This one got lost in the New-Year’s-eve shuffle, but two weeks on it still goes strong so…Osaka’s Ryuei Kotoge created a lot of great music in 2014 (including the just-outside-our-top-20 Undo, Redo), and he closed out a productive 12 months with this six song set. It’s an affirmation of what he’s been doing for a…
What are you doing with your Friday night? If you are as cool a dude as me, you are spending it in your apartment getting mad at the New York Times and catching up with just-released Japanese music. Let’s listen to some new music together, shall we? – The cross-country duo of Ryuei Kotoge and…
Talk about nice timing – I bought Osaka producer Ryuei Kotoge’s new album undo.redo today, and later saw that he released a new two-song EP through online dance imprint Kool Switch Works called Strange. Opening number “Strange: Two” recalls what has been the dominant sound the label has released in the past, juke, although Kotoge’s…
So much electronic music has slithered out over the past few days, let’s spend some time catching up with three of the better tracks to pop up online from the Japanese scene. – Maltine Records at this point serves as a seal of quality as much as a label, as they tend to do a…
Osaka beatmaker Ryuei Kotoge – early INNIT contributor, Day Tripper Records signee – has a new album out on the horizon. Undo, Redo comes out in early July, but he has shared the first track from it. “Arc” is a shifty, shuffling number featuring synth washes and nimble percussion. It is a great first glimpse…