New group Lucky Tapes – fronted by Kai Takahashi – have their debut EP out now, and here’s another taste of the laid-back group’s sound. “In Paris” is an especially Sunday-morning-in-bed-ready song, a slow groover of a number that adds sweet vocal dollops behind Takahashi’s love talk. Listen below.
Note: I’m going to SXSW for the next week! If you are around, find me and say hello! And with that, keep in mind posts will be a little less this week [more so than they already are!] and when they do go up they’ll be synched with Texas time. So this is what Kyoto’s…
Time for MAP! This month, we refuse to let the summer end by focusing on Takeaki Oda’s “Loop.” Hear it…and many more…below. Click the play button icon to listen to individual songs, right-click on the song title to download an mp3, or grab a zip file of the full 18-track compilation through Dropbox here. JAPAN:…
This blog is currently so young (and I’m still so new to life in Japan) that trying to carve out an identity proves to be tougher than originally imagined. Should I strictly write about contemporary artists, or should I take a broader look at Japanese music, including older acts? And how does mainstream Japanese music…
As part of Maltine Records recent stay at the new Red Bull Studio Tokyo, the netlabel had a few of the artists orbiting in their space collaborate on new songs. Tomggg and Hercelot were up first with “Greengum,” and now the second day’s participants share their creation. Pa’s Lam System and Parkgolf worked on the…
Amino_CH’s “Pi11” popped up on YouTube a little over a week ago, and has been bouncing around in my head ever since it first appeared in the ol’ feed. The style this Tokyo artist embraces is becoming quite normal, at least among more online-centric musical communities. She raps, but also plucks elements from indie-pop, dance-pop…
Noah has long collaborated with artists around the world via email — whether they be beatmakers or vapor-rappers — and despite physical distances, the end result tends to impress. Her latest digital correspondence comes with Montreal’s Johnny_Ripper on the Jona album, half the songs done by him and the other by her (though they feature…