For All Time bleeds energy drink, but the most charming moments come when the guarana taste recedes ever so slightly and a softer side comes through. Lady’s Only has kicked around Tokyo’s club scene for a few years now, playing high-energy sets that refused to take a breather (with the four members of the project…
Revisiting the Japanese Juke & Footworks Compilation from 2012 — one of several hyper-vital comps put out around that time capturing Japan’s take on juke music — reminds of how many notables took part in that collection. Better still, the bulk of them are still going strong in 2018. Kaoru Nakano contributed a track late…
Leading off with a Bandcamp description isn’t going to win me a Pulitzer, but Inktrans’ profile simply saying “nostalgic!” is too good to pass up on. The four-song At Last. release offers some sweet melancholy via straightforward songs backed by far more fidgety electronic sounds. Opener “hjmr” sways back and forth, but it is the…
Le Makeup’s pivot from Bala-Club-indebted bangers to more reflective numbers came because of a renewed focus on everyday life, especially in times that often seem nigh apocalyptic. For the most part, Le Makeup has celebrated the small things and captured daily living, but sometime even that can push you towards some sort of reckoning. “Plea”…
America’s Orange Milk recently wrapped up a tour of Japan and, despite a few setbacks — mainly, the lack of Giant Claw — they put on a great set of experimental loopiness (well, at least at the Tokyo leg at WWW I attended). As they are central to the label as a whole, the performances…