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
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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
Sayoko (高橋佐代子): MI・LUV・YU (1995)
Many moons ago, someone interviewed me and asked me (to paraphrase them), “What makes you pick what you share on the site?”Now,…
August 11, 2023
Kusu Kusu (クスクス): 世界が一番幸せな日 (Sekai Ga Ichiban Shiawase Na Nichi) (1990)
Timing. Isn’t that what life’s all about? If you’re there at the right moment, it all works out. If you’re there late,…
August 8, 2023
Chito Kawachi (チト河内): チトチック/クラクラ (1993)
There is no harder thing for a music reviewer to do than categorize music that’s, quite simply, uncategorizable. Especially so when it’s…
August 4, 2023
East Pulse: Asian Mirage (1983)
Sometimes there isn’t any time better than the right time to share something. And in my case, it’s now or never, for…
August 1, 2023
Viktor Lazlo: Club Désert (1989)
When writing about Viktor Lazlo, the musical alias of Sonia Dronier, my mind began to think of parallels. I kept thinking of…
July 4, 2023
Mix: 77. Verão Em Calcutá
Summer. There’s just something about hearing that word, about living in that season, that brings a certain urgency in me. It’s the…
June 27, 2023
Kim Wan-sun (金元萱): 第一次接觸 (The First Touch) (1994)
To paraphrase the great Janet Jackson, “Like a moth to a flame, Burned by the fire, My love is blind, Can’t you…
May 9, 2023
Nino Buoncore: Una Città Tra Le Mani (1988)
If y’all can count on one thing about me, it’s on this: I’m unafraid to promote adult music. Years of listening has…
April 18, 2023
Lee Jung-Sun (이정선): 9집 雨 (1990)
“Wherever I’ve been and gone, wherever I have gone, the blues are all the same…”, truer words could not exist to place…
March 21, 2023
Annie Whitehead: Mix Up (1985)
If you can imagine, imagine what it is to be a woman. For those already identifying as one, venture onwards. Then, compound…
November 29, 2022