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Merch for this release: Vinyl, Compact Disc (CD), Cassette Upon release, SAW II seemed like something that had crashed to Earth. The cover looked like the side of an alien ship, the cryptic insignia—in sepia tones burnished by solar radiation exposure—having weathered decades of galaxy travel to reach us. The blurry images inside the album were like snapshots from this distant planet. And the musi
Hitori No Mippiki at Navaro. Photos by James Gui. Closer to Seoul and Shanghai than to Tokyo, Kyushu is the southernmost island of the main Japanese archipelago. Far from the hustle of the capital city, those living in Kyushu have room to carve their own niche, as well as access to venues with an open ear to the avant-garde. Regional cities like Fukuoka have their own advantages, like “the possibi
One thing that can’t be overstated is Albini’s band Big Black’s influence on underground music. Beginning with his first self-produced EP, Lungs, Albini mined a corrosive style of punk that dripped with antagonism and pitch-black humor. Albini was a terrific writer, not only about music and culture, but also the hardboiled scenarios he molded into some of the most impactful character-driven songs
Bandcamp Fridays began in March of 2020 at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic when the shuttering of venues led to a loss of vital tour revenue for artists. Bandcamp Fridays—on which we waive our revenue share and pass the funds directly to artists & labels—has resulted in millions of fans paying over $120 million directly to labels and musicians they love. And so, as 2024 draws to a close, we wa
Half a decade before the emergence of music distribution platforms like Bandcamp would open the floodgates for artists to freely upload their tracks on a moment’s whim, the fledgling netlabel movement was already carving out a third way for those seeking to independently release music without investing in physical media or hosting it on the iTunes store. Though the initial wave of DIY imprints set
When considering J-pop today and what caused it to sprout—and delineate itself—from the city pop that defined the backend of Japan’s post-war period, it’s worth looking at economics and sociology. After World War II, the American occupation and the exportation boom resulting from the Korean War led to an unprecedented economic rebound and a bittersweet reshaping of Japanese culture. City pop, whic
If the sound of nostalgia in the early 2010s was the chopped ‘n screwed muzak of vaporwave, its parallel in recent years might be what some are calling “breakcore.” Inspired by artists like Machine Girl and goreshit, a contingent of internet musicians have taken to speeding things up rather than slowing things down; the Amen break and anime and video game aesthetics are their tools of choice for w
When it comes to underground music, Japan’s historical capital of Kyoto is often overlooked. Like Tainan in Taiwan, its place in the popular imaginary sits firmly within the realm of traditional culture, while cities like Osaka and Tokyo seem to burst with creative energy. But Kyoto’s pastoral cityscape has also birthed some of Japan’s most forward-thinking musicians. Noise rock heroes Les Rallize
A supergroup of sorts, Parasol combined the talents of Sultan of the Disco’s Chi Yoon Hae on bass, Julia Hart’s Naeun Kim on guitar, and the aforementioned Jung Won Jin, who also played for The Freaks. But like in any other tight-knit DIY scene, this sort of crossover is relatively common in the basements of Seoul’s Hongdae neighborhood. United by a love for ‘60s and ‘70s psychedelia, they capture
Photo by Gabriel Quintao A burly albino man with white hair falling to the middle of his back and a beard to match, Hermeto Pascoal is one of the most instantly recognizable musicians in the world. He was born in 1936 in Lagoa da Canoa, a small town in northeastern Brazil, and began playing his father’s accordion as a child. In the mid-’60s, having moved to piano, he formed the short-lived Sambras
The dream of Sarah Records is alive in China, 27 years after the influential British label pressed its last release. Though more interested in fostering a domestic community than making waves in the West, the nation is home to one of the most fervent indie pop scenes in the world today—a cross-country network of boutique labels that share members, releases, and an enthusiasm for all things twee. S
As its name implies, digital hardcore is the synapse-snapping, tech-friendly offspring of hardcore’s aggro parentage, a sonic problem child that breaks genre boundaries—and eardrums—with glee. By shoving choice components of composition—rhythm, volume, timbre—to their extremes, digital hardcore turns sound into weaponry, and its primary casualty is convention. It’s not surprising that the birthrig
The sprawling city of Tokyo is impossible to paint with a broad brush. With 882 train stations corresponding to about just as many neighborhoods, the city’s built environment contributes to the diversity of its music scene. Hotspots for different genres coalesce naturally in Tokyo: Koenji’s premiere live music venue HIGH is known for its monthly Total Feedback shoegaze night and corresponding comp
LISTS Music That Lives With You: Japanese Environmental Music on Bandcamp By Shy Thompson · Illustration by Butt Studio · June 14, 2021 While kankyō ongaku, a Japanese term meaning “environmental music,” does to some degree refer to the natural world, the word “environment” in this context is being used much more broadly. Rather than simply meaning “nature,” it is meant to describe any space peopl
FEATURES Stand with Bandcamp to Support Racial Justice, Equality, and Change By Ethan Diamond · June 18, 2021 On June 18, from midnight to midnight Pacific Time, we’ll hold our second annual Juneteenth fundraiser, where we donate 100% of our share of sales to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund to support their ongoing efforts to promote racial justice through litigation, advocacy, and public education.
“My hero, Stanley Kubrick, taught me that every frame you decide to share with people should be super specific and filled to the brim with choices,” says composer and producer Daniel Lopatin, talking to Interview magazine in 2018. In his decade-and-a-half career making music as Oneohtrix Point Never (and sometimes under his own name), Lopatin has taken the lesson to heart. Listening to his music,
“Costa Rica is probably the nation in Latin America [with] the most diffuse identity,” says Alejandro Arturo, who records as OVSICORI and whose debut LP Bucle, is full of soundscapes inspired by the region’s botanical diversity. “We don’t have those big political milestones to share with our neighbors; it’s always been a land of multiple influences, so the country is just kind of a big and weird h
Hong-Kong-based Neoncity Records began with a stroke of good luck. “I have a friend whose family worked in the cassette industry,” says Davy Law, the label’s founder and owner. “They used to have a cassette factory in Taiwan, but it closed. My friend had a cassette duplicator and they had no use for it. It was just in their house.” Law had long collected cassette tapes, including Japanese city pop
If you’ve come here looking for some kind of overarching throughline in these 100 records, I’ll tell you right now: you can forget it. Trying to reduce 100 albums by different people from different backgrounds and various walks of life into one Big Idea is a sucker’s errand, and it’s not one I’m foolhardy enough to take on. Besides which: that variety is exactly the point. Part of the reason we tu
Deconstructed music, also known as “post-club,” was born in a sweaty New York basement where a mix of voguers, punks, and fashion kids gathered to channel their anger and frustration, during a party named GHE20G0TH1K. DJ Venus X and Shayne Oliver, the fashion designer behind Hood by Air, started the night in 2009 as an outlet for their collective feelings of confusion and dispossession in the face
Forty years after he first started recording as Merzbow, Masami Akita’s music is no easier to categorize. Though his creations are perennially pigeonholed as noise music, anti-music, and even über-music, the sheer magnitude of his output will always present an obstacle to easy classification. Consider Mike Connelly’s comments in the opening episode of Merzcast, one of two recently launched podcast
Tao, Conehead, and DJ Kool Klone, photo by Peco Geographically situated within the 1,900-mile stretch of water that separates China and Japan—and culturally positioned in the shadow of both nations’ more well-known music scenes—the island of Taiwan is somewhat of an anomaly in hip-hop’s international landscape. As the genre’s cultural impact expanded outward from the American bicoastal bases of Ne
Let’s be honest for a second: No one clicks on these lists for the introduction. I don’t blame them! This is usually just the place where some routine throat-clearing goes, before we get to the main event. It’s also the place where I confess to the amount of anxiety involved with putting together a list like this—last year, I said, “Right now, there’s probably someone in their bedroom in Buenos Ai
Merch for this release: Vinyl LP The artist who created the soundtrack was Jun Fukamachi, an experimental composer from Japan who’d achieved cult-like status by releasing a number of eclectic records since the early 1970s. He wasn’t present that night, but his long-time manager, Teruya Mae, was. Mae just so happened to have a few copies of the music on tape and gave them to Bergen and Warhol, who
Koenji Hyakkei Back in the 1960s and ‘70s, Japan was home to a host of experimental psych bands. And while Les Rallizes Dénudés, Flower Travellin’ Band, Far East Family Band, and Taj Mahal Travellers didn’t sound the same, they all shared a love for lengthy improvisation and owed a debt to the avant-garde. They weren’t afraid to get weird, they were sometimes political, and they sometimes rode the
In the early ‘90s, music journalists seemed very concerned with finding the next Seattle. Or rather, finding the next city that could redefine guitar rock for the masses while attracting major label A&R reps who were ready to kneel at the Chuck Taylors of its ambassadors, blank checks in hand. D.C. had Fugazi, Jawbox, and the already established Dischord Records. San Diego had Gravity Records. Chi
Roska It started on a Sunday, early 1992; droves of party people were rolling out of the freshly-established London clubbing institution Ministry Of Sound at 9am, eager to find a dancefloor that would keep their wide-eyed vibe alive. Many of them found it next door in an innocuous pub called The Elephant & Castle at an event called Happy Days. Others found it a mile down the road in similarly clas
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