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Soshi Takeda: Balearic Daydreams

Hazy house and nostalgic new age from Tokyo

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Stephan Kunze
Sep 19, 2025
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The end of summer fills me with sweet, aching melancholy, and the perfect company for that beautiful sadness is the music of Japanese producer Soshi Takeda.

Takeda employs analog hardware to painstakingly recreate 1980s new age sounds and vintage house grooves, creating something new and fresh in the process – a “post-vaporwave take on deep house”, as wr…

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