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POWDER DELIVERS INAUGURAL MIX FOR BEATS IN SPACE, DROPS TWO NEW TRACKS

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...

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KIKAGAKU MOYO RELEASE MASANA TEMPLES

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,...

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A THOUGHT PROVOKING QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION WITH WATA IGARASHI

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...

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[.que] RELEASES WONDERLAND

[.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...

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POWDER DROPS STUNNING ‘H’ EP

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...

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RAYONS UNVEILS NEW SINGLE FROM DEBUT ALBUM

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...

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Indie30 is a globally focused independent music blog run by a very small band of music tragic's from Adelaide in Australia. We believe passionately in posting about and promoting new independent music from a diverse range of genres and styles.

While many have retreated from using the term indie, it's proudly been our primary name from the beginning. Contrary to how it is often used, the term does not describe a particular music genre or style. Indie is simply short for independent label.

Used correctly, it describes music created and released independently of the three big music labels owned by multi-national entertainment conglomerates, Universal Music Group (Vivendi Corporation - France), Warner Music (Access Industries - Russia) and Sony Music (Sony Corporation - Japan) along with the 500+ subsidiaries and sub-labels they have between them.

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