Diskotopia’s latest compilation feels a bit chillier than previous offerings from the Tokyo label, with more moments of unease cropping up alongside the usual body-moving flow. These aren’t new moods for anyone associated with the collective, but DSK F/W 2018-2019 Free Compilation comes off as more fitting for the coldest stretch of the years than…
Tokyo label Diskotopia has been releasing free compilations near the end of the year since 2014, and they have thus far been very strong collections gathering producers from and near their universe together. The Fall/Winter 2016-2017 Free Compilation continues that quality tradition, featuring co-founders A Taut Line and BD1982…and their joint project Greeen Linez, whose…
It’s almost the start of December and that means…oh, you probably know. I’ve written variations of that sentence a lot recently because a lot of great albums have not gotten a lot of longform attention around these parts, and you can add Greeen Linez luxurious Izu Street King to that pile. Hopefully more on that…
Diskotopia’s Matt Lyne returns with a new A Taut Line song, and it’s a tad disorienting. In a similar vein to his sweat-soaked summer number “In This Heat,” “Clouds At Night” feels surprisingly claustrophobic, a series of dizzying electronics woozing around the song’s main beat. It feels like a bad dream wrapped around a dance…
Tokyo-based label Diskotopia…read a good Japan Times profile this way…aren’t taking it too easy this summer despite pumping out music just waiting to play alongside an afternoon spent sitting on a beach towel. Matt Lyne, one of the imprint’s co-founders, produces under the name A Taut Line and has a new number online now, called…