Does the new album from Doberman Infinity abandon all their hip-hop roots?
Doberman Infinity had a very interesting career so far: they started out as Doberman Inc back in 2000 playing a very club-friendly, but still rather decent kind of stuff like…
X Japan’s Toshi teams up with rapper AK-69 for an unexpected collaboration
It seems that lately Japanese singers try to outdo each other in unexpected team-ups. Just think about rapper Sky-Hi's song with hippie indie cuties Czecho No Republic (which turned out…
DJ Krush: upcoming new album and EU tour! [Updated with album info!]
DJ Krush had two major announcement the during the last coupe of days, one about his upcoming tour and one about a new album! So, let's see the details: As…
Charisma.com: best of album, new video and… the end?
About a month ago, mid-November electro / hip-hop / pop duo announced that they will start the year with a Best Of and such announcements are not always a good…
New digital / vinyl release from Budamunk out on Fat Beats Records!
After doing a series of collaborations this year Budamunk is back again, this time with a solo album! It was released this Friday on the US label Fat Beats Records…
Rapper Sky-Hi announces world tour, including two dates in Europe!
I mentioned recently that Sky-Hi, the rapper of JPop group AAA is popping up pretty much everywhere nowadays, as besides a couple of recent hip-hop collaborations, he just released a…
Tajima Hal @ Tinta Art Cafe, Budapest, 2017.09.22
Actually this isn't much of a live report, more of a photo & video report of Japanese beatmaker Tajima Hal's visit to Budapest a week or so ago. He was…
Czecho No Republic x SKY-HI – indie-pop meets hip-hop!
OK, this unexpected. One of the most charming indie-pop / indie-rock groups Czecho No Republic and SKY-HI, the rapper from co-ed JPop group AAA teamed up for a joint track. And…
AKLO & JAY’ED goes old-school!
The '80s retro wave's been raging for a while all around the world, including Japan, but it rarely gets as authentic as in the music video for Different Man, the…
Budamunk teams up with Yotaro for new free DL EP!
It seems that this year is all about collaborations for boom bap hip-hop maestro Budamunk: he started with a joint 7" with Eloh Kush, that was eventually followed by an…