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Satoshi & Makoto

Mirage Cafe

Six years after their last full-length release, Satoshi & Makoto return with Café Mirage, the highly anticipated new album on 8mm Records, in collabor... more...

• 1 Diverge Grid
• 2 Filter and Fluttersample
• 3 Slow Dissolution
• 4 Contrast

Susumu Yokota

Skintone Edition Vol.1

Susumu Yokota - Skintone Edition Vol.1, celebrating the life and work of one of electronic music's greatest innovaters. Lo Recordings is honoured t... more...

Joe Hisaishi

Tale Of The Princess Kaguya (OST)

2LP gatefold pressing of this Ghibli anime classic by the master, Joe Hisaishi.

Mermaid

Dub Forever

Ltd to 500 copies. Following the buzz of his first LP DUBMAID, Tokyo-based producer MERMAID unveils his much-anticipated new LP, DUB FOREVER. DU... more...

• 01 bach dub
• 02 money
• 03 kappa
• 04 a nap

Various Artists

Manga New Age Soundtracks 1984-1993

The percussive new age soundtracks of '80s and early '90s Japanese TV, anime and manga built alternative worlds and pushed boundaries in the process.... more...

• 1 Korogi 73 - Fushigi Song
• 2 Yas-Kaz - Hei (Theme of Shikioni)
• 3 Yoichiro Yoshikawa - Tassili N Ajjer
• 4 Norihiro Tsuru - Farsighted Person

Various Artists

Re-Form Ver-1.0

WRWTFWW's 5th archival release taken from cult Tokyo label FORM@ RECORDS' catalogue, this time with the first-ever vinyl edition of Re-Form Ver-1.0. T... more...

• 1 Missing Project - Poisson D'avril (Da' Future Given A Deep Soul Mix)
• 2 Virgo - First Epilogue (Tek Of 606 Remix)
• 3 Tensor - Balloon (I.D. Remix)
• 4 Penance - Cure Of Soul (Fossil Mix)

Tomo Katsurada

Dream of the Egg

Solid Red Vinyl Edition - 10 inch Mini album. Originally release in 2025 in a painfully limited 2x7 + Book edition. Dream of the Egg is the debut s... more...

• 1 moshimo
• 2 zen bungalow
• 3 interlude
• 4 inner garden

Susumu Yokota

Laputa (Skintone Edition)

Laputa, a title taken from the fantastical floating island of Gulliver's Travels is aptly named as ''The album that never landed'' for, apart from a l... more...

• 01 Rising Sun
• 02 Lost Ring
• 03 Gong Gong Gong
• 04 Iconic Air

Various Artists

Tanoshikatta LP

Deeply rooted in Japanese culture, Tanoshii Crew returns with an extraordinary new musical connection from Yamato, released through Tanoshii Records.... more...

• 1 Juma - Night Chapel White Labyrinth
• 2 Zen Oikawa - Flow
• 3 nii-otto - Tenmonmushi
• 4 Yuma Ogata feat. Kohei Uchida - Anemone

Virgo

More Ambient Techno Classics From Japan

These Virgo cuts were made between 1996 and 2000 and released on a limited CD only release from Form@ Records but as yet never seen light of day on vi... more...

• 1 New Era
• 2 Metasequoia
• 3 The Art Roots
• 4 Time Graphics

Tomo Katsurada & Misha Panfilov

Dream of the Egg

Solid Red Vinyl Edition - 10 inch Mini album. Originally release in 2025 in a painfully limited 2x7 + Book edition. Dream of the Egg is the debut s... more...

• 01 mostra
• 02 boundless
• 03 cymbal symbol
• 04 private party

aus isoda

Interwoven

A deeply moving collaborative album from Ken-ichiro Isoda and aus (Yasuhiko Fukuzono). Recorded between Hachijo Island and Tokyo, Interwoven distills... more...

• 1 Valleria
• 2 Autumn Has Broken
• 3 Veiled
• 4 White Eye

Yasuhito Ohno

Music in DNA

Music in DNA is an album recorded in the early 1980s in New York City by Yasuhito Ohno, a young Japanese man breaking free from the constraints of his... more...

• 1 gotta get going
• 2 logic of randomness
• 3 biology
• 4 from the window

Geinoh Yamashirogumi

Ecophony Rinne

Recommended by: Wrong Sal

Before Akira there was Ecophony Rinne. Originally released in 1986, Ecophony Rinne is a four-part symphony of “ecological music” by Geinoh Yamashirogu... more...

• 1 Movement I - Primordial Germination
• 2 Movement II - Falling As Flowers Do - Dying a Glorious Death
• 3 Movement III - Dark Slumber
• 4 Movement IV - Reincarnation

Various Artists

Art Form 2

Recommended by: Kennedy

The first-ever vinyl release of Art Form 2, the seminal 1998 Various Artists compilation from Tokyo's cult label FORM@ RECORDS, now available as a lim... more...

• 01 Circle Limit - Insence
• 02 Led-M - 713AW
• 03 Missing Project - Poisson D'Avril
• 04 Virgo - Clear Columns

Various Artists

Art Form I

The first-ever vinyl release of Art Form I, the overlooked 1997 compilation from Tokyo's cult imprint FORM@ RECORDS, now available as a limited editio... more...

• 01 Mag-Net-Walker - Rover
• 02 Tensor - Gently Drifting
• 03 Minerva - Dreamers Notion
• 04 Souther - Jupiter

Susumu Yokota

Skintone Edition Vol.1

Yokota redefined ambient music with a series of 14 extraordinary albums, released from 1998 through to 2012. Skintone Edition commemorates the singula... more...

Susumu Yokota

The Boy And The Tree (Skintone Edition)

The Boy and the Tree was composed after a visit to Yakushima Island, an outstandingly beautiful world heritage site off the southern tip of Japan, sco... more...

• 01 The Colour of Pomegranates
• 02 Live Echo
• 03 Fairy Link
• 04 Grass Tree and Stone

Sergio Maria Saguaro (Hiroaki Sugawara)

Rain Guitar LP

Legendary Hiroaki Sugawara in the form of Sergio Maria Saguaro presents Rain Guitar. Step into paradise alone to deeply savor an exotic experience.... more...

• 01 Rain Clouds Looked Like The Face Of A Smiling Dog
• 02 Dog In The Window
• 03 Highspeed Grandma
• 04 Ana Maria

Shinichiro Yokota

Pitstop Box

Great box set compiling all 24 tracks from Japanese house music pioneer Shinichiro Yokota's two acclaimed albums ''Do It Again and Again'' (2016) and... more...

• 01 Bells
• 02 Night Drive
• 03 Gaming Man
• 04 Fuyuukan

AUS

EAU

Eau is the lovely new album from aus, the solo project of Tokyo-born composer and producer Yasuhiko Fukuzono, who has gained attention, in Japan and o... more...

• 01 tsuyu
• 02 uki
• 03 variation 1
• 04 orientation

Susumu Yokota

Will (Skintone Edition)

Will heralded a disarming, groove-based return to deep house. A wild melange of bumping beats, freestyle samples and esoteric goodness. Recorded over... more...

• 1 Level 21
• 2 Pegasus Man
• 3 Alpine Nation
• 4 Red Door

Susumu Yokota

Sakura (Skintone Edition)

Recommended by: Lenson

Sakura is without doubt the most loved and lauded entry in Susumu Yokota's catalogue. The music unravels like cascades of petals falling from the epon... more...

• 01 Saku
• 02 Uchu Tanjyo
• 03 Hagoromo
• 04 Genshi

Chito Kawachi

CHITOTIHC/KULA-kura

What makes CHITOTIHC/KULA-kura so fascinating is that, in some weird way, it’s a meeting of minds and musical language of disparate artists at the for... more...

• 01 Bayou
• 02 Scribble Dance
• 03 Sanghyang
• 04 Astral Lamp

OM

Solar Wind

Led by guitarist seiji hano, this jazz group om released only one album - Solar Wind, a landmark work that stands as one of the greatest achievements... more...

• 1 Bandom
• 2 Samarkand
• 3 Dancing Top
• 4 Windmill