As the days pass by, Kyoto beatmaker Madegg’s new album gets closer and closer to coming hitting stores. The young music maker has been gradually sharing tracks from Kiko, and his latest glimpse at the album is the lovely, blinking “Stripes,” complete with title-appropriate video above. The star sound, as it tends to be in…
When OKLobby appeared out of the Tokyo-bedroom-producer mist late last year, it initially seemed tricky to place what the young producer was doing. The name of the project, along with a debut EP called Resortworks, hinted that this outfit could be inhaling the same vaporwave vibes so many bedroom-based artists sucked in that year. Yet…
Hiroshima footwork creator CRZKNY caught our attention in 2012 by releasing two EPs of music with a political bent – the young producer created unsettling, sample-heavy tracks acting as anti-nuclear-power music. Yet CRZKNY isn’t purely a political activist disguised as a footwork maker – he has also released EPs of songs just meant to get…
The album in Japan had an interesting 2012 – music sales continued to fall, while sites like SoundCloud and Bandcamp made it easier than ever for artists working on a micro level to get their music out to the people. For me personally, the past 12 months was more defined by individual songs rather than…