Tokyo producer Taquwami just uploaded a new track to the Internet, which means I must accept not going to bed early to post it. I’m OK with this. “T Eyes” features the same vocal-chopping technique that dotted last year’s great Blurrywonder, but whereas that album especially emphasized the skittering, here the chopped singing is balanced…
It’s a nice occurrence that Tokyo producer Taquwami’s mix for the website SSENSE, featuring a new song called “Hate Winter,” dropped during a weekend that featured Spring-like temperatures in Japan’s capital. “Hate Winter” closes out his almost-40-minute mix and is a lovely comedown, a slowly unfolding track full of layered vocal samples and some nice…
In his relatively brief career, Tokyo’s Taquwami has explored a lot of sonic ground. He’s made maximal sounds, fragile songs, sample-heavy dance numbers and heady tunes that sound like holding a particularly trippy seashell up to your ear. And that’s not even counting the directions he’s splintered off with his Occult You project. His latest…
Japanese producer Taquwami told us last month that he sees himself as part of a digital scene. “I don’t really consider myself belonging to Tokyo’s scene – or any scenes in particular. I think it’s more about the Internet. There’s electronic music out there on the Internet that focuses more on beats than chillwave does,…
Up until now, Tokyo music maker Taquwami has been making a name for himself form his bedroom. The young producer has flooded SoundCloud and Bandcamp with dizzying homemade electronic songs. He released his first proper EP, Blurrywonder, via the online label Void Youth this past August and recently remixed the song “Life & Limb” by…