Trekkie Trax had a pretty big 2016, the high-charged netlabel gaining more and more visibility across the board with their take on contemporary electronic styles. Now, it seems like more established names are taking notice. In the same way that Maltine Records — the community-building online entity that came up the generation prior) — and…
Another year draws to a close, and that means its time for the annual rush of year-end blog posts looking back on the year that was. And, again, I try to write an intro to this collection trying to say something original, about putting together lists and what it all means. But at this point,…
Now, I’m not a brave enough soul to say the mainstream J-pop scene has undergone a paradigm shift over the last two years — save for the ongoing band boom, the Johnny’s projects and middle-of-the-road idol groups of the country continue to soak up way too much space for music that is an afterthought —…