Takako Minekawa

Beginning her career as one of Shibuya-kei's most adventurous artists and gradually moving into more experimental terrain, Takako Minekawa defines her music with a playful sense of wonder. On her early albums, she pursued a fascinating mix of innocence and complexity; 1996's Roomic Cube and 1999's Fun9 paired lyrics about cats, tigers, and spiders with music that paid homage to innovators such as Kraftwerk, Yellow Magic Orchestra, and Stereolab. When she returned in the 2010s after a decade-long hiatus, she expanded on the inventive side of her music. Whether in her sound inst...