Distraction Therapy

This episode of Distraction Therapy moves through Japanese pop, rock, electronic music and soundtrack composition. It is not intended as a comprehensive account of Japanese music. [...]

What does it mean to use music as distraction? Does it take us away from immediate experience, or can it return us to the body, to [...]

This episode of Distraction Therapy moves through Japanese rock, electronic pop, dance music and independent digital production. Across the mix, familiar images return. Love. Silence. Distance. [...]

This episode of Distraction Therapy moves through music that exists between states. Between ambient suspension and rhythmic momentum. Between private memory and collective history. Between natural [...]

This episode of Distraction Therapy moves through a vivid field of contemporary Japanese pop, rock, hip-hop and electronic songcraft. The mix is bright, precise and [...]

This episode of Distraction Therapy moves through music that seems to arrive from elsewhere. Some of it feels as if it has been transmitted across [...]

This edition of Distraction Therapy moves through a contemporary Japanese and Japan-adjacent soundworld shaped by electronic minimalism, platform pop, balladry, actor-singer performance, soundtrack atmosphere, urban [...]

This  edition of Distraction Therapy follows a mix that moves through release, uncertainty, warmth, memory and late-night abstraction. It is not a mix built around [...]

This edition of Distraction Therapy moves through Japanese soundtrack music, technopop, electronic minimalism, guitar rock, singer-songwriter balladry and contemporary pop. What connects the tracks is [...]

There is a peculiar paradox at the heart of contemporary life. We have unprecedented access to information, techniques, systems and processes, yet many people struggle [...]