Mikeneko Homeless, once focused only on soba and getting money, have recently shifted to letting other singers shine over their bouncy music. Was the case with their last Maltine Records release, plus a rework of “Soba Ga Tabetai,” and now they’ve teamed up with idol Nagi Nemoto for “Purity,” a skeletal number that puts the…
Time for the second installment of MAP for 2016, featuring a special collaboration between one of Tokyo’s finest wonky trackmakers and a rising Taiwan-based producer. Listen to it…and many more…below. Click the play button icon to listen to individual songs, right-click on the song title to download an mp3, or grab a zip file of…
The music usually flowing forth from netlabel Trekkie Trax tends to be on the harder side, or at least designed to work best in a live setting. Producer Sleepwell, though, offers something a bit more heady on his new collection Never Ever, released last week via the imprint. It’s hardly Trekkie Trax’s big shift into…
Nagoya’s House Of Tapes has recently been exploring the softer side of his sound, moving a bit away from the punishing four-on-the-floor beats and tar-pit synths marking his early works in favor of brighter sounds. “Twinkle Colors” marks one of his bigger shift into this neon-bright direction yet, if the title didn’t give it away…
Redcompass is best known as the guy responsible for organizing the Fogpak series of compilations, which highlight burgeoning electronic artists from across Japan and abroad. His own work has popped up on those sets…and he’s DJed across Japan…but he recently shared a handful of original songs online, two of which played off of one another…