Maltine Records turns 10 this year, and they’ve already celebrated with a big (and super fun) party at Tokyo’s Unit venue earlier this month. Today sees the next step in reveling with the release of the Maltine Book, a publication devoted to the pioneering netlabel (full disclosure: I was asked to contribute a piece for…
Kobe’s Tofubeats has always been a bit scatterbrained — dig in to any of his pre-majors albums on Bandcamp or even his DJ Newtown work and you’ll find him going off in a billion directions, jumping from rap to acid-house to slow ballads on each song. Yet since gaining access to a major-label and being…
Kobe’s Tofubeats is a child of the internet, and the EPs and albums he’s released thus far in his career…both as bedroom uploader and major-label signing…have reflected this attention-deprived upbringing, one where you are always a “related video” away from falling down some new hole. His full-lengths jump all over the place, zipping from synth…
Man, Tofubeats is one occupied dude, though I’m not sure him being on a major label really changes just how busy he has always been. Anyway, he has a new EP…Stakeholder…out in March, and here’s the first taste. Acting surprised when Tofubeats changes his sound up from what he was doing a few months ago…
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…