Jinmenusagi: 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…
Palastleben: 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…
f5ve: 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…
The 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…
Karnage: Moments of Fleeting Existence
While Karnage is mostly known as one of the best known figures of the Japanese dubstep scene, he's been doing noisy experimental music for quite a while as well. His…
Shinichi Atobe: Discipline
When Shinichi Atobe returns with a new release you can never really know what to expect. Even the four tracks on his first EP, Ship-Scope from 2001 (out on German…
Soshi Takeda: Secret Communication
When house music hit the shores of Japan back in the late '80s, local producers quickly developed a style of their own. Clearly influenced by early Balearic, Italo and deep…
Over Kill: The Purge
It is often a problem with Japanese trap acts that they start out with hard-hitting tracks, then, as they are getting more popular, they start to tone down their sound…
Ålborg: The Way I See You
One of the nicest surprises of 2024 was the first album from Ålborg, a fairly new group from Yokohama. They are active since 2022 and I came across their music…
Shadows: DIG
Six years after their latest full-length (and five after their latest EP), Shadows in finally back with a new album and while DIG took quite some time to make, it…