After four EPs LDH’s Crazyboy returns with his first album
Crazyboy aka. Elly from LDH's boy group J Soul Brothers launched his solo career and dropped his first solo EP a bit more than a year ago. Titled NEOTOKYO EP…
Introducing GLOSS, a new underground girl group
It seems that the J-Pop girl group revolution, that's been going on in the Japanese music industry these last couple of years is (fortunately) far from being over, and now,…
Grooveman Spot returns to his hip-hop roots again with Resynthesis (Green)
Grooveman Spot is one of the key players of Tokyo's renowned hip-hop label Jazzy Sport and he has an extremely diverse back catalogue: his classic Eternal Development from 2006 was…
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…