Shibuya Kei

Porter Robinson had already moved beyond festival-ready EDM by the time Worlds, a full-length debut filled with widescreen electro-pop tunes inspired by anime and video games, arrived in 2014. After the album became a massive success, topping Billboard's Dance/Electronic Albums chart and influencing numerous producers, Robinson felt pressured to deliver another major statement that would live up to his reputation. He scored a gold-certified hit with "Shelter," his 2016 collaboration with Madeon, and following the duo's extensive international tour, he branched off with Virtual Self, a hyper-fun side project influenced by trance and Dance Dance Revolution, which surprisingly earned the producer his first Grammy nomination.

Producer and remixer extraordinaire Keigo Oyamada, a.k.a Cornelius, has announced his first collection of all new music in over 11 years. Entitled Mellow Waves, the album is due out July 21st via Rostrum Records (June 28th in Japan). Mellow Waves comes over a decade after Sensuous, the last full-length released under the Cornelius moniker. Since then, Oyamada has released a number of remix albums and contributed to film and TV scores.

As a music and graphic duet, Gangpol & Mit have jointly developed, since 2002, a peculiar universe of digital pop inhabited by colorful and geometrical characters: a bunch of shy salarymen, call-center music lovers, or disturbed parking attendants jumping from mondofuturistic musicals to severe apocalyptic batucadas.
Their sonic and visual world find its roots and echoes the humour of duos like Yello or Sparks, hybrid arrangements of the French François de Roubaix, and narrative sides of cartoon and graphic novel classics, occasionally re-appropriating moods and tips from many adventurous music styles: digital cumbia, shibuya-kei, synthetic funk or disco dangdut.