New Towa Tei Video: “Alpha”
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Towa Tei keeps things pretttttty simple here.
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Towa Tei keeps things pretttttty simple here.
Kansai is still going strong when it comes to great electronic producers, and here’s another one to add to the ever-growing pile. Kyoto’s 4degC hovers around the recently returned Million Pavilions label, and has released an EP through them. His latest song, “Rush,” is a hiccuping number loaded with second-long vocal samples spilling over one…
Gauging the political intentions of music in Japan can be tricky, especially when you rely on Google Translate and Firefox extensions to figure out what’s going on. Plenty of artists can be direct about their stances, and in the wake of this year’s nuclear situation a handful of anti-nuclear-power songs appeared albeit far from the…
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