I don’t know how these kids do it, but the beat scene in Kansai has given rise to a group of young artists capable of just firing off tracks. So…here’s a collection of tracks from some of the best around. First off, Kyoto’s Madegg just doesn’t rest. Fresh off releasing a (very good) album on…
MFP. Photo by the author. I’m moving to Tokyo in April. This decision came together thanks to a dominoes-line chain of events – looming unemployment, original housing plans suddenly up in smoke, convenient apartment options popping up at just the same time. It also came about within the span of a week, scrambling up the…
INNIT, the Osaka party/collective, will hold their one-year anniversary event on February 11 (as someone who went to the last one, I urge all Osaka-based readers to go, c’mon!), and in advance of that they have released an EP featuring tracks from the artists set to perform at the special show. The collection – available…
Two new articles in The Japan Times worth reading – first, I reviewed Sapphire Slows’ debut EP True Breath. It’s pretty good! Read that one here. And on the left side of the page, I wrote about INNIT, Kansai’s fledgling electronic event that is bringing together so many great-sounding acts. I talked to a bunch…
Osaka-based event night INNIT is a name you will be hearing a lot more about in the more future, but for now the good folks behind the most forward thinking electronic music in the Kansai region (if not possibly Japan) have offered up a good introduction to what the INNIT sound is. In advance of…