“Collapse” seems to be a word popping up with a bit of frequency in the Japanese electronic music scene this year. Seiho’s recently released Collapse is the most obvious, an album that gets its name from a deliberate move to break down his style and rebuild. Nagoya’s House Of Tapes latest album is called End…
Ujico (or, Snail’s House at other times) has long hop-scotched between a hyper-kawaii sound and something a bit more polished, full of intricate piano arrangements. The recently released Dream Castle EP is the finest balance the young producer has stuck yet between the two. The synths on songs such as the title track and “Dream…
Today is a day where we zero in on artists who are having a productive 2016, it seems. Tominaga released the lovely electronic escape Echoes Of Megaliths earlier this year, and the Saitama-based producer is prepping a new album called The Water Dreams The Fire. “Call” is the first taste of the collection, a bouncy…
His second EP of the year, Hideo Nakasako enters trippier territory on the ADAM EP. If the Phonograph collection turned more inward, ADAM builds on that feeling, but gets a tad more experimental about it all. The three songs here introduce new sounds to Nakasako’s sonic approach — “Three-Forths” filters in Indian percussion alongside house…
The Picnicdisco project has been going since 2010, and has released a lot of material in that time (this album is a good [and available!] entry point, and features a song called “Haino Keiji Is Playing At My House” so you know it’s good). They are pretty madcap, jumping from synth-guided numbers to rap bouncers…