Here you have three of the most important Japanese juke producers — two of its early advocates, plus a creator who consistently puts out the best stuff in the country AND helps offer a politicized space to showcase talent — working together on a series of releases where they play around with ideas over a…
Leave it to Japan’s juke scene to deliver an album inspired by Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition. Skip Club Orchestra’s latest — released on New Year’s Eve, making this (I think) the last 2017 collection I needed to catch up on — features 20 songs, all of them hovering right around the three minute mark….
The Atomic Bomb Compilation’s continued relevance isn’t so much the result of coincidences as much as the entire inspiration for this project’s existence taking up more of the frame with every passing year. Vol. 5 arrives in the middle of a summer featuring a news cycle featuring nuclear weapons…and threats for said devices to be…
The latest in Polish label Outlines’ groove series — previously highlighting DJ Fulltono and CRZKNY — zooms in on Skip Club Orchestra, another long-running figure in Japan’s juke scene. The two grooves here allow an artist who mostly works in quick bursts to expand on their style, both tracks leaning towards the sparser side (especially…
Skip Club Orchestra, the moniker adopted by the founder of Japanese juke imprint Dubliminal Bounce, creates something chilly on the just-released Amorphous Creatures EP. Which isn’t to discount the set’s ability to really get moving — from the first song, the bulk of this EP has moments where the beat overtakes everything (and on “A.C….