Orlando’s BYSON takes us shopping in Japan with konbini. We featured BYSON a few months ago with his album, refresh, and now he is back with something new. “konbini” is a collection of Japanese-themed beats. The tape opens with sounds of supermarket shuffling and meanders into a piano-drum loop. The rest is a journey through …
Stream a whole hour of Japanese jazz from the 70’s including rare groove, jazz fusion, drum breaks, and more.
Japanese producer axion117 gives us some Sketches for his new album.
Brazilian musician Ed Motta compiles a mix of cool Japanese “City Pop”.
Tokyo’s beat maestro Bugseed shows us his Street Mentality.
Mix master Emir E. Mardan put together a Japanese mix and we think it’s the perfect source for sampling.
Nitsua is his name. Japan is the setting. Superb beats is the game. Lost In Translation is the track… and you’ve got to hear this.
Remember the time… Michael Jackson visited Isao Tomita in Japan during his Bad tour and got wasted on sake? Nah, me neither.
We gave Languid’s latest track “Farewell” a listen, taken from the “Six Deep” compilation by Rootnote Collective. It’s been far too long since we last heard a full release from Languid but we’ll make do with this gem. Farewell sees the UK producer back on his Japanese tip, high on the treble with plenty of …
Japan’s Bugseed releases Old Seeds, a collection of beats from 2008-2010. A mere month after dropping his goldfish ep, Bugseed raided his beat vault, selected some beats dated from 2008-2010 and put them together to create Old Seeds. There are plenty of jazzy loops and breaks, from the frantic sounding “dance on concrete” to laid …