Two new beat tapes from Grooveman Spot!
A Japanese boom bap label, the Okinawa based Honey Records just released two digital exclusive beat tapes from the mighty Grooveman Spot yesterday. Titled Lost Beat Tape -Pianoman- vol.1 and…
Monthly singles from DJ Krush + a couple of EU dates for July
This July hip-hop master DJ Krush will be back for another round of EU dates: he will be performing at Spain's famous Sonar festival on the 19th and will have…
SudannaYuzuYully’s new track mixes hip-hop, pop and traditional music + a new start for LDH girl groups
SudannaYuzuYully, a trio under the management company LDH started back in early 2017 and it includes three girls from the agency's other groups: two from Happiness and one from their…
Charisma.com returns as a solo project with a new video, new sound and new image
is officially back! The group went on an indefinite hiatus in January after DJ Gonchi, one half of the duo decided to quit the music and entertainment business altogether to…
Dubstep, hip-hop and chill: new releases from Dayzero!
Since the April release of the Vomitspit album, that he co-produced with his partner-in-crime Karnage, Dayzero's been keeping himself incredibly busy dropping release after release, yet again proving how versatile he…
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…