Kumon Plaza -- the nom de BOOM of Edmonton's Dylan Khotin-Foote -- is making some noise again after spending time with his alter-ego Happy Trendy. Good news, because KP's album Cliff was a beautiful essay into 64-bit electronica.
The new track "River Spot" goes back to the well with the video game aesthetic, but plays it a bit cooler, more minimal, so that you can't quite put your thumb on what game, if any, you might have heard the textures from. That wasn't the case with Cliff, which borrowed pretty noticeably from Zelda: Ocarina of Time, among others, and admitted as much with track titles like "Saria's Song."
You can download the new track as part of the Crash Symbols / BEKO DSL mixtape, or you can get the track alone at Kumon Plaza's Bandcamp. And if you Twitter, hit up the man behind Kumon Plaza & Happy Trendy on the Twitterwaves. Stream the new song below, plus an old favorite from Cliff called "Kiwi Island."
"River Spot"
"Kiwi Island"
Fueled with Voodoo Doughnuts, Alcoholic Faith Mission
delivered to a rockin' crowd in Portland.
Those lucky enough to
enter the House of Blues Boston took a spacey journey
that felt like one long dream starting with opening act I Break Horses.
The student-filled O2 Academy in Manchester started heaving
forward the instant the visual art showed "The Cribs" on the backdrop.
