mountains of emotions

Hotel New Tokyo M3 - Succession

“Good Life” is a warm, soulful celebration of peace, love, and togetherness. Set against a timeless riddim backdrop, the song flows with heartfelt lyrics about living drama-free, embracing comfort, and cherishing the small moments that become lifelong memories. With themes of reliability, intimacy, and manifesting dreams into reality, the track captures the beauty of being fully present in love — sharing meals, sharing ideas, and walking side by side through life. Uplifting, nostalgic, and deeply tender, “Good Life” is a soundtrack to joy, harmony, and genuine connection.

Good Life

Remixed by Magical Mistakes
http://magicalmistakes.com/

Released from Phaseworks
http://www.phase-works.com/

More For Me, More For You (Magical Mistakes Remix)

HONNE - Warm On A Cold Night - Sofar London

Aloha Got Soul's first collab release with the Kakubarhythm label, featuring Japan's Your Song Is Good with Nick Kurosawa and Videotapemusic. 

In May 2017, Aloha Got Soul and Kakubarhythm hosted their first party together with ‘Soul Time in Tokyo’ at Tokyo Cultuart by Beams in Harajuku. 

At the event, Your Song Is Good and Videotapemusic performed an instrumental cover version of Babadu’s “We’re Not To Blame”. Hearing that song reinterpreted by musicians 35 years from the original release date and thousands of miles away from Hawaii gave me chicken skin. 

But the magic didn’t end there. At the end of our DJ set with the crowd yelling “Hana hou!” for one last track, I reached into my record bag and grabbed my OG copy of Babadu LP and dropped the needle on “We’re Not To Blame”. Videotapemusic, JxJx, and Izumi Matsui instinctively picked up their instruments and we closed out the Beams party with a surprise jam session none of us had anticipated! 

When we started planning for 2018, I pitched JxJx the idea of releasing their instrumental cover on a 7-inch. When the final recording arrived, it was around the same time we were recording Nick Kurosawa’s debut EP, so I asked Nick if he’d be down to lend his soulful voice to the instrumental. 

The “Coast to Coast” EP, releasing April 21, 2018 on Aloha Got Soul and Kakubarhythm, represents a unique opportunity for us to connect the past and the present, and as bridge the musical relationship we share between Hawaii and Japan. 

Available in limited quantities.

A1. Cruise
B1. "We 're Not To Blame" feat Nick Kurosawa ※ BABADU COVER
B2. "We 're Not To Blame" feat VIDEOTAPEMUSIC ※ BABADU COVER

"We're Not To Blame feat Nick Kurosawa" (excerpt)

JULIEN DYNE - falling' down feat. parks (Mitsu The Beats Remix)

DJ Mitsu The Beats-Rendezvous (feat mark de clive-lowe)

Kaza slows it down on this one and enlists the help of Finnish singer Tuomo to produce a top notch modern soul gem. Tuomo is a singer, jazz pianist, composer, lyricist and producer with numerous jazz, retro and northern albums under his belt. He hooks up with Kaza to give us a track that could have been a b-side nugget on a rare soul 45 that got lost in a strange warehouse in Delaware. But it aint, this is 2012 and this is still raw as hell.

Kazahaya -  Gonna Love You Anyway feat Tuomo

DJ Mitsu the Beats / Night In Vienna

Impure

Aloha Got Soul is a Honolulu-based record label breaking the conventions of what music from Hawai‘i should sound like.

"We're Not To Blame feat Nick Kurosawa" (excerpt)

Aloha Got Soul

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