taro "taro" (Download)
mmm (a.k.a. Moe Ishii) has started a new band named taro. The first self-titled EP features support members Emerson Kitamura on keyboards and Yuta Suganuma on drums. The 4-song release is available mainly digitally, though a physical CD can also...
Posted on February 28, 2025 at 21:55. | Released on February 26, 2025
Emerson Kitamura "porthole / stupid fingers" (Download)
Emerson Kitamura has released two new songs on download/streaming platforms. "porthole" is an instrumental with drummer Suganuma Yuta, while "stupid fingers" features singer mmm. The single is also available via his Bandcamp, just digitally or also as a "download...
Posted on August 5, 2022 at 13:12. | Released on August 3, 2022
Posted on November 18, 2020 at 20:56. | Event held on Monday November 23, 2020 at 19:00 (JST)
VIDEOTAPEMUSIC "The Secret Life of VIDEOTAPEMUSIC" (12"+Download code)
VIDEOTAPEMUSIC is releasing a vinyl edition of his 4th album "The Secret Life of VIDEOTAPEMUSIC" (2019) (Spotify, ), but not without a twist. Several of the songs were re-mixed, the order changed, and the jacket also renewed for 2020. Also...
Posted on September 15, 2020 at 20:10. | Released on September 18, 2020
Posted on August 4, 2020 at 23:10. | Event held on Friday August 7, 2020 at 20:00 (JST)
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Tokyo's Coolest Sound radio show on La Face B: "Tokyo's Coolest Sound" vol.59
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 May 13, 2025 at 14:04.
Ryuichi Sakamoto "Travesía Ryuichi Sakamoto Curated By Iñárritu" (2CD/2LP)
This is a compilation album of Ryuichi Sakamoto works, selected carefully by Mexican filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu from a repertory of over 1000 songs (including solo, collaborations and live performances), a process that took over half a year. In addition...
Posted on May 18, 2023 at 23:40. | Released on May 3, 2023
Denki Groove "Homebase" (Download)
Denki Groove has dropped a brand new song titled "Homebase", along with its hilarious music video! It had been 25 years since the members appeared in a music video (the previous having been hit song "Shangri-La"). Check it out...
Posted on September 14, 2022 at 22:35. | Released on August 29, 2022
Posted on November 22, 2020 at 13:43. | Event held on Saturday November 28, 2020 at 19:30 (JST)
Tokyo's Coolest Sound radio show on La Face B: "Tokyo's Coolest Sound" vol.10
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 October 28, 2020 at 21:52.
Record Store Day Black Friday 2019
Black Friday isn't all that big in Japan, but we do get two releases for Record Store Day Black Friday 2019! The first release is song "Energy Flo", a self-cover of Ryuichi Sakamoto's "energy flow" in a collaboration with tabla...
Posted on November 28, 2019 at 22:54. | Released on November 29, 2019
VIDEOTAPEMUSIC "The Secret Life Of VIDEOTAPEMUSIC"
VIDEOTAPEMUSIC has a new 4th album coming this week, most of which is vocal! A large number of collaborators are featured including vocalists Yokoyama Ken (Crazy Ken Band), Takagi Shōhei (cero), Robochū, mmm, etc., and musicians such as Emerson Kitamura,...
Posted on July 22, 2019 at 23:04. | Released on July 24, 2019
Record Day 2018
Record Day is this Saturday November 3, always held on the same day as national holiday "Culture Day". Led by Japan's long-running record factory Tōyōkasei, many labels and artists coordinate their releases in the favorite physical format of many to...
Posted on November 2, 2018 at 23:22. | Released on November 3, 2018
Emerson Kitamura "The Countryside is Great e.p." (12")
"Bangkok Nites" is a Japanese movie released in 2016. EM Records, the label that released the soundtrack, has been also releasing a series of tribute 12" EPs. This last installment is by keyboardist Emerson Kitamura. "inaka wa iine" is a...
Posted on February 18, 2018 at 12:13. | Released on February 17, 2018
Ryuichi Sakamoto "async - Remodels"
This month Ryuichi Sakamoto suddenly released a remix album of songs from his latest album "async". Included are remixes by close collaborators Cornelius, Alva Noto and Fennesz, as well as ARCA (co-producer of Björk's "Vulnicura"), Oneohtrix Point Never (who is...
Posted on December 31, 2017 at 13:50. | Released on December 13, 2017
Ryuichi Sakamoto "async"
Sakamoto Ryūichi has a brand new album out now! While it is out today in Japan, "async" will be released in the rest of the world on April 28 on Milan Records. Also, a 2-LP vinyl edition is expected to...
Posted on March 29, 2017 at 10:00. | Released on March 29, 2017
Various Artists "Women in Music selected by Cibo Matto"
Cibo Matto are back this year with new album "Hotel Valentine", and here's a nice-priced 2-CD compilation of songs by female artists and female-fronted bands from Japan and the world, selected by the two. Featured are Buffalo Daughter, mi-gu, Charisma.com,...
Posted on May 30, 2014 at 00:20. | Released on June 4, 2014
Harada Tomoyo "noon moon"
Singer Harada Tomoyo has a new album coming, produced by Itō Gorō (naomi & goro). Along with new songs, a self-cover of Swedish pop song "Love" (written by Tore Johansson, from 1997 album "I could be free") is included. Sakamoto...
Posted on May 3, 2014 at 10:51. | Released on May 7, 2014
