Today feels like the first summery day of 2016 in Tokyo, the sort of sunny weather outside your weather that makes you wonder why you chose a career forcing you to sit in front of a computer. Hopefully the temperatures and conditions hold up, because it would be ideal to put on Half Mile Beach…
The world is still coping with the sudden passing of Prince last week, and plenty of artists have shared their own tributes to him over the last few days. Over the weekend, Seiho honored his “eternal star” by teaming up with New Jersey artist Ehiorobo to create a woozy cover of “Adore,” complete with mid…
Inspired by a loosely porn-themed mix shared as a Dress Down Monthly Mix, producer Cool Japan…who shares a lot of demos!…created the just-over-seven-minutes-long “Do My Mind.” It starts as a slightly disjointed house track until it morphs into a full formed, shimmering house number where the odd little touches — an off-pitch vocal sample, an…
All artists have the subjects they keep coming back to, the thing that pulls out some of their best work every time. For producer Yoshino Yoshikawa, that might be cats. The latest in his feline–leaning collection of songs, “Dancing Cats” switches things up ever slightly by not being as outright chime-rich as other songs he’s…
If the sounds of that thing called the “city pop revival” are here to stay for at least another year and a half, then let’s put all of our mental energy into making sure Shiggy Jr. end up the main staple of this style represented on the radio. They aren’t a group that you sit…