The highlight of Hiroki Yamamura’s newest, The Game Of Life EP, comes right in the middle on the title track, one of the finest pieces the Osaka producer has put together in his hyper-speed-paced catalog. Featuring the same up-tempo pace of his better juke cuts from recent years, Yamamura drops in off-season steel drum hits…
Despite all the tags swirling around them — psych-rock, Burger Records, Saitama — Boys Age really excel at writing laid-back rock numbers designed for staring at clouds and maybe loafing about your living room. This is the mode where they can always fall back on and come up with something solid, always made a bit…
Golden Week ended yesterday, meaning today was a return to normalcy — read: work — for most people across Japan. Osaka producer Nite Body’s “Void Hawaii” might be a night chaser to what I’m sure was a rough return to the office — it’s a breezy instrumental number that, as the title hints at, aims…
If you follow this blog, you definitely don’t need a primer on the current “city pop revival,” and how that word has been glued to a lot of projects that don’t really touch on what the Bubble-Era-genre was all about sonically (let’s not even get to the spiritual side). Yet during this phase — and,…
We are inching closer and closer to the release of Seiho’s Collapse, out via Leaving Records on May 20, and Thump has shared another song from the fractured collection called “Exhibition.” Similar to “Peach And Pomegranate” before it, this is a jagged affair building up to a release that bursts the song apart, only for…