The career arc of Shiina Ringo isn’t like your typical artist’s. Ringo started her career as a solo musician, crafting some of the early 2000’s most forward thinking and best albums (of anywhere in the world). Yet she then decided she wanted to be part of a band and formed Tokyo Jihen who, despite having…
New month, new MAP! Go on to see who we chose this month, and to hear a bunch of other great tunes from all over the globe. Click the play button icon to listen to individual songs, right-click on the song title to download an mp3, or grab a zip file of the full 29-track…
Sweet, another opportunity to tell you to go get your hands on spazzkid’s Desire, which might very well be my favorite non-Japanese album of 2013 so far. OK, got that out of the way…one of Tokyo’s most intriguing home-based producers i-fls has gone and made an unofficial remix of spazzkid’s “Getting To Know You,” transporting…
Another week comes to a close and – confession – this one was a super-busy one around these parts. So much good stuff came out…tough to keep up! Anyway, one thing that sorta slipped by was this live version of a new Salyu X Salyu song, so let’s savor it over the weekend. Remember when…
“Goodbye to the hackneyed ‘beats’!!!!!” So goes the last sentence of Canooooopy’s description of his newest album, Polymorphism Vs. Valleystayers. Confrontational statements are not a common sight in the Japanese music scene…at least not ones broadcast publicly…yet here we have a producer who has been gaining steam online over the past few months throwing at…