Label: EM Japan - All

Kiyoaki Iwamoto

SOUGI (love will tear us apart)

Forty years ago this summer, Joy Division released what became their only chart hit, Love Will Tear Us Apart. December 1982, Tokyo. Kiyoaki Iwamoto... more...

• 1 Period
• 2 Even If You Can See Hell
• 3 In the Sad Town
• 4 Dont Go Too Far Away

Tapes

Summer Jam / Salavere

Tapes is back! EM Records is very happy to bring you the latest from the artist known as Tapes, here with a 10-inch that, with its good vibes, positiv... more...

• 1 summer jam
• 2 Salavere

Juu & G. Jee

New Luk Thung

Recommended by: Gustav Goodstuff

Never colonized, Thailand has remained purely itself across the years even while developing, evolving and selectively adopting international influence... more...

• 01 Time 2 Yam (Feat. MMM & Chinza DOPENESS)
• 02 Niang
• 03 Rah Oei Rah
• 04 She Ray

The Kasai Osharaku Preservation Society and others

Osharaku

Recommended by: Clone

Osharaku is a traditional Japanese form of musical entertainment, featuring mainly voice, shamisen and percussion, with a repertoire of folk and popul... more...

• 1 Takasago (Soudai Bushi)
• 2 Kisarazu (Soudai Bushi)
• 3 Shiramasu Konaya
• 5 Hosoda no Kawa

Various Artists

Classic Productions by Surin Phaksiri: Luk Thung Gems from the 1960s-80s

This collection of 12 luk thung* songs from the 1960s-70s, all produced by Surin Phaksiri, is a superb showcase of cross-genre/multi-national fertiliz... more...

• 01 Buppa Saichon - Won Lom Fak Rak
• 02 Sumit Satchethep - Khor Than Rak
• 03 Kawao Siangthong - Wimarn Chamlong
• 04 Banchop Charoenporn - Sao Sao Yah Wao Lai

The Kizaki Odori Preservation Society and Clark Naito

Kizaki Ondo

Recommended by: Gustav Goodstuff

Insane prediction of distorted techno, all made by local folkloric musicians in the 80s.

• 1 Kizaki Ondo Preservation Society - Kizaki Ondo
• 2 Kizaki Ondo Preservation Society - Kizaki Ondo (1981 Instrumental)
• 3 Clark Naito - Kizaki Ondo
• 4 Clark Naito - Kizaki Ondo (2018 instrumental)

The Sakai Ishinage Odori Preservation Society

Sakai Ishinage Odori

Recommended by: Gustav Goodstuff

Heavy 1980s regional festival taiko drum ensemble more...

• 1 Yose Daiko
• 2 Ishinage Odori
• 3 Bukkiri Daiko
• 4 Yose Daiko (Sugai Ken mix)

Martoc

Music For Alien Ears

John Lydon's favourite electronic artist, great indie 80s gear. Sound system sound effects in a private press bedroom style. more...

• 01 Navigator Through Nowhere
• 02 Helen Is A Hologram
• 03 The Vigilante Rules
• 04 Nightmare Trip

Synth Sisters

Euphoria

Excellent meditative electronics from Osakan duo. more...

• 1 W O N D E R F U L
• 2 Labyrinth
• 3 Euphoria
• 4 She Sang

Alexandra Atnif

Rhythmic Brutalism Vol. 1

US based Romanian artist, does what it says on the tin. Also available, volume 2. more...

• 01 Pillars Of Insanity
• 02 Ephemeral Moments Of Mental Clarity
• 03 Adore & Detest
• 04 Perspective Transparencies

Mari Sekine

Beginning (Lena Willikens remix)

“Beginning” is, appropriately enough, the world-wide solo debut by Japanese percussionist Mari Sekine. She has been active since 2000 with numerous... more...

• 1 Beginning (original)
• 2 Beginning (Lena Willikens Remix)

Takao

Stealth

Recommended by: Mattheis

”Stealth” is certainly an apt title for this disarming collection of crypto-New Age. From its opening, one might be forgiven for assuming that what fo... more...

• 01 Stealth
• 02 Water Music
• 03 Boat
• 04 Matsura

Kohei Amada & Sugai Ken

Shinshunfu (With insert in English & Japanese and rare photos)

Recommended by: Gustav Goodstuff

''Shinshunfu'' exists at a crossroads, a form both distinctly Japanese and distinctly ''other'', a complex blend of folk strains that is deep with emo... more...

• 1 Shinshunfu (1970 recording)
• 2 Shinshunfu (Sugai Ken rework)

No Right Turn

No Right Turn

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• 01 Roller Coaster
• 02 Lawlands Away
• 03 What Do You Do
• 04 Waves

From Scratch

Five Rhythm Works

Meditative percussion jams..

• 1 Out In (part 1)
• 2 Drumwheel (part 2)
• 3 5, 6, 7 & 6, 7, 8 From Gung Ho 1, 2, 3D
• 4 Passage

Shigeo Tanaka

Yumi Kagura

Japanese folk!

• 1 Takusa Saimon
• 2 Inagahachiman Jinja Yumi Kagura Hono

Dont DJ

Hyperspace Is No Place

We are, of course, always keen to receive any new music that comes through from the Don't DJ collective - particularly on their own Diskant imprint -... more...

• 1 Hyperspace Is The Place
• 2 Forest People Plot
• 3 Hyperspace Is No Place
• 4 Evolove Version

Ryu No Nukegara

7FO

Recommendable electronix from Japan! Comes with an insert.. more...

• 1 Hou
• 2 Ten
• 3 Mi
• 4 Sou

Lieven Martens Moana

Three Amazonian Essays

Recommended by: Clone

Belgian composer Lieven Martens Moana, formerly known as Dolphins Into The Future, interprets and re-imagines Spaniard Juan Alberto Arteche Guel's 199... more...

• 1 Music For A Clearing (For Joji Yuasa & Juan Alberto Of Finis Africae)
• 2 Port Of Spain (Lento) (A Prelude For Pele Flores Martens)
• 3 Sinfonieta Amazonia (Small Abstractions Of The Rainforest & The River For Toru Takemitsu & Charles Ives)

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

John Gibbs & The U. S. Steel Orchestra

Trinidad

Last few of this Paradise Garage evergreen, with previously unreleased longer version.

• 1 Trinidad (special disco mix - long version)
• 2 Trinidad (special disco mix)

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)

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)

JUU4E

Crazy World

A true solo album, all the tracks here are performed/arranged/produced by JUU4E, with the final mix provided by Young-G of stillichimiya/OMK. With a v... more...

• 01 U Wanna Go Somewhere? (skit)
• 02 Dawn Weed
• 03 Netizens
• 04 Preservation and Development

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)

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)