Seiho posted this new song, “So Far,” yesterday, and it is definitely worth your time. It is the first track of his in a while not to feature some sort of mutated vocal sample – here, he just lets his electronics warp themselves around into a really colorful beat. Listen below.
One of the most pivotal releases to come out of the Japanese juke scene — primarily in terms of exposing new ears to that world (it’s the one I first really remember getting a lot of people talking about Japanese juke) — was Kool Switch Works Witchcraft compilation back in 2012, a set of juke…
This isn’t the first album Boys Age released in 2016, and you sure can bet it won’t be the last, given the duo’s typically prolific output over the last few years. But Pangea finds the Saitama pair refining the hazy, easy-going rock they’ve been exploring over the past year, with the most up-tempo moments (“King,”…
I’ve been sitting on this one for, like, five days, because I Keep waffling on what to even say about it. This collection comes form a set of names revolving around Wasabi Tapes who have been making gleefully chaotic sounds for about a year now, and Gargoyle takes it up another notch. It’s a rush…
There’s something thrilling about an artist just being entranced by specific sounds, and then seeing what they construct with them. For the past three-so years, I’ve mostly been drawn to the experimental side of this fancy — Foodman, Wasabi Tapes, Taquwami, etc. Yet this feeling manifests itself frequently in the more traditional dance community too,…
Everything in “Dimples” sounds a split second away from collapsing in on itself. Composer Rakia’s latest starts off with sparse keyboard notes that initially give off some serious Flau vibes, but that gives way right after as the beat skitters off and everything gets whirled up. A lot happens across “Dimples,” including some hi-def vocal…
The moment that “Danqa,” a song from “17 y/o Japanese” Ibo Ibo Ruukern out in Nagasaki, really gets interesting comes just before the first minute arrives. Up until that point, “Danqa” is a perfectly fine bit of wavy pop, in the same orbit as fellow Japanese producers such as Parkgolf and Kosmo Kat (or non-Japanese…