If you require official releases, whether they be digital packages or physical units, it would seem like Japanese producer Taquwami has been pretty quite for some time though. But actually, he’s just been sending music out either onto SoundCloud for, like, a day or dropping songs in other corners of the Internet…like file-sharing site Mediafire….

One of the most interesting points about chillwave lost in the race to post new tunes to blogs is the idea of it being “recession music,” how the still-massive financial crisis coupled with all sorts of other bad stuff caused 20-something musicians to turn to bedroom-recording. That narrative often seems lost in 2011, replaced by…