ReviewsJinmenusagi: ALXVE
Jinmenusagi is finally back in form with his first full solo album in a decade! The Tokyo-based rapper's ALXVE is officially a follow-up to his 2014 offering, LXVE, which was the album that put…
Live ReportsColdrain, Noisemaker, Revnoir @ Barba Negra, Budapest, 2025.12.06.
It was almost exactly ten years before this shows when I saw Coldrain for the first time: in late October, back in 2014, when they played in Vienna, at a…
ReviewsPalastleben: Manufacture
There were many excellent releases coming out of Japan in 2025, but if I had to pick one as the absolute I would probably pick this one. The debut album…
Reviewsf5ve: Sequence 01
During the last couple of years Japan's pop girlgroup scene went through a rather drastic change, with nearly all groups from the former generation disbanding and new ones taking their…
ReviewsThe People In Fog: Too Much Knobs And Cables
Yoshifumi Sodeyama has been a mainstay of Japan's electronic dance music scene for about two decades now and while with his better known moniker, DJ Sodeyama he explores techno music with…