Electronic Weekend: New tofubeats, Obutsudan-Sumino And OKLobby

Three songs to take you into the weekend (oh thank goodness it is here!). Let’s get into it: – Kobe’s tofubeats had a really busy 2013, and he appears to not be slowing down as the calendar turned over. “CHNGEYRHRT” though finds him stepping away from the nearly all-original sounds that dotted his music last…

Fogpak #5: Featuring Picnic Women, OKLobby, PNDR PSLY, CRZKNY And So Many More

Late last year, the electronic-music-from-all-across-Japan compilation Fogpak #4 came out, and it was a fantastic collection of digital music from all over this fine country. At 21 tracks, though, it could feel a little daunting, regardless of how much great music the folks behind crammed into it. Welp, Fogpak #5 dropped over the weekend and…

New OKLobby: Resort

When OKLobby appeared out of the Tokyo-bedroom-producer mist late last year, it initially seemed tricky to place what the young producer was doing. The name of the project, along with a debut EP called Resortworks, hinted that this outfit could be inhaling the same vaporwave vibes so many bedroom-based artists sucked in that year. Yet…