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Beat & ambient producer TOMC's new track is his first real "lo-fi hiphop" track, featuring the warm and gentle sounds of Fender Rhodes piano. Since 2021, he has released one jazz hip-hop album and one ambient album on the popular Canadian label Inner Ocean Records, and this track "Innocence" is the full-fledged fusion of the two genres.

The use of spatial reverb, the warmth of record-like textures, and the elaborate environmental sounds in the middle to the end of the track, all of these characteristics can be combined without any sense of discomfort, which is only possible with his career as an expert in both beats and ambient music. The artwork, with its hazy blue color that evokes the time of day, either dusk or dawn, is also symbolic of the artist himself, who actively challenges the boundaries of genres under the theme of city life.

His latest single "Place To Be" was picked up by Spotify's global playlist "All New Jazz", and we can't take our eyes off his ongoing musical adventures that transcend genres.

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Innocence

Spotify • Best New Music: DIGLE SOUND • 7 Nov 2022

Artist Profile

  • TOMC

    Beat & Ambient producer. He has released works on labels such as Inner Ocean Records in Canada and Local Visions in Japan. He has been expanding the listenership base both in Japan and abroad. Since 2020, his EP "Lunar Maria" has been #1 on the iTunes Japan chart and "Stories & Studies" has been #2. Since 2022, several songs including "Honesty (feat. arcomoon)" have been ranked on the Apple Music U.S. chart. His latest album, "True Life," released in 2023, has been called "the Nujabes 'Modal Soul' of the 2020s," and was selected as one of the best albums of the year by the music media Small Music, among others. In recent years, he has joined Stone Music, a collective of improvisers formed by Tokio Hasegawa (Taj Mahal Travelers). He also has a long career as a DJ of house, disco, and R&B music, and is active outside the boundaries of the music scene. With his extensive knowledge of both major and minor music, he contributes to web media such as Cyzo and Mikiki, as well as to record stores such as Kankyo Records and Disk Union. He has also made numerous media appearances, including on J-WAVE, Tokyo's largest radio station.

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