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Gen Hoshino Talks Evolution of Creative Process & ‘Innocence’ in First New Album in 6 Years: Billboard Japan Monthly Feature Interview

Gen Hoshino sat down with Billboard Japan for its monthly series focusing on currently notable artists and works, to chat about his new album 'Gen.'

Gen Hoshino: The EP Same Thing that I released after POP VIRUS was a project that was like a “journey to find out about the outside of myself.” Until then, I’d basically been creating music on my own, but I wanted to know how other people were doing it and also to update my world. During the time I couldn’t leave the house, I taught myself how to produce music on a digital audio workstation (DAW) from scratch, and made a song called “Oriai” to try it out. I used to start out (writing songs) on my guitar, but with a DAW, I can use various sound sources and punch in the drums, bass, keyboards and stuff to create my own world by myself.

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