![]() No matter how big his music has gotten, it still sounds like it was recorded in bedroom, and shipped to you on cassette with a little handwritten note.ĭo you remember indie music in 2004? The year Funeral came out, it seemed like indie rock was finally going to bring us back the joy we lost in the existential crisis of the 90s. Perhaps even more remarkable than all that, is that Shugo does everything for his music, from the instrumentation, to the producing, down to the mixing. But he’s also successful at home, where he has broken into their top 40 with his 2010 album Port Entropy. ![]() His music has been used for huge AAA E3 announcements, and for the launch of one of Sony’s shitty vaios. ![]() But Shugo Tokumaru has been releasing albums on american labels, including Polyvinyl (Of Montreal, American Football, Japandroids, etc), for over a decade with genuine success. Off the top of my head, only Cornelius (who just finished doing an American tour), and maybe Number Girl or Kashiwa Daisuke could really claim to have that kind of audience. A few are making inward motions into grabbing a global audience, like Kinoko Teikoku, who have started protecting their music's distribution in the west, but only a very select few have a following big enough to support genuine shows, or KEXP appearances with over two hundred thousand views. At lot of artists I cover for this series are relatively unknown in the west.
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