Japan’s juke and footwork scene can seem intimidating to dive into – the aptly titled Japanese Juke & Footwork Compilation collects 45 tracks from a wide range of producers serving up their take on the Chicago genre – but sometimes all it takes is one song to serve as a guide. Shokuhin Maturi A.K.A. Foodman’s…
I’ve never actually been to anything that could be considered a “rave,” so forgive the generalizations I’m about to make. I’ve always figured one major draw of a rave is the opportunity to just trance out from the world around you and get lost in a moment. Osaka producer Seiho’s newest song is called “I…
This Monday, Shibuya club Womb will host Out Of Dots, an electronic-music event featuring a stuffed lineup of Japanese artists creating futuristic tunes. There are a lot of artists performing at this shindig – enough to fill three floors, it looks like – so Out Of Dots has uploaded a compilation of these performer’s music….
“Brostep,” a bass-heavy style of dance music often just called “dubstep” in America to the annoyance of many, has turned into a powerful commercial music force in the West. Magazines like SPIN and Rolling Stone have written about this new wave of electronic-dance music, while festivals like The Electric Daisy Carnival pull in thousands of…
Japanese producer Taquwami told us last month that he sees himself as part of a digital scene. “I don’t really consider myself belonging to Tokyo’s scene – or any scenes in particular. I think it’s more about the Internet. There’s electronic music out there on the Internet that focuses more on beats than chillwave does,…