It’s easy to scoff at the term “major-label debut,” but here’s where ties to a bigger imprint producer real-deal benefits for a bunch of folks. Tofubeats’ First Album wasn’t actually his first album, but it was his first official full length from Warner Brother’s Japan label UnBorde, and it was a frantic, YouTube-hole-like trip of…
Always great when one of Japan’s best young producers ends up working with/on a song made by a great artist outside of Japan…gives me a chance to shine deserved light on the non-Japanese musician. Spazzkid is a Los-Angeles-based producer who released one of my favorite album’s of 2013 – the earnest, dreamy Desire – who…
In case you didn’t know, Make Believe Melodies also has a Tumblr, where I write a bit more about J-Pop and non-Japanese music. A few weeks ago, I wrote about Desire, the new album from Los-Angeles-based artist spazzkid. Read that here. For those who aren’t going to click it – Desire has jumped up to…