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Music
We cannot deny the total transformation immediately of Japanese popular music after the war. Being heavily influenced by the USA from the airwaves or directly from those in military bases. Japanese popular music has had many faces and styles over the decades, from Japanese Rock from the 60s and 70s, City-pop in the 80s and the rise of J-pop in the 90s.
Vomitspit: Erupting Japan’s Dubstep Scene
Next level soundsystem music is flowing through Vomitspit, the Japanese record label run by the dubstep demons, Dayzero and Karnage. Individually, the duo’s tectonic tunes have been released worldwide on...
Read moreRyuichi Sakamoto: Playing the Piano for the Isolated
Japanese musical innovator, Ryuichi Sakamoto, has recorded a touching live performance for those in isolation around the world. Special guest, Hidejiro Honjoh, joins the session with his shamisen expertise. Sakamoto...
Read moreTop 5 Japanese Inspired Lo-fi Hip-Hop Youtube Channels
Who hasn’t waded through videos, down the rabbit hole, on Youtube and come across a lo-fi hip-hop track featuring a looping Anime GIF? Years ago these tracks wouldn’t have been...
Read moreTop 5 Enka Songs
We're big fans of Japanese music as you may have noticed. At Nakama, we've promoted Japanese Ongaku Yoru in London and always swap tracks with each other on new finds...
Read moreVaporwave: The Definitive Video Games
The vaporwave experience is interactive as well as audio-visual. Many games have been claimed by the vaporwave dynasty as...
Read more3 Relaxing Albums by Japanese Composers
One of the things that makes these soul-clearing albums so special is their ability to invoke a massive range...
Read moreVaporwave: More than a Micro-Genre
Squeeze the play button on your cassette player and let the beats start flowing; vaporwave is the retro glamour...
Read moreUMMMI Interview: Avant-Garde Cinema, Audience Freedom & Tokyo’s Best Nightclubs
Inside the belly of Pirate Studios in Bristol, I connect to the Wi-Fi and let UMMMI know that I’m...
Read moreHaruomi Hosono at the Barbican
Last Saturday, five decades into his musical career, the legendary Haruomi Hosono played his solo work for the first...
Read moreOngaku Yoru at Matilda’s Sake Bar
Bubbly music jiggled the floorboards of Matilda’s Sake Bar, which was...
Read moreJapanoise: The Originators and Innovators
Noise takes it further than any other genre. Rhythm, melody, lyrics, standard instruments: all forgotten. For many, the...
Read moreMás Hangok Interview
Along the noisy London Road in Brighton, a couple of doors away from Dominoes Pizza, I walked into the...
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