When you read this, I will probably be in an airplane heading back to Japan. Thus, posts are still gonna’ be a little sporadic. Anyway, here is a new one from Madegg called “Float Ring.” Listen below!
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I’ve been trying to find decent Japanese hip hop for a long-ass time now, but it’s no easy task despite the genre sorta sitting out in the open. The mainstream music establishment doesn’t embrace hip hop as much as they try to appropriate, giving artists songs with some light rhyming or maybe throw a turntable…
Happy Thanksgiving! Here’s Osaka producer Tomoyu with “All Hope Is Gone,” a rattling number sure to give you plenty of good vibes on Turkey Day. “Unsettling” is a word I love to roll out, and “All Hope Is Gone” delivers that feeling plenty, fueled by icy drum machine patterns and (especially) the way the voices…
The world emamouse has crafted over dozens of releases becomes more inviting with each visit, like if Narnia was built from wonky synthesizer notes and echoes of denpa song. For me, a huge part of that is that nothing else sounds quite like what you’ll encounter on Black place on the edge, and at a…
Seeing as how Japan is currently enjoying a real obsession with nostalgia (and, honestly, seems like this holds true for a lot of places in 2018), the throwback project Bicco Beat releasing a track titled “Nostalgic Days” seems a little too on the nose. But at least they managed to make something on the pleasant…
The latest release from the team of Poncho and Casino Tart looks at the same track from four different angles. The track “Stars Are Never Linking” finds the Osaka juke duo crafting a dewy number featuring a sentimental vocal hook and all sorts of jittery details. The four “phases” of it present on this EP…
Radio Friends have released a few songs here and there over the past Spring, but now they’ve corralled those tunes into two (very brief) EPs. We’ve written about the indie-pop loving group’s songs “Sometimes” and “Want Of Order” before, and now both track have been blown up into EPs with one new song tacked onto…