(Heh, talk about nice timing) Kobe producer Tofubeats’ latest single is here, and after two major-label songs where he hooked up with some older names, he’s teamed up with Hitomi Arai of Tokyo Girls’ Style for new single “Come On Honey!” It’s a shuffling number featuring some nice synth blurts right before the chorus and…
Kobe’s Tofubeats made a mix for the BBC show Diplo And Friends, which you can listen to above! Don’t usually share mixes here, but this one is really good and features so many artists we love around here (Seiho! Avec Avec! Pa’s Lam System! Parkgolf! bo en! So many more!) that it seems like a…
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…
A handful of gems to start this week. Let’s hit ’em quick. – I don’t know much about Trippy Turtle, though I think that’s the point. It is a mysterious project (maybe from Norway), and whoever this is mostly remixes R ‘n’ B songs. The original “Trippy’s Theme” sounds a lot like Seiho, but Tofubeats’…
Is Takashi Fujii – a comedian and singer, who you might know as hosting the fictional TV show in Lost In Translation – the god of disco? That’s probably a topic worthy of a townhall debate, but he’s been recruited to sing on Kobe producer Tofubeat’s forthcoming single “Disco No Kamisama” (“God Of Disco”). For…