Producer De De Mouse’s signature sound is sliced-up vocals, the long-running artist taking split-second cuts of singing and turning them into syllabic candy. He’s just released a new EP, the Summer Twilight set, and this season he’s getting into the festival spirit. “Remember Night” is the opening number on the album, and De De Mouse…
Two of Japan’s finest juke makers dropped new albums during the same week — and that’s not even counting both of their contributions to Atomic Bomb Compilation Vol. 4, which they both played a big role in making happen. First up is Hiroshima’s CRZKNY, who follows up his politically charged contributions to that comp with…
Pa’s Lam System has been one of the…if not the…best electronic producer in Japan for the last five years. The highlights are…pretty insane: “Bit By Bit,” “I’m Coming,” “Like A Lady,” this HyperJuice remix that caused me to spill coffee on my computer once. That nobody in Japan or abroad has gotten them to produce…
It was only a couple of weeks ago that The Hair Kid shared “Hikikomori,” a Nakata-tinged twister. Now, the Hyogo-based artist has released two new songs via Maltine Records — packaged with four remixes as Plastic Inbox — showing off his funkier side. It starts off with “My Love Is Online,” a dazzling bit of…
Jesse Ruins called it a day earlier this year, but Nobuyuki Sakuma carries on with the harsher CVN project, which will release a new album called Frost on August 24. “Trash Eye (Second Cry)” is the first taste of it, and it is a harsh one, full of babies crying and shouting, sliced up and…