Two of the three songs comprising Chains “Phase 1: Resent” have appeared over the last two months, one at a time. This advances Tokyo artist LLLL’s Chains project forward with the first EP in the series. We won’t dwell too much on “Dance & Kill” and “Loaded Gun,” a pair of songs we’ve written about….
Japan’s juke scene has been the most consistent over the last few years, receiving plenty of praise but never being pushed too far where it becomes a trend (when Hoshino Gen starts footworking, we can declare a state of emergency). And critically, the music remains strong as ever, artists out here offering a wonderful new…
Couldn’t we all take things a bit slower? Maybe that’s just the first week back working talking, but that was one of the initial draws of listening to producer Takeda Soshi’s SlowFusion, a two-song set inspired by “80’s late fusion that I listened to at the end of last year was good, so I made…
And we are back to (hopefully) regularly scheduled posting. Hoping to get up a “what we missed over the vacation” post soon, but first, some new Maltine. What better way to start 2017 than with a double does of diso-influenced electronic music from Maltine Records? Producer Bazz has been a contributor to the netlabel several…
#10 In The Blue Shirt Cyanotype And Sensation Of Blueness Across these two brief but busy releases, Osaka’s In The Blue Shirt transmogrified the familiar into alien forms. His approach to music remains the same — grab a line or a few from a song, whether it be an obscure cut or a global smash…