The always musically fertile Kansai region houses two producers responsible for a pair of 2015’s best releases — Soleil Soleil and In The Blue Shirt — and the two released new works tonight, pretty close to one another. Great timing! Soleil Soleil’s “She Keeps Me Warm” is on the sparse side, the house-loving producer seemingly…
The blog Odd Castles has been sharing great, SoundCloud-centric mixes and songs for a while now, but in recent times has morphed into what they describe as “a label/collective.” The new Below Your Halo compilation puts the spotlight on a lot of very talented artists…Ulzangg Pistol! No Rome!…though for the purposes of the Make Believe…
I don’t go out to as many live shows as I used to, partially because I’m trying to be more responsible with money (ahhhhhh, the days where I would pay the equivalent of $40 for a taxi to go home because I was sleepy…so young! So stupid!) but also because in general it is easier…
It feels like Kyoto has seen an increase in artistic activities in 2014, and here comes another new label to further drive that point home. Nenene Label is the latest upstart to jump in the game, and they are off to a nice start with their first release, which gathers three artists together to share…
Talking City 1994 is a very talented Osaka-based band, but the individual members are insanely talented too. Soleil Soleil has been creating fidgety dance music of all sorts over the last few years and has probably been the most visible individual player in the group. Yet right up there is the band’s guitarist Ryo Arimura,…