Well, this is exciting — Kyoto’s Native Rapper, who has been making some of the best genre-hopping music out of Japan in recent memory, has teamed up with Trekkie Trax, and will release an EP through them next week. We could have just waited for Mass Maker to hit the download zone, but “Track Maker”…
The compilation album is where indie-pop netlabel Ano(t)raks shines brightest, gathering artists from all over the country to share a song highlighting their take on one of the most overpopulated genres in the country. Yet, critically, the label knows how to spot diamonds, and Azur features a strong set of indie-pop, from straight-up guitar numbers…
Man, let’s not even get into my productivity on this rainy Tokyo Monday…no greater feeling than spending a day researching something for a story your on deadline for only to realize “wait, this is the worst direction to take it” before starting over completely way too late in the day. Thankfully, Kyoto’s Native Rapper dropped…
Time for MAP, and we start the new year by showcasing one of Make Believe Melodie’s favorite new (to us at least) artists of 2015, Kyoto’s Native Rapper. Listen to him and many more songs below! Click the play button icon to listen to individual songs, right-click on the song title to download an mp3,…
Kyoto’s Native Rapper touches on a lot of sonic ideas that have pollinated on SoundCloud in recent years and have been embraced by a lot of other Japanese acts. The main intersection going on in “Water Bunker,” his newest song, is between the fizzy electro-pop&B of Tofubeats and the love of individual sounds…regardless of how…