I talked to Mitsume for The Japan Times this week in regards to their very nice new album A Long Day, and now they’ve gone and shared another new song from the full-length (out today). “Objet” is one of the sparser songs from the album, the band making the most of space (nothing makes a…
Everything is coming up Foodman. His recently released Ez Minoku has gotten some welcome critical love (and is one of my favorites of 2016, for sure), while the wonky producer is also set to go on a European tour later this year. And now he has hooked up with Mad Decent sub-label Good Enuff…who also…
The weather — which dictates the sort of music I choose to listen to more than I’d like to admit — is pretty gloomy today. It stopped raining, but the sky is still grey in an smudged way that makes the idea of going outside seem ridiculous (also knowing it is probably stupid humid doesn’t…
Toyomu (or TOYOMU, probably should make a style guide for this blog) has been having himself quite a busy year. Souda, Kyoto is his fourth release of 2016, and that’s on top of live shows as far West as Tokyo (and not to mention that media attention). If each work of his has had a…
Based out of Okinawa, producer Hentonacyoyu makes juke music featuring a hearty dollop of jazz influence. That in and of itself isn’t noteworthy when placed in the context of juke as a whole — even within the Japanese juke scene, no shortage of artists go this way — but Hentonacyoyu does it very well, which…