Last Train, Kato Konpyuta’s debut single, is out now on Konpyuta Records.
It’s midnight in Shibuya. His phone says 終電 0:12, the last train home, and he misses it by a second. Nothing runs until 4:58, so he spends the night recording the city instead: the crossing chirp, a vending machine, the izakaya, a stray cat. Then he walks back to the studio and turns it into music.
listen.
last train home.
A slow-to-fast playlist for the ride home: 22 tracks from Kato’s floor, Shibuya-kei, city pop, jazz-funk and breaks, with Last Train right where the set lifts.
Last Train is the first track from the Shibuya EP, which follows soon.