Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on May 2012

Fast-rapping world record holder Daddy Freddy and roots Rasta singer Solo Banton from the UK are among the cast to perform at Japan’s first Outlook Festival, along with a slew of domestic bass music fanatics. The event started five years ago in Croatia and is now Europe’s largest bass music and sound system culture festival. Among the local talents in the lineup at the weekend-long shindig are hip-hop crate diggers Force of Nature, a duo consisting of DJs KZA and Kent, electro pacesetters Dex Pistols, and leftfield rap honey Rumi.

Tabloid, May 26-27 (listing).