Tokyo 2016 #5: DJ Daruma, kiLLa and more @ Contact, 2016.09.06
Tokyo 2016 is a 13 part series of photo & live reports from September, 2016, documenting a deep dive into the city's various underground music scenes. The trip's first overnight…
80kidz returns to club music with another round of their 80:XX series [Updated]
80kidz was one of the three acts (along with The Lowbrows and Dexpistols), that pretty much revolutionized Japan's club scene with their excellent tracks and fresh take on electro house…
New remix album from Takkyu Ishino with Towa Tei, Yoshinori Sunahara, Westbam and more!
Takkyu Ishino, one of the most internationally renowned Japanese techno producers (known both for his solo works and his projects like Denki Groove or InK) finally returned with a new…
Hirofumi Asamoto of Ram Jam World passes away
After spending over two years in coma, following a tragic bicycle accident, musician and producer Hirofumi Asamoto passed away on the 30th of November, 2016 at age 53. Over his…
The fin. returns with a new EP with four remixes
The fin., the dreamy indie pop group from Kobe (that just finished its UK tour a few days ago) released a quite interesting collection of remixes last week: Through The…
Goth-Trad is back with a remix for Bristol’s The Pop Group!
Goth-Trad just released his latest album, Psionics (well, its pre-order only limited version at least, the regular version will be out sometime later), but he is already back with more…
Metafive: Metahalf
Metafive started back in 2014 as an all star super-group, formed by Yukihiro Takahashi of Japanese techno / electro pop innovators Yellow Magic Orchestra, including Tomohiko Gondo (from the band…
Boom Boom Satellites – R.I.P. Michiyuki Kawashima
It was announced earlier today by Boom Boom Satellites' staff, that the duo's singer and guitarist Michiyuki Kawashima passed away after his years-long struggle with brain tumor. After going through…
[Mixology] Iori @ Invite’s Choice Podcast (and European tour)
This new series called Mixology (well, as you can guess from the name), will be all mixes! More precisely it will be about collecting and re-posting some of the best…
Goth-Trad, Broken Haze, Carpainter & more @ Boiler Room’s Tokyo Bass stream… in a few hours!
The Boiler Room crew's been working with Japanese artists for a few of years now and they already had a couple of excellent online stream shows (that are now mostly…