JP

Nujabes

Company

Independent Label Council Japan

Profile

He is the head of Hydeout Productions, an independent label that has succeeded in gaining an absolute following by releasing purely sound works without any advertising, contrary to the current trend of the music industry as a whole.
Although he has passed away in 2010, he was regained attention from abroad by the lo-fi hiphop movement in recent years, and in 2018, Spotify announced that he was the 3rd most listened to Japanese artist in the world, and the 1st in the US.