Gil Masuda: Hip - Hop Vinyl | Session 32 ⚡️💎⚡️
Gil Masuda stepped into the booth to lay down an effortless run of hip-hop curation, tracking everything from classic remixes to the modern sounds pushing the culture forward today.
Great energy from the first needle drop. Tap the link in our bio to watch the full session on YouTube now! 🎬🔊
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#PDRSessions #GilMasuda #HipHopVinyl #PlayDeRecord #CrateDigging
This Friday, May 22nd we welcome the one and only @djspinna to the booth. A DJ’s DJ. A bona fide Party Rocker. An accomplished Music Producer. A true Music Aficionado.
With support by DJs @gil.masuda and @mistajiggz . Doors at 9pm sharp. We hope to see you there!
Catch my all-vinyl City Pop set tomorrow 8-10pm @915dupont for the @sapporocanada live series. The event will also feature sets by @nitin_ and @soulinthehorn fam @l3ni (Brooklyn, NY). No cover. First come, first served! Don’t miss it!!
Your weekly reminder to catch me and my cute mug at @thedrakehotel for Sushi & City Pop! ☺️
This is a crazy good album by Rie Kitahara. Some interesting Japanese covers of songs like Mas Que Nada, Evil Ways etc but my fav jam is this very MJesque track Just Feeling. Speaking of, who’s seen Michael yet??
Sushi & City Pop continues today and every Tuesday at @thedrakehotel lounge!
Sushi & City Pop
DJ Gil Masuda
Every Tuesday at The Drake lounge
6pm-930pm
#toronto #torontoeats #sushi #torontothingstodo #citypop
Excited to announce a very special guest for Oishi this Saturday, the legendary OG crate digger @djamir70 ! The Kon & Amir mix tapes really changed the game for me and many other DJs/vinyl heads. Needless to say, this will be one for the books!
Minutes with Mia - A series of episodes where @gil.masuda and I talk about the process of writing my debut album In The Moonlight. The Series begins next week leading up the the albums official release date May 29th more details to come :)
We can’t have a discussion about City Pop without giving praise to @anri1105 .
We love City Pop because it invokes images of a summer love, walks on the beach, feelings of shyness and even loneliness. These themes coupled with some very sophisticated production and incredible musicianship are the reason City Pop works great in any setting.
Catch Anri’s song, “Remember Summer Days” during my set at @thedrakehotel today, and make sure to catch her NY and LA shows next month! Maybe we can persuade her to stop by Toronto as well?? ☺️
Sushi & City Pop continues today and every Tuesday at @thedrakehotel lounge!
Sushi & City Pop
DJ Gil Masuda
Every Tuesday at The Drake lounge
6pm-930pm
#toronto #torontoeats #anri #torontothingstodo #citypop
Five million people live in the Greater Toronto Area. I have been one of them my whole life, and for most of it I have watched the city struggle to build rooms that actually matter.
Not rooms that are popular. Not rooms that are packed on a Saturday. Rooms that hold culture. The Wellington. Cameron House. RPM. Club Oz. Industry.
Each of them had their moment and each of them meant something to the people who found them. But few of them combined what this room called 915 Dupont has become: a sound philosophy, a design identity, a curatorial vision, and the freedom to let artists be fully themselves. Toronto has never quite managed all four at once. Until now.
The listening bar began in Japan in the 1950s. Kissaten. Small rooms built on the belief that music deserved your full attention and a space designed to hold it properly.
When you walk into 915 Dupont you feel that lineage. A noren curtain at the entrance. No signage. Wood furniture from the 1960s arranged without formula. Japanese paper lamps.
A zen garden sitting quietly in one of the rooms. A disco ball catching light near the door. By day vintage Sansui and Marantz amplifiers from the 1970s push sound through JBL L100s and Altec 19s.
By night Nigel Wang's McIntosh MC275 amplifiers drive Altec 803B horns and the room becomes something else entirely. Two entirely separate sound systems for two versions of the same space. That level of intention is a philosophy not a feature.
But a room is only as good as what gets played through it.
Gil Masuda has been the curatorial mind behind the programming here since the beginning, choosing artists the way a great editor chooses writers.
With conviction.
With range.
With enough trust to let them play without a ceiling on where the night could go. That freedom is what separates a room from a venue.
Oishi is his monthly night and it has quietly become part of what makes this city worth paying attention to.
Tomorrow night I am behind the decks alongside Gil. 70s and 80s funk and boogie. Doors at 9.
**Pre-order MIA “In The Moonlight” vinyl LP now @starcreaturevibes **
Six years ago the stars aligned when @timzawada connected me and @miahoneydeux via Instagram comment and our first track, Love Me Right was born. 6 million #spotify streams later, here we are celebrating MIA‘s debut album. This is also the first album where Gil Masuda is credited with producing every single track, so needless to say it’s a major milestone for both of us. Special thanks to my co-producers, @beskept_@mixfoley@a.d.kheroufi who helped make this album what I envisioned. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Hiroshi Satoh was once invited to join collaborator, Haruomi Hosono’s electronic band Yellow Magic Orchestra, but he declined. We’re happy about that because this classic City Pop record may have never been made.
Sushi & City Pop continues today and every Tuesday at @thedrakehotel lounge!
Sushi & City Pop
DJ Gil Masuda
Every Tuesday at The Drake lounge
6pm-930pm
#toronto #hiroshisatoh #parkdaletoronto #torontothingstodo #citypop
Star Creature is proud to announce the worldwide release of MIA – In The Moonlight.
The long-awaited debut from Miami’s Queen of Bedroom Boogie arrives with 8 tracks of synth-drenched, outer-space, introspective, function-ready tunes. Produced by Toronto’s Gil Masuda, the album delivers her signature sound—intimate funk slappers built for the dancefloor, but just as fitting for a night in (vertical or horizontal).
After years of sold-out 7"s, coast-to-coast touring, and a growing global cult following, MIA steps fully into orbit. Her first contact with Star Creature was in 2020 where TZ linked her with Gil Masuda for the modern boogie anthem "Love Me Right". The crew reassembled last year for the now sought-after "I Don’t Know / Key 2 Luv" 7. Another successful launch but the mission was not complete...
The stars aligned. Six new tracks followed and the debut album has been officially cleared for take off. Housed in a fresh gatefold sleeve designed and curated by MIA herself, In The Moonlight is ready to soundtrack everything in the night.
