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NETLABEL
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Aug 13, 2020
Local Visions web label creates a digital oasis for pop
Masayuki Funo, founder of the music label Local Visions, gives burgeoning artists the freedom to explore their own sound.
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Feb 19, 2016
Omake Club helps Zombie-Chang escape down her own artistic rabbit hole
Midway through our conversation at a dimly lit Shibuya cafe, Meirin Yung offers to break down any song on her recently released album under the name Zombie-Chang. I choose the slacker-inspired “Semete Kanashii Tokiniwa” (loosely translated as “At Least in Sad Times“) that served as the advance preview...
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Oct 14, 2014
Smany’s sophomore outing shows subdued promise
Smany “Polyphenic” (Bunkai-kei records)
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Apr 8, 2014
Datafruits brings netlabel talent to a wider audience
It was a bit of good timing for Tony Miller when two underground music scenes he liked intersected in 2011.
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Sep 18, 2013
Various artists “Tanukineiri Drink Sampler”
It’s getting harder to listen to netlabel-released albums in one sitting recently. Electronic-music compilation series “Fogpak” recently put out a collection featuring 48 different artists (should we call the Guinness people?). Now Tanukineiri Records has popped out “Tanukineiri Drink Sampler” — 90...
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Aug 14, 2013
Smany “komoriuta”
Netlabel culture in Japan — referring to Web-only music labels that distribute tunes online, usually for free — has been around long enough to develop its own set of minor celebrities and “star” imprints. Bunkai-Kei has become one of the most popular of these Internet institutions, and its latest...
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