It’s a little too early to start celebrating the decade in music, but Soleil Soleil’s EQ works as a nice cap to a stretch of time that saw the Kansai electronic scene just flourish. The Osaka producer orbited around parties like INNIT at the start of the 2010s, first releasing music under the name OMEGABOY…
Soleil Soleil is closing out August nicely with two new dance tracks apt for pre-sunset evenings and pleasant temperatures. The Osaka producer has long created great house from pop samples, and “Medicine” excels at delivering energy. It’s simple, but Soleil Soleil knows how to use basic ingredients to create something rollicking, and in the case…
Given how everything sounds vaguely tropical in 2017 — well, that or totally grey — it’s weird thinking back on how Osaka’s Soleil Soleil was so ahead of this trend. If he was outside Asia, he’d be Kygo! However, the Kansai artist is always a few steps ahead of the sounds clogging festival grounds, and…
Osaka’s Onsen Records returns with Onsen Compilation #3, a relatively quick but solid collection of electronic music featuring a few familiar faces and new names. Label head U-Z takes a stab at “Hip-Hop,” a wobbly number featuring verses from Darrion Parker, while the back half of the comp leans towards instrumental hip-hop cuts, a hit…
The city sits at the center of Japanese life in 2016, as the number of people moving to major metropolitan centers keeps growing while the countryside — and even mid-size cities — see populations dwindle, once bustling shopping arcades reduced to shuttered-up artifacts. Music, accordingly, has shifted towards a more urban crowd. This has been…