Maki Goto is a real heater. She can jam too and has performed for a couple Japanese pop-bands in her young career. Born on Sept 23, 1985 in Edogawa, Tokyo, Japan. She is a Japanese pop princess currently signed to the sub-label Rhythm Zone under the Avex Trax label.
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Powers/Abilities: Binary Girl has the ability to split herself into two bodies. Both of these bodies are controlled by one mind. While she has mastered the ability to take in sensory data from two bodies and do complicated physical activities with the two bodies, she is unable to speak out of only one body at a time. As such, when she wants to speak with one body, the words are said by both, simultaneously. In addition, Binary Girl is an impressively well trained martial artist.
You may have noticed that it's been a minute or two since we've updated the blog. Well, I'll put to rest any fear you have that we stopped blogging.
WE ARE BACK, and we're going to keep writing as much as ever.
Two things have changed, which I'll address here.
#1. We've been removed from The Hype Machine index. It sort of catalyzed this little break that we took. Basically, we're breaking their rule of being 'a label', and therefore can't be listed on their site anymore. Its a bummer. I'm sure a lot of you found this site through Hypem, and they've done a great job introducing people people to Binary over the last year. I'm not sure we have any more commercial interests than any other music blog that they index, but we are breaking a rule, and these are the consequences.
So, it made us stop and think about what the blog should be. Do we post about Binary too much? Should we only post about Binary? Etc etc...
The conclusion we came to is that the blog is exactly what it should be. It's our avenue to introduce you guys to the music we love. Its our place to express ourselves and our emotions, both through writing, visually, and through the music. When we post about Binary music, its because we love it just as much as anything else we post. Don't expect the blog to change. We are here to stay!
#2. The thing that caused us to get noticed by Hypem is that we're moving the blog to a dedicated Binary website. We've been constructing it for some time, and now its live and good to go!
It's a rad site that should make following Binary really easy and fun. The blog will now be located there, so all you guys should change your URLS, bookmarks, bloglists, and RSS feeds to point over to
http://wearebinary.com/blog
And so, as an ode to changes and growing up. Here's a song called 'Changes', that is an all-time favorite of Binary's.
Chicago's Only Children were first featured here on Binary with their fantastic remix of Hey Champ's 'Cold Dust Girl'. They're just one of a handful of acts from the windy city that seem to be developing a real core of talented, traditionalist dance producers. These are not your average bloghouse wannabes. Between these guys and Bit Funk alone, I think the Chicago dance scene can rest easy.
I'm very excited today to be premiering the first track from their new EP. Its a very nice rework of Prince's classic "When Doves Cry". There's just enough of the original in it to make people get excited, but in reality, this track is a wholly original piece. It's built for a middle of the night groover set, and I can imagine this track getting passed around to DJs all over.
If you're into it, and want to find out more about how to get ahold of the whole EP, just head on over to Only Children's Soundcloud Page.
Disco flavored tracks can at times come across as very cold, as often they're sparse and filled with icy reverb. Much like with their remix of Hey Champ, Only Children craft a track here that feels incredibly warm. I wish I had a better descriptor, but warm is just the best word here. The fat, heated bass does the trick and really pulses the song along.
I'm not sure whether or not they were going for a specific emotion or vibe here, but I think they've achieved a pretty unique feel with this song. They've managed to take Prince's otherworldly howling, and place it within a song that is wrought with sexual tension already. The result? Well, a song that'll make a dancefloor seem pretty desperate.
There's a level of mystery and fantasy, mostly due to the pleading, almost primal nature of the vocals. I think the picture above completely illustrates what this feeling LOOKS like. Listening to the song I can't help but get lost in a dream of faceless bodies, contorting around in places I've never been before.
Great track... Once in a while we gotta give you guys something to get everyone a little sweaty right? Go pick up the whole EP, and as I mentioned, keep your eyes out on the talent thats brewing quietly in Chicago.
TONIGHT! We're excited to announce a new event series called The Break. Binary has teamed up with dubFrequency, Danceism, and Gotta Dance Dirty to bring together some of the brightest young stars in LA for a brand new event. We'll be doing a bi-weekly event on the rooftop of the Standard Downtown (completely underused outside of the summertime daytime pool parties... There is NO place cooler than that rooftop at night).
The events kick off tonight, highlighted with DJ sets from ASAA, Bones, and Binary guys Alfa and LexiconDon. It promises to be a joyous kickoff night and one not to be missed.
This song feels like the right track to kick the party off. Something feels special. The air is warm, the shorts are getting shorter. Feels like time for some drug fueled aggression music. A lot of time and planning has gone into putting these groups together. Its a special collection of minds and talent, and it feels like time to let loose and celebrate what The Break is all about: Living it up in SoCal.
Heart Attack: Let it flow through your veins. Let it invade your brain. By the end of the track you'll for sure find yourself wanting to come to the rooftop tonight. LexiconDon's DJ sets are pretty much guaranteed to do 1 thing, put a huge smile on your face. Thats what The Break is at its core. Losing the pretentiousness thats all over LA and just get back to the basics of good people, good fun, and good music.
We're in Miami tonight, and really excited about playing a show as NightWaves with some really great up and coming acts. WVUM and NightDrive productions are putting on a show during the WMC festivities for all those people that aren't so interested in raving out. NightWaves will be performing alongside Nite Jewel, Tanlines, and MillionYoung. You can get all of the details by going to the Facebook invite.
Miami feels like a natural home for us. This environment inspired a lot of our sound and style. While SoCal has a lot of these elements, there's something about Florida that captures the romantic, tropical spirit that NightWaves embodies. I'm thinking its going to be a special show.
A cut from their EP. This Memoryhouse track 'The Waves' is the perfect soundtrack to the last 2 days of my life. We're back on the road, heading from Austin to Miami for our show tomorrow night, and the drive has been nothing but dreamlike. Memoryhouse is a part of a group of bands and people that we seem to be more and more intertwined with, so it seems fit to do a post about them. We posted a remix that MillionYoung did for them, and ever since, its felt as if all of our paths were leading in the same direction. Oddly enough, I've had this song sitting in my 'to blog' list for quite some time. Only when I heard it as the sun rose yesterday did I feel like I had to write about it right away. It was all just too beautiful of a moment to pass up.
If you don't have the EP, please go find a way to support Memoryhouse, they are a real talent that I expect to be hearing a lot more of soon. Hit them up on myspace.
Why this song? Because it reminds me of taking weekend trips to Cape Cod with my father when I was young. I rarely hung out with kids from my school when I was young. Every weekend I would get into his beat up Toyota Celica and we would drive the hour long drive to the Cape. We'd get on our small sailboat Ashtabula, and he'd take me out into Buzzards Bay and teach me to sail. We'd sail to various harbors around the bay and stay for the weekend, returning back home on Sunday night. We did this on almost every weekend we could (weather permitting) until I was almost in high school. Looking back this is a little odd, but it felt pretty normal at the time. Every kid had a different life, this was just mine.
What those weekends gave me though, was a hell of a lot of time in the car, and on the boat, to daydream. I think I listened to my Nirvana - Nevermind cassette so many times that Territorial Pissings actually started to sound like Territorial Pissings. There wasnt much to do but listen to music, read, and think. And so I thought a lot. Usually about whichever girl I was madly in love with at the time.
This brings me back to this roadtrip, and most roadtrips for that matter. They ALWAYS put me back into that mindset. There's nothing like a long carride during the daytime to blur the lines between the waking and sleep world. Dreams become more lucid and hopes and wishes become more emotional and real. Falling asleep and dreaming about a pretty girl that I miss... or a girl from a time long ago... or one that doesn't exist... its something I do a lot.
This roadtrip just seemed to be a one long daydream. A tangled mess of sweet smelling hair, sunkissed skin, and soft eyes. Sometimes you wake up with an ache in your stomach just because you've just lost something that wasn't even there. I can try my best to describe it, but I suspect that you know exactly what I'm talking about. A 10 second glimpse of a girl at a truck stop can be life changing on the road, when you're stuck in sleep purgatory.
Now... This song right here, sounds exactly like what sleep purgatory feels like.
Well, we are in Austin for SXSW right now. I wish I could write a bit more about the songs I'll be posting, but realistically, thats just not doable. There's far too much music, tacos, and beer to consume.
Binary is in Austin though. FULL FORCE. If you're wondering what we're up to, please head on over here, where you can see all of our shows.
A quick note about Lovelife. He's a former member of Ghosthustler, which was a band that was one of the first bands that took Kyle and I on the long musical journey that we started a few years ago. This song is pretty great. It makes me feel warm.
Maki Goto is a real heater. She can jam too and has performed for a couple Japanese pop-bands in her young career. Born on Sept 23, 1985 in Edogawa, Tokyo, Japan. She is a Japanese pop princess currently signed to the sub-label Rhythm Zone under the Avex Trax label. 
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Changes.
Disco flavored tracks can at times come across as very cold, as often they're sparse and filled with icy reverb. Much like with their remix of Hey Champ, Only Children craft a track here that feels incredibly warm. I wish I had a better descriptor, but warm is just the best word here. The fat, heated bass does the trick and really pulses the song along.
I'm not sure whether or not they were going for a specific emotion or vibe here, but I think they've achieved a pretty unique feel with this song. They've managed to take Prince's otherworldly howling, and place it within a song that is wrought with sexual tension already. The result? Well, a song that'll make a dancefloor seem pretty desperate.
There's a level of mystery and fantasy, mostly due to the pleading, almost primal nature of the vocals. I think the picture above completely illustrates what this feeling LOOKS like. Listening to the song I can't help but get lost in a dream of faceless bodies, contorting around in places I've never been before.
Great track... Once in a while we gotta give you guys something to get everyone a little sweaty right? Go pick up the whole EP, and as I mentioned, keep your eyes out on the talent thats brewing quietly in Chicago.
