A little earlier this year, I wrote about Mcpero, a rapper here in Tokyo who released a very nice EP. I interviewed her for a larger piece, which was all good, and I was determined to keep tabs on this rising hip-hop star. Except I missed a huge chunk of her career – as Ian…
Kobe’s Tofubeats has always been a bit scatterbrained — dig in to any of his pre-majors albums on Bandcamp or even his DJ Newtown work and you’ll find him going off in a billion directions, jumping from rap to acid-house to slow ballads on each song. Yet since gaining access to a major-label and being…
Considering the general cute bend so much electronic music out of Japan right now takes, it’s really nice to have the blackhole sounds of Osaka’s Yullippe around as a counter of sorts. She has been creating industrial-tinged tracks for a while now, releases such as Loop Bell and the song “Black Moon” suffocating listeners with…
Well it…certainly is. Introduced via +Ano(t)raks lovely Plus One compilation, Marquee Beach Club have gone on to share a few…cough…new songs. One is a bit overly dramatic, but “New Song” makes up for it by being a skippy number, featuring vocals glazed with the slightest electronic edge, adding just a dab of welcome unease to…
“Long Goodbye” is a simple one, but like a lot of the better indie-pop that comes out of Kansai, has an ability to really stick around in your head if you let it. Hayato Narahara (of the band Kanatato) creates an easygoing groove — one recalling the resort-side tempo of City Pop, though the recording…