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Not yet, although the number of infections are so low in Tokyo compared to other places and I only know a few people who have had it. Think Japan's luck might be about to run out though with omicron.

Thanks both of you, will give all of this a listen.

Admittedly I've been paying a lot more attention to dancehall so may have missed loads, but did the London take on amapiano/afrohouse dry up a bit at least in terms of tracks/releases? Was thinking about standout tracks this year and I could think of some belonging to that sound from early 2021...

Can't really comment on Alkaline from a historical perspective given basically all my serious dancehall listening has come in the last 12 months and has mostly been focused on tracks released in that time, but the stuff from this year hasn't really clicked for me (thinking mostly of the album...

The live-action Ghost in the Shell is surely down there. Even setting aside the casting of Scarlett Johansson, it's just such a terrible film by any standard - or at least it was for the 30 minutes I saw before I had to turn it off.

Yeah a real disappointment, the beat isn't up to much. Not drill-related but this is better.

Ladies Edition is relentless in this respect and that's part of why it's the weaker tape for me. Still some good tracks on there, and I have a lot of love for Choppa Gyal even if that feels a bit more trap than dancehall, and generally when the balance tips too far that way, that's when...

Also about the drill x dancehall thing, it seems Unknown T (and maybe some people in 98s?) have done a tune with Skillibeng - he was in Jamaica shooting a video with Skillibeng about a month ago. Drill rappers have been referencing Skillibeng since about late last year so kind of felt like...

Was planning to throw a bunch of tunes in this thread earlier in the week but didn't get round to it. This thread basically set my musical direction this year so need to give something back although some of the things I had in mind to share have been posted since. Anyway:

Version's "revealing the map"

Youtube-dl is the one if you don't mind the fact it's not 100% user friendly.

The new Carns Hill album Founding Father is solid throughout but I'd say that's pretty rare for UK drill.

I was trying to track this down to share it with someone and now YouTube says it doesn't exist. What happened?

Is Craner into City Pop? It feels like he should be.

This has maybe changed a bit with Fumez's Plugged In series, although I think the motivation for that is less about showing the "audio kit" than drawing attention away from reaction vids with the way it cuts to Fumez's reactions (incidentally, I often think he looks disappointed/underwhelmed...

I don't think many people are dressing like that casually, it's more for Instagram - it's basically cosplay, really. Insofar as techwear is militaristic, and it definitely is to an extent, it's not to that much more of a degree than something like say Maharishi. Then if you look at something...

His hair caught fire while filming an advert for them.

Wow, you absolutely destroyed me there Version! There's still plenty of that sound knocking about, but I do feel things have evolved in a different direction in the last year or so - bouncier, more agile drums, more vocal-like synth sounds. I wonder if the reason the sound you talk about still...

Pre-COVID so many people were coming to Japan on holiday and I wonder how that has changed perceptions (most tourists were Chinese and Korea, but the number of people from Europe and the US went up a lot too). If I had to guess, food would be a big area - actually going to an izakaya, having...