Egotistical Gabber Death by sumitomo (Programming note: site is currently going through a lot of technical difficulties, and actually writing posts is a massive challenge. Might be a bit more inconsistent for the next few…uhhhh, days, I hope? Stay tuned) Look, we all get stressed out, and we need to deal with it in our…
This year is already feeling like a particularly strong one for Japan’s juke community, with plenty more to come. Yet Osaka outfit Satanicpornocultshop just went and dropped the first great front-to-back album of 2018. The Rise And Fall Of… doesn’t mark any massive departure from their usual sound, nor does it find them even pushing…
“Taker Giver Pool” offers another angle on producer Pavilion Xool’s sound. The young Tokyo-based artist has some swift moments in his catalog, but “Taker Giver Pool” unfolds the quickest of anything they’ve released yet. The beat just moves quicker, the whole song feeling all the more woozy because of Pavilion Xool’s use of pitched vocal…
There was a time, not all that long ago, that it felt like at least one new indie-pop gem surfaced out in Kansai on a weekly basis. I doubt the collective music fans of Osaka, Kyoto and beyond have moved on from their Sarah Records collections, but the pace certainly slowed down a little bit…
Aya Gloomy’s initial foray into music after joining up with Tokyo’s Big Love Records was to create a buzzing, unsettling number that gave just enough room for her singing to come through clearly, even if the whole song felt like it was being sucked into a whirlpool. Now she has her proper debut album out…