Taquwami - All My Life

Despite a steady stream of impeccable joints, Taquwami (real name Takumi Kuwahara)
remains an elusive figure. But hey with music this good, little is unforgivable.

Somewhere in the mix, an old R&B song has been buried alive. It calls out in
distant wails, touched with reverb and pitch-fucked, as icy synth shards fall about.
It travels close to the aqueous realm of melancholic majesty that Balam Acab inhabits.
Except for that sexy trap drum pattern.

With every song, the Japanese wiz proves to be one of the most impressive and underrated
new talents in the producer game this year, teasing and baiting us with a trickle
of songs.

Oh, the unbearable thirst....

Dopewave Is Real (Compilation Album)

From reading a lot about music, I realized how the conversation about genres

and categorization was a constantly evolving and perilious dialogue. With so

many artists drawing from various influences and adding to the fact that some

of the artist themselves are 'genre-shy' (i.e. do not want to be pigeonholed), it

is a seesawing debate. What is unique here is that the presenters of this

compilation have done all the work for us ahead of time and assigned themselves

a category, newly-birthed, of their own creation.

Say hello to dopewave. And it's dope, for real.