Label: EM Japan - All

Clan Caiman

Pica-Pau

Clan Caiman, led by composer Emilio Haro, is a group from Argentina, but their timeless, organic music transcends nationality. Pica-Pau (woodpecker),... more...

• 1 Tulipan
• 2 Paca-Pau
• 3 Tripa
• 4 Andanza

Yuji Takahashi & Mamoru Fujieda

Music for Cyber Cafe

In 1991, Yuji Takahashi and Mamoru Fujieda collaborated in staging a sound installation at the Sezon Museum of Art in Tokyo, making extensive use of t... more...

• 1 Morning
• 2 Afternoon
• 3 Evening
• 4 Night

Nora Guthrie

Emilys Illness / Home Before Dark

Nora, being the daughter of the giant of American folk Woody Guthrie - he whose guitar was once emblazoned with ''this machine kills fascists'' (boy d... more...

• 1 Emilys Illness
• 2 Home Before Dark

Hyu

Inaudible Works 1994-2008

16 pieces of hard-to-classify music, created during the period 1994-2008, a cornucopia of playful, intelligent, questing and eminently listenable elec... more...

• 01 Godel Escher Bach in the Circle of Fifths
• 02 Cutie Bam-boo Dance
• 03 Num
• 04 WigWig

Georgia + Dove

Air from Air

The poetry of the human voice encounters the magic of contemporary electronic musical technology. Heart, mind and spirit, conveyed by the word, are au... more...

• 1 07091521 - Heat of the Cheek
• 2 10102002 - Your Feet
• 3 30071845 - This is Bee Wine
• 4 13022078 - I’m Looking Down at Me Sinking

NTsKi

Calla

NTsKi, Japan-based vocalist/songwriter/producer; pronounced n-t-s-k-i. Calla is her 2nd album, a unified statement of her musical vision at this point... more...

• 01 Milk White Steed
• 02 If (Calla Version)
• 05 Hanauranai
• 06 Calla Lily

Kumachan Seal

Kumachan Seal

Kumachan Seal: solo project of Japanese vocalist / songwriter / producer Sairi Ojima, who has been playing in numerous indie bands, including Neco Nem... more...

• 01 Graze
• 02 Trap for Catching Wolf
• 03 Radonamin
• 04 Pedicure

Kojun

The Water Garden

A buoyant masterpiece from the early 90s, “The Water Garden” was created by Okinawa-born Kojun Kokuba under the inspiring image of a “happy Asia” thri... more...

• 1 Kaw
• 2 Parade
• 3 Lady with Chinese Parasol
• 4 Gate of Market

7FO / c/w

Healing Sword / Snake (Live)

Recommended by: Clone | Wrong Sal | Sil

“Surf synth acid dancehall rock!!” is how Jackson Bailey (Tapes/Rezzett) describes the A-side of this new release from Osaka’s 7FO. This 7'' single, m... more...

• 1 7FO - Healing Sword
• 2 c:w - Snake (Live)

Xiao Yun

Purple Garden

Here is a hidden gem from the 1990s, a sparkling cyber-ambient-Mandarin pop collection produced by Henry Kawahara, the master of cyber-occult music, w... more...

• 1 Purple Garden
• 2 Sweet Dreams
• 3 Green Island Serenade (oriental jazz mix)
• 4 Bamboo Christmas

Jun Arasaki and Nine Sheep

Kajyadhi-fu bushi (Visible Cloaks remix)

Printed on special paper embossed with matte silver aluminium foil. Please consider the jacket illustration as an image as the texture of the original... more...

• 1 Kajyadhi-fu bushi
• 2 Kajyadhi-fu bushi (Visible Cloaks remix)

Goat

New Games / Rhythm & Sound

Goat (formed by Koshiro Hino / YPY) will soon start their 2nd Europe tour in 2018 including a new annual series of events called MODE curated by Ryuic... more...

• 1 New Games
• 2 std
• 3 Solid Eye
• 4 Ghosts Part 1

Roland P. Young

Spontaneous Bounce

EM Records celebrates Roland P. Young’s 80th adventurous year on the planet with “Spontaneous Bounce”, the sixth RPY solo release on the label. After... more...

• 01 Push
• 02 You
• 03 Wavetables
• 04 Upstairs

Roland P. Young

Isophonic Boogie Woogie

2022 Reissue of the legendary 5-track first LP from horn wizard & original underground FM radio DJ Young, featuring soprano sax, clarinet, and electro... more...

• 1 Crystal Motions
• 2 Flutter Fly Flounce
• 3 Row Land
• 4 Loveliness

Chisako & Junta

Konnan (Difficulty)

Osaka based Chisako and Junta is a vocal unit of MTG (Chisako), a member of Casio Toruko Onsen, and BIOMAN (Junta), a musician/DJ/designer and membe... more...

• 1 Konnan (Difficulty)

Henry Kawahara

Minami-kaze Wave

Recommended by: Wrong Sal

This work is produced by Henry Kawahara, following the well-received Cybernetic Defiance and Orgasm: The Essential Henry Kawahara, and the only ‘vocal... more...

• 1 Minami-kaze Wave

Henry Kawahara

Cybernetic Defiance and Orgasm: The Essential Henry Kawahara

Here is a portal to a vast and relatively unknown world, the Japanese cyber-occult underground media scene of the early 1990s; our guide is the late H... more...

Various Artists

Classic Productions by Surin Phaksiri 2: Molam Gems from the 1960s-80s

EM Records again shines the spotlight on legendary Thai producer Surin Phaksiri in this second edition of his classic productions from the 1960s-80s.... more...

• 01 Keawta Prayalae - Handsome Guy
• 02 Lumyai Sungkamani - Call Me Please
• 03 Lam Phloen Putting a Girl in Her Place
• 04 Chomsawai Saentawisok - Keawta Lam Phloen

NTsKi ft. Dove

On Divination in Sleep (Takao remixes)

A single cut from the debut album ''Orca'' by NTsKi, a Kyoto-based electronic music producer/performer. It is a 7'' single that couples ''Takao Remix'... more...

• 1 On Divination in Sleep (Takao remix)
• 2 On Divination in Sleep (Takao instrumental mix)

Futoshi Moriyama

Yutai ridatsu (plus-minus)

Futoshi Moriyama is an Osaka-based electronic music producer who began his musical career in the early 2000s improvised music hothouse of Osaka’s Shin... more...

• 1 Introduction B
• 2 Nico Electro
• 3 Question
• 4 Kikkake

Chabaphrai Namwai & Banyen Rakkaen

Lam Phloen Songthaew Fanclub

A one-sided 7” single! A great and rare song, never before reissued, an early 80s electric molam classic produced by Surin Phaksiri. This release cele... more...

• 1 Lam Phloen Songthaew Fanclub

Shintaro Sakamoto x VIDEOTAPEMUSIC

A Night in Bangkok EP

This collaboration by Tokyo producers/musicians Shintaro Sakamoto and VIDEOTAPEMUSIC, was the first of two EM Records 12''-only ''tribute releases'',... more...

• 1 A Dream in Bangkok (ft. Fuko Nakamura)
• 2 A Night in Bangkok
• 3 Disco Bangkok
• 4 A Dream in Bangkok (Instrumental)

Henry Kawahara

Cybernetic Defiance and Orgasm: The Essential Henry Kawahara

Recommended by: Clone

Here is a portal to a vast and relatively unknown world, the Japanese cyber-occult underground media scene of the early 1990s; our guide is the late H... more...

• 01 In My Relationship with You, I Think about Myself on the Bed (Panpot Version)
• 02 Primitive Love (Genshi no ai - Delayed Version)
• 03 Start on a Journey
• 04 Sound LSD (radio version)

Emerson Kitamura

The Countryside is Great EP

Recommended by: Sil

Most welcome re-press of the last in Em's series of 12” in support of the film Bangkok Nites (soundtrack CD also on Em). Kitamura is a renowned vetera... more...

• 1 The Countryside is Great
• 2 Lam Phloen Salab Khonsawan (Bassline)
• 3 Rock Your Baby (featuring mmm)
• 4 The Countryside is Great (Version)

Clan Caiman

Asoma

Clan Caimán returns to EM Records for their second album, continuing the instinctive evolution of their music: a wordless, timeless, gently pulsing an... more...

• 1 Asoma (Rises)
• 2 Caceria (Hunting)
• 3 Tribu (Tribe)
• 4 Risco (Crag)