Japan - All

Wednesday Dec 4, 2024

Palomatic

Trill

Feedback Waves - the new imprint from independent label Rings of Neptune - is proud to present Trill, the first and only album by Palomatic. Almost th... more...

2x12inch Feedback Waves: FWAVE001

Thursday Oct 31, 2024

Kaoru Inoue

A Missing Myth of the Future

Kaoru Inoue is a Japanese veteran producer and DJ since late 90's. This album was originally release in 2013, in Japan only. It's a very own style mix... more...

LP Studio Mule: StudioMule049

Thursday Oct 17, 2024

Thursday Oct 10, 2024

12inch Mondo Groove: MGMS17

Monday Oct 7, 2024

Thursday Sep 5, 2024

Tokyo Riddim Band

Lazy Love / Lazy Dub

Tokyo Riddim Band continue their journey striding across times and cultures, this time with their colourful keyboardist and frontwoman Mimi Kobayashi... more...

7inch Time Capsule: TIME703

Tokyo Riddim Band

Canoe Boy / Canoe Dub

London based Tokyo Riddim Band is a unique fusion of cultures, bringing together the vibrant energy of three generations of Japanese female musicians... more...

7inch Time Capsule: TIME702

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...

LP EM Japan: EMC019LP

Tokyo Riddim Band

Denshi Lenzi / Denshi Dub

Three generations of female musicians from Japan come together, blending reggae drums, funky bass, and the smooth City Pop guitar, all magically dubbe... more...

7inch Time Capsule: TIME701

Monday Aug 26, 2024

Joe Hisaishi and Kenshi Yonezu

The Boy And The Heron (OST)

Introducing ''The Boy and the Heron'', the original soundtrack to Studio Ghibli's 2023 Oscar-winning animated film, directed by the acclaimed Hayao Mi... more...

2LP Studio Ghibli / Tokuma Japan: TJJA10063

Monday Jun 17, 2024

LP Field Records: FIELD032

Monday Jun 3, 2024

Eryyy

Mada Wakaran

Tokyo-based DJ and Producer Erryyy kicks off her debut EP on Magnetron. Quirky Acid 303 pop with Japanese and English Vocals. more...

CD Magnetron Music: MAG218

Wednesday May 29, 2024

Mariko Katsuragi

Aoyama Nights

Surfing on the wave of 1980’s Nippon’s bubble of electronics and economics, fashion and the femme fatale, explosion of its pop culture and computerize... more...

12inch MEMME VAEV: MMV002

Tuesday Mar 19, 2024

Hotatsu-Nami

Ultra Hyper Cosmic Voice LP

Originally released on the lauded Green Energy label from experimental maverick Henry Kawahara, Forest Jams is thrilled to present the official re-iss... more...

LP Forest Jams: FJLP-02

Osamu Kitajima

Beyond The Circle LP

An official re-issue of the 1996 album, Beyond the Circle, from Dr. Osamu Kitajima presented by Forest Jams on vinyl for the first time. As the tit... more...

LP Forest Jams: FJLP-03

Friday Feb 23, 2024

Joe Hisaishi

Studio Ghibli 5x7 inch Box Set

Theme songs from the Studio Ghibli movies ''Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind'', ''Castle in the Sky'' and ''My Neighbor Totoro'' have been loved by... more...

5x7inch Studio Ghibli / Tokuma Japan: TJKA10021

Thursday Feb 22, 2024

Torso

Rali Song / Sleep

Even more limited than the LP, a small handful from 100 press, in screenprinted sleeves.

12inch Ozato: OZT-002

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...

2LP + Download EM Japan: EM1211DLP

Various Artists

Tokyo Riddim 1976-1985

If there is a year zero for the introduction of reggae music to Japan, you’d be forgiven for thinking it was 1979 when Bob Marley and the Wailers tour... more...

LP + Download Time Capsule: TIME016

Monday Feb 12, 2024

Akira Mitake

Himawari

Japanese Ambient / New Age masterpiece from 1987, thankfully re-issued. Soundtrack of the documentary program for Japanese art history, ''Japan: It... more...

LP HMV: HRLP315

Tuesday Jan 23, 2024

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...

LP EM Japan: EM1209LP

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...

LP EM Japan: EM1210LP

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...

LP EM Japan: EM1206LP

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...

LP EM Japan: EM1208LP