Hot Cha has become the Tokyo home of slightly askew pop. From the arty, new-wave gyrations of Delaware to Fan Boy There's equally arty jazz inflections, the label attempts to reshape Tokyo's pop landscape in its own eccentric image.
Every few months or so, Hot Cha director Hiroyuki Kobayashi takes the label's eclectic ethic live with Free Form Freakout. With its diverse slate of bands (some on the label, others not), Freakout is like a snapshot of Tokyo's music underground: a summation of what's hot or happening at any given moment.
The Boredoms seem to be perpetually happening, and, with their endless number of spinoff groups, are a scene unto themselves. This edition of Freakout features a newer Boredoms-related group, Universal Errors.