over without really thinking about it, but once I got my hands on his HEALTH remix he had done a while back, I started paying more and more attention to the music until, by now, I admit I've fallen kind of in love with the music. When I can't pick what music I want to listen to while surfing the web, or doing this or that or a million other tasks, I always find myself coming back to his Views/Octopus EP (self-released on iTunes), and so should you.
According to his MySpace, he's working on a full-length right now, so be on the lookout for that.
Ok so The Jim Yoshii Pile-Up isn't exactly "new" (they've released three albums already), but it can't be argued that they're anything but still relatively unknown, so I might as well post about them. I first heard about them when I interviewed Xiu Xiu's Jamie Stewart about two and a half years ago, and he mentioned the band to me when we chatted after the interview. A couple months later, when he sent over his "Best of 2005" list to me to post, The Jim Yoshii Pile-Up's album Picks Us Apart, and so of course I had to check it out. The album was filled with filled with your normal stories of heartbreak and depression, except coming from someone with a voice as emotional and honest as you would expect from someone that Jamie would like so much. I have no idea what the band has been doing since that album release (or if they're even still together), but hopefully something will come up soon.
