Earlier this week, Shingo “Shing02” Annen should have been performing at San Francisco’s Great American Music Hall with his band, the Chee-Hoos. For the past seven years, he has led “A Tribute to ...

While many stones remain to be turned over in the Golden Age of samples, this week we focus on one of the most commendable, forward-thinking, mind-melting ...

Jun Seba (Japanese: 瀬葉 淳, Hepburn: Seba Jun, February 7, 1974 – February 26, 2010), better known by his stage name Nujabes (ヌジャベス, Nujabesu), was a Japanese record producer, audio engineer, DJ, ...

It seems like forever since the late Japanese producer Nujabes left the world in 2010. Being a significant role model and influence in the hip-hop world, his death shook-up the underground hip-hop ...

Beatmaker, producer, DJ, musician, crate digger, record store and label owner — Nujabes did it all. Tokyo born and raised, he soaked up inspiration from the overseas jazz and hip-hop music that he ...

Nine years after Jun Seba lost his life in a road accident, the Japanese music scene (not to mention a significant number of overseas listeners) is still mourning the loss of its own J Dilla. Friends ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CASysjhGVUw Nujabes - Horizon Live@Enoshima 2011. Aug. 6th (Tribute to Nujabes) by Uyama Hiroto ...

‘Ordinary joe’ is a bittersweet vignette of the average nobody immersed in a vision of freedom. ‘Ordinary joe’ captures so diligently an image of positive anonymity that the song itself could be said ...

Another tragic loss shocked the world of music today. Japanese Hip Hop producer Nujabes, born Jun Seba, was killed in a car accident in Tokyo. Nujabes crashed when leaving the Metropolitan Expressway ...

In this article, we will explore Nujabes, an artist who holds a particularly high global reputation in the history of Japanese music. The origin of lo-fi hip hop. The music of the anime 'Samurai ...