Mara TK, a graduate of the Red Bull Music Academy in Toronto, has collaborated not only with Electric Wire Hustle but also with Om'Mas Keith of Sa-Ra Creative Partners, Waajeed—a Detroit producer known for his collaborations with J Dilla—and Steve Spacek, among others, and has also contributed to works by Lord Echo.
This collaboration, which be ...Read more (Original Japanese text by COMPUMA)gan with bases in the UK, Kenya, and Uganda, / community-based music platform Extra Soul Perception, this album—released in 2021—unfolds a series of downtempo/beatdown soul tracks with a touch of melancholy and wistfulness, featuring a delicate, refreshing, and somewhat wistful vocal tone set against a backdrop of soft, crystalline instrumentation. It’s a wonderful album with a charm that sinks deeper the more you listen. The opening track, “Fam Forgiveness”—featuring alien vocals, a beautiful falsetto, and a dark, introspective ambient soul sound—is also great. (Original Japanese text by COMPUMA)

Summer Eye has been the talk of the town, sweeping music lovers across Japan — no, across all of Asia — into a whirlwind of good vibes with knockout live shows. Now the buzzed-about new song "Mango" — one! ten! hundred! thousand! MANGO! — gets an exclusive 7-inch release!
Side A, "Mango," is an exclusive recording (sample1): a downtempo soul, ra ...Read more (Original Japanese text by COMPUMA)unchy party tune where love and dance burst out juicy, with acid-tinged flavoring in the back half — a breezy, high-humidity coming-of-age tropical Latin psych singer-songwriter funk. Side B features a self-remix by the artist himself, "Mango (Remix)" (sample2), where that youthful mango feeling pops out in goofy, funky fashion through the gaps of a stumbling breakbeat, slow-mo breakcore dancehall riddim. A special 7-inch that only Summer Eye could deliver. (Original Japanese text by COMPUMA)