After Lo-Fi Ghibli, Lo-Fi City Pop and Timeless Lo-Fi, the Japanese beatmaker turns to anime standards. Ten themes including 'Kimi no Shiranai Monogatari', 'Tamashii no Refrain' and 'Moonlight Densetsu', re-laid over unhurried drums. Pressed on pink vinyl, out January 2027.
Tehran on the eve of the 1979 revolution, where the kick of Western funk and soul met deep Persian tradition and grew something genuinely strange. Zia's 'Helelyos' is the standout: hard brass, a shadowy melody and restless percussion, broken up by wild humming and whistling. Ten tracks, reaching from the era's heavyweights down to buried obscurities.