Make Believe Mix For February 2012 Featuring Occult You, Seiho And Super VHS

[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/38329393″ iframe=”true” /] This month, the Make Believe Mix shuts the curtains and stays under the covers as we feature mostly bedroom artists from all over Japan…and beyond. The ability to make, record and distribute music by yourself has been great for artists who would otherwise never get exposure, and this scene has taken…

Reveiw: INNIT On February 11, 2012 At Osaka Nuooh Featuring MFP, Daisuke Tanabe And More

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…

Self-Promotion Plus: Talking To Seiho And Reviewing The Creams For The Japan Times

This week, I talked to the founder of Day Tripper Records and INNIT member Seiho about his debut album Mercury for The Japan Times. It’s only January so take this next bit with a little caution, but Mercury is my favorite album of the year so far, a madcap mash of jazz and electronic dance…

New Sugar’s Campaign: “Netokano”

[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpWCEIfvqzk”] The recent boom in electronic music in the Kansai area has thus far mostly been a story of individual producers, solo artists rapidly uploading new blasts of music to SoundCloud as fast as their Internet connection allows them to. Although a few places serve as gathering points for this scene – the parties put…