Kagami "Time Machine" (Download)
Netherlands-based cosmic funk project KAGAMI (Instagram) has released a new EP titled "Time Machine". Included are previously released songs featuring Natsu Summer and Hikari (Tokimeki Records), and in addition to those are several new songs including collaborations with Monari Wakita...
Posted on April 13, 2025 at 14:39. | Released on April 11, 2025
Maika Loubté "Show Me How (Kan Sano Remix)" (Download)
Maika Loubté's song "Show Me How", released in its original form in October 2020, has been remixed by singer-songwriter/keyboardist/producer Kan Sano! There's also a music video that you can watch below. It was filmed at l'Institut français du Japon...
Posted on September 25, 2021 at 22:37. | Released on September 22, 2021
Lupin The Third Jam Crew "Lupin The Third Jam -Lupin The Third Remix-" (12"/CD)
Lupin The Third Jam Crew is a remix project of songs from Lupin The Third's recent years anime movies and series. Featured remixers include tofubeats, fox capture plan, banvox, Kan Sano and many more. The remixes have been released digitally...
Posted on March 14, 2021 at 20:53. | Released on March 13, 2021
RYUTist "Falsetto"
Niigata-based idol group RYUTist has a 4th album finally being released, after having suffered some delays from the virus situation. Including some songs previously released as singles, and also a bunch of brand new ones. It had been 3 years...
Posted on July 8, 2020 at 23:22. | Released on July 14, 2020
Record Day 2023
Record Day is being held this year again, on November 3, coinciding with public holiday Culture Day. Below are some picks that are not to be missed from the November 3 crates, but there's also much more to be found...
Posted on November 3, 2023 at 11:43. | Released on November 3, 2023
Record Store Day 2023
Record Store Day will be held worldwide on Saturday April 22! Below is a list of recommended releases coming from Japan. The full list of Record Store Day Japan can be found here. As always, there are no online pre-orders,...
Posted on April 15, 2023 at 23:40. | Released on April 22, 2023
Tokyo's Coolest Sound radio show on La Face B: "Tokyo's Coolest Sound" vol.36
This is Tokyo's Coolest Sound's own radio show, which is featured on La Face B (Facebook page), an Internet radio based in Montréal (Québec, Canada). It brings you some favorite songs and artists that you've read about in these...
Posted on February 17, 2023 at 20:57.
Maika Loubté "Lucid Dreaming: The Remixes" (Download)
A remix album of "Lucid Dreaming", Maika Loubté's latest album from last year, has just been released digitally! Included are 15 remixes by 14 remixers. Check the tracklist below, and go listen on your favorite download/streaming platform. A new music...
Posted on June 15, 2022 at 22:22. | Released on June 15, 2022
Tokyo's Coolest Sound radio show on La Face B: "Tokyo's Coolest Sound" vol.28
This is Tokyo's Coolest Sound's own radio show, which is featured on La Face B (Facebook page), an Internet radio based in Montréal (Québec, Canada). It brings you some favorite songs and artists that you've read about in these...
Posted on June 10, 2022 at 08:54.
Maika Loubté "Mist (TiMT Remix)" (Download)
Maika Loubté has just released a new remix of the song "Mist", remixed by TiMT (Twitter) (PEARL CENTER, Mime, Pistachio Studio). It can be found on download/streaming services linked below. The original version of "Mist" appeared on album "Lucid...
Posted on May 21, 2022 at 01:22. | Released on May 18, 2022
Coastlines "Coastlines 2"
Coastlines, the instrumental unit of DJ/producer Masanori Ikeda and keyboardist Takumi Kaneko (of cro-magnon), has just released a brand new 2nd album titled "Coastlines 2"! Included are many new originals plus covers of Alan Hawkshaw & Brian Bennett's "Mile High...
Posted on May 16, 2022 at 00:36. | Released on May 11, 2022
arvin homa aya "Heaven's Song" (7"/Download)
Singer-songwriter arvin homa aya (Facebook, Twitter) whose 8th album "Past Present Future" (, Spotify) was released last year, has a 7" single that has just been released on Flower Records. The 7" contains "Heaven's Song" from that latest album,...
Posted on April 24, 2021 at 00:49. | Released on April 21, 2021
Tokyo's Coolest Sound radio show on La Face B: "Tokyo's Coolest Sound" vol.14
This is Tokyo's Coolest Sound's own radio show, which is featured on La Face B (Facebook page), an Internet radio based in Montréal (Québec, Canada). It brings you some favorite songs and artists that you've read about in these...
Posted on February 25, 2021 at 01:11.
April Set "asayake ga kieru mae ni / yakan hikou" (7")
April Set, the solo project of DJ & producer Suzuki Masanori (Instagram), has just recently released a new 7"! The A-side is a cover of Ishikawa Seri's hit song "asayake ga kieru mae ni", written by Yuming, this time...
Posted on January 3, 2021 at 19:42. | Released on December 16, 2020
Interview: Izumi "Mimi" Kobayashi
Original interview text by Takashi Ikegami Translated from Japanese by Patrick Benny (Tokyo's Coolest Sound) Izumi "Mimi" Kobayashi (below "Mimi") is an interesting artist from actually many perspectives. First, there is the one where she expresses original works as the...
Posted on November 2, 2020 at 00:25.
Coastlines "East Coast / West Coast" (7")
Following their self-titled album "Coastlines" (2019), here come two new songs by Coastlines (Bandcamp), the instrumental unit of DJ/producer Masanori Ikeda (aka Mansfield) and keyboardist Kaneko Takumi (of cro-magnon). The songs are being released on 7". "'East Coast' with...
Posted on March 21, 2020 at 13:36. | Released on March 25, 2020
Major Force Productions "Murder Face feat. Leo Imai" (12")
Major Force (Discogs) was a label formed in 1988 by Nakanishi Toshio (Plastics) (R.I.P.), K.U.D.O., Yashiki Gōta, Takagi Kan and Fujiwara Hiroshi. For its 30th anniversary in 2018, some members got back together under the name Major Force Productions...
Posted on January 16, 2020 at 22:36. | Released on February 5, 2020
Hasegawa Hakushi "Air Ni Ni"
Eclectic 20-year-old singer-songwriter Hasegawa Hakushi (Soundcloud) has a first full-length album being released! This is his 2nd CD release and follows mini-album "sōmoku hōdō" (2018) (which contained a cover of YMO's "Cue"). Included is a self-cover of "itsukushii hibi", a...
Posted on November 11, 2019 at 22:46. | Released on November 13, 2019
