Waseda University’s Waseda Music Records to Host Music Event “pulp” Embracing Early Midsummer Vibes in April

Waseda Music Records, a student music label circle officially recognized by Waseda University, will hold the music event “pulp” at Shimokitazawa LIVE HAUS in Tokyo on Tuesday, April 9.

This year’s event will focus on Latin American music cultures such as dub and reggae, which have been attracting renewed attention in Japan in recent years, and invite artists who sublimate their fertile sounds with a hybrid sensibility to create an enthusiastic yet airy sound space.

The live performances will include TAMTAM, a Japanese four-piece band that is gaining worldwide attention with the release of their new EP “Ramble In The Rainbow” on the Washington, DC-based Peoples Potential Unlimited label in January 2024, as well as the world The lineup includes VIDEOTAPEMUSIC, an artist who expresses himself through both music and video by mixing landscapes and sounds from various countries with his own “exotic” sense, and Love Wonderland, a reggae band formed around Takujuro Iwade, who is absent today, with the slogan “Lovers Rock on the other shore.

DJs include hxxxi, who plays mainly reggae and dub at “Loosy Lounge,” a regular event at Sound Space Doosler in Shinjuku, Tokyo, and the Shimokitazawa-based “Too Young To Love” party series crew, who also perform at Jingumae Bonobo in Tokyo and Suigetsu in Tokyo. Zooey Loomer 1979, a member of the Shimokitazawa-based party series “Too Young To Love” and active in a wide range of venues including Jingumae bonobo in Tokyo and Suigetsu in Shibuya, Tokyo, and Convexity, who performs at various clubs and bars without being bound by any genre. The event will also feature food.

Food will also be served at the event. Advance tickets are now on sale at livepocket. The student discount is 2,700 yen, which applies to students other than Waseda University students, and the general ticket price is 3,000 yen.