Interview: Satoshi Suzuki (鈴木慧)
Is it wrong to feel nostalgia for a past you never lived through? With the rise of City Pop and other genres…
October 27, 2023
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Koto・Za (箏座): Koto・Za (箏座) (1991)
There’s nothing like youthful naivete is there? I fully believe it’s that ingrained spirit to want to shake things up and light…
October 13, 2023
Summerhaze: Summerhaze (1987)
When autumn comes rolling in, I always welcome a fresh wind that shifts my focus elsewhere, towards music with a more folkloric…
October 10, 2023
Karak (カラク): Flow (フロウ) (1992)
It’s pretty hard to write about Fukushima’s Karak without not waxing a bit nostalgic. Over the course of two records – Silent…
October 6, 2023
John “Johnny Bug” Chen (小蟲): 活在愛裡 (Because Of Love) (1995)
Some of you might not realize it but It appears that lately I’ve been exploring a bit of musical nostalgia. For me,…
October 3, 2023
Toyo B.G.M. Corp.: Concentration: 作品 Vol.1 – 集中力がつく音楽 (1992)
Sometimes I have to catch myself. Do I really want to go down the rabbit hole, searching for information…not for some brilliant…
September 29, 2023
Ricardo Fabini: Cidade De Cristal (1992)
I don’t know about you but for me certain albums are colored by memory. Whenever I put on Ricardo Fabini’s Cidade De…
September 26, 2023
Mix: 79. Groove Bunny Records (Guest Mix + Interview with Cheng “Endy” Chen)
Looking back, it feels like my relationship with Endy goes back more than recently. Trolling through my Discogs orders I see that…
September 19, 2023
Hitoshi Komuro (小室等) YONAGUNI 与那国 (1990)
It’s late summer again. Like before, I’m drawn to music that evokes feelings found at the corners of each such season. And…
September 8, 2023
Interview: Ken-Ichiro Isoda (磯田健一郎)
It’s not entirely lost on me how improbable this conversation is. I say this because nearly half a decade ago, in 2018,…
August 29, 2023
cocu* (コキュウ*): aromatica (アロマティカ) (1998)
Some artists make whole careers out of reinventing themselves. The best ones, you name it from the late David Bowie, to Joni…
August 25, 2023
Säju (サージュ): Säju (サージュ) (1997)
Find your space in the pocket. If ever there was a phrase that I’ve been trying to hammer home lately, on the…
August 22, 2023