New Sugar’s Campaign: “Netokano”

[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpWCEIfvqzk”] The recent boom in electronic music in the Kansai area has thus far mostly been a story of individual producers, solo artists rapidly uploading new blasts of music to SoundCloud as fast as their Internet connection allows them to. Although a few places serve as gathering points for this scene – the parties put…

INNIT It Great: INNIT Puts Out New Compilation, Avec Avec To Release EP On Mush Records, Life Swell

INNIT, the Osaka party/collective, will hold their one-year anniversary event on February 11 (as someone who went to the last one, I urge all Osaka-based readers to go, c’mon!), and in advance of that they have released an EP featuring tracks from the artists set to perform at the special show. The collection – available…

OMEGABOY Keeps Truckin’: “Babyrousa” And “Night1”

Osaka’s OMEGABOY has been keeping himself busy – he kicked of 2012 with a handful of intriguing tracks, and a few weeks on he isn’t stopping. He’s posted a few new tracks to his Bandcamp, highlighted by “Babyrousa” which does away with vocals entirely in favor of pure dance, the whole thing pulsing with the…

You And: Miii

Man, kids today, I tell you. Tokyo-based producer Miii was born in 1992, which is one of those mind-numbing realizations someone like me (80’s baby represent) that makes me do an existential double take, like noticing a nose hair or laughing at a Mike And Molly joke. Yet once one gets over the youth behind…