Recorded For Japan

Recorded For Japan was a charity album (digital) with the proceeds going to the Red Cross helping the recovery and reconstruction effort in the recent major earthquake and tsunami in Japan in 2011. It also includes some really interesting and often great tracks from underground electro-pop and indie artists.

Highlights include Chairlift's cover of Propaganda's "The chase" which is space-y, bass-y and cool-y. Atmospheric heavenly synths amid a crunchy bassline melody. Acrylics' "Sparrow song" is also space pop, ethereal and atmospheric yet also fundamentally simple. This blog's favourites The Ice Choir also provide a delicious hard mix of "Two rings".

R. Stevie Moore is joined by members of MGMT for the psychedelic glory of "You are too far away from me" which drifts away after a fairly straight forward opening into a meander through widdly guitars, samples and space echoes. Its all good, and for a great cause of course, but the music was brilliant anyway, how could you resist it really?