POWDER DELIVERS INAUGURAL MIX FOR BEATS IN SPACE, DROPS TWO NEW TRACKS
Tokyo based DJ/Producer Moko Shibata, aka Powder returns with the first release since H, her amazing 2017 EP for Berlin label Cocktail d’Amore. It comes in the form of an eclectic and wide ranging 18 track mix titled Powder In Space for Tim Sweeney’s Beats In Space Records. It features two Shibata originals, ‘Gift’ and the […]
KIKAGAKU MOYO RELEASE MASANA TEMPLES
Photo Credit: Jamie Wdziekonski Last Friday saw Japanese psych-rock genre defiers Kikagaku Moyo release their excellent new album Masana Temples. Having decamped to the Portuguese capital of Lisbon to record the album, their fourth, with jazz musician Bruno Pernadas, the Tokyo and Amsterdam based quintet were aiming for a more expansive approach conceptually to psychedelic music […]
A THOUGHT PROVOKING QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION WITH WATA IGARASHI
Shibuya, Tokyo techno and sound producer Wata Igarashi recently released a new EP for New York City label The Bunker. The impressive four track Question And Answer, a release dealing with the themes of connection and communication which are represented by the diverse, thought provoking conversations between rhythm and melody that occur throughout each track. […]
[.que] RELEASES WONDERLAND
Last week [.que], the solo project of Shinjuku based artist Nao Kakimoto released a new album Wonderland through Athens based label Sound In Silence. It’s gestation period began in 2015 when Kakimoto scored the short film Kurokawa Wonderland. From that he composed ten instrumental short pieces of wistful and wide eyed ambience where attention to […]
POWDER DROPS STUNNING ‘H’ EP
This week saw Tokyo based DJ/Producer Moko Shibata, aka Powder released her debut EP H, through Berlin label Cocktail d’Amore. Upon her visit to the dance club a couple of years back she was inspired to create four tracks that add tropical, acid and industrial elements to her house predilections. This is a consistent stunner […]
RAYONS UNVEILS NEW SINGLE FROM DEBUT ALBUM
Back in September, Rayons, the project of Japanese instrumentalist and composer Masako Nakai released her debut album, The World Left Behind. She’s just released the latest exquisitely beautiful single from it, ‘Waxing Moon’ featuring the vocals of Miwako Shimizu aka Predawn. It comes accompanied by a cinematic video directed by Tao Tajima of night descending […]