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Calm

Quiet Music Under The Moon

Limited edition sampler from Japanese producer CALM. These two tracks have been taken from the Japan only Music Conception release ''Quiet Music Under... more...

• 01 Moon Shower
• 02 Oyasumi Ohayo

Satoshi

Ambivalent (Selected Works 1994 - 2022)

Satoshi (Satoshi & Makoto) releases his first solo album - A collection of archival works and new compositions. Like his previous releases with Makoto... more...

• 01 Sazanami
• 02 Coastlines
• 03 New Dawn (ft. Benedek & Kunyuki)
• 04 Southerly Wind

Studio Mule

Carnaval feat Miyako Koda aka Dip In The Pool

The first release of project ''Studio Mule'' is a cover of 80's Japanese dance classic ''Carnaval'' by Taeko Ohnuki. The dance edit on a side stays tr... more...

• 01 Carnaval (Dance Edit)
• 02 Carnaval (Extended Edit)

Studio Mule

Shinzo No Tobira feat. Miyako Koda

Following the cover version of Ohnuki Taeko's Carnaval, they made a new version of Japanese New Wave classic ''Shinzo No Tibia'' with a new lyrics in... more...

• 01 Shinzo No Tobira feat. Miyako Koda (Extended Edit)
• 02 Shinzo No Tobira feat. Miyako Koda (Dub Edit)

Takayuki Shiraishi

Missing Link

An excellent collection of unreleased material from the late 80's by this living legend from Japan. It's an unique mixture of dark New Wave, Post Punk... more...

• 01 Dark Sea
• 02 Eardrum
• 03 Down The Stairs
• 04 Crystal Valley

Shinichiro Yokota

Tokonoma Style

Orginally released in 2021, Shinichiro Yokota's album 'Tokonoma Style' comes on a 2x12'' from Soichi Terada's Far East Recordings. Over a diverse s... more...

• 01 Retro Graffiti
• 02 Interested In It
• 03 Tokyo Traffic Paradise
• 04 Timelaps (Album Version)

Mariko Katsuragi

Seaside Highway

With unprecedented prosperity and growing worldwide fame in broadcast, game, and synthesizers, the 1980s Japan entered a golden decade. New genre spla... more...

• 1 Dancing Tonight
• 2 Seaside Highway
• 3 Game Sentaa
• 4 Game Sentaa (JTs On Acid Mix)

Various Artists

WaJazz: Japanese Jazz Spectacle Vol. II

Following the highly acclaimed first volume in the series, Japanese jazz expert Yusuke Ogawa continues the WaJazz exploration with another essential c... more...

• 01 Clair Deluge - Toshiaki Yokota The Beat Generation
• 02 Constant Rain - Tadao Sawai Toshiyuki Miyama New Herd Orchestra
• 03 Yamame - Akira Miyazawa
• 04 Ma Mre LOye - Various Artists

Eiji Nakayama

Aya's Samba

''Aya's Samba'' is considered a Japanese jazz classic. Originally released on Johnny's Disk, this album is an important release in their catalogue, no... more...

• 01 Aya's Samba
• 02 Yellow Living
• 03 See Sea Town
• 04 Far Away Road

Yoisura Bushi

Ikue Asazaki

Ikue Asazaki serves us with an emotional release of tradional music, coming from the small southern Japanese island of Amami Oshima, called Yoisura Bu... more...

• 01 Yoisura Bushi
• 02 Yoisura Bushi (Kuniyuki Remix)

Motohiko Hamase

Intaglio

When Motohiko Hamase started to be a professional musician in the 1970's, he quickly gained success as a versed studio instrumentalist and started to... more...

• 01 Circlet
• 02 Rain Calls For Bird
• 03 Lung
• 04 Symptom

222

Song For Joni

The new album by Japanese musician Shunji Mori, brings pure natural music full of artificial nuances who create, in conversation with analogue tones,... more...

• 01 Tale Of Mountain
• 02 Brown Rice
• 03 Island
• 04 Next Time You See Me

Royal Mirrorbal (a.k.a. Hiroshi Matsui)

(Earth In) Blue

While still in high school, Matsui started studying multi-recording synthesizer composition. His fascination for electronic music quickly became an ob... more...

• 1 (Earth In) Blue

Lily

O Genki Desu Ka

Recommended by: Charmaine

Limited edition in gatefold sleeve + liner notes insert. Lily’s early life runs parallel to an untold story of post-war Japan, that of the marginal... more...

• 01 So Yo
• 02 Im A Lost Time
• 03 Jikanyo Tomare (Invisable Time)
• 04 Okiteyo

Various Artists

Anime & Manga Synth Pop Soundtracks (1984-1990)

Recommended by: Redray

Trailblazing instrumental synth pop experiments created to soundtrack Japan’s booming 1980s cartoon and comic industries. The brightly futuristic inst... more...

• 1 Kan Ogasawara - Honowo
• 2 Ichiro Nitta - Shadow Rhythm
• 3 Kazuhiko Izu - Act 2 Scene 26
• 4 Yoshinobu Hiraiwa - Into The Jungle

Various Artists

Polyphonic Cosmos: Sonic Innovations In Japan (1980-1986)

Recommended by: Clone

Ever since he made his first trip to Japan to DJ, Optimo Music founder JD Twitch has been bewitched by Japanese music, and particularly the vibrant, i... more...

• 01 World Standard - Fellini & Rota
• 02 Masumi Hara - Your Dream
• 03 Normal Brain - M.U.S.I.C
• 04 Hiroyuki Namba - Who Done It (Part 2)

Takayuki Shiraishi

Photon

Japanese electronic music legend Takayuki Shiraishi´s First Techno LP finally on vinyl! more...

• 01 Graviton
• 02 Clear
• 03 Figure 8
• 04 Fluorite

Morio Agata

Norimono Zukan

Japanese folk-rock legend Morio Agata stunned fans with this way-outta-left-field dispatch - a synthesizer-laden, new-wave/post-punk classic. Original... more...

• 1 Radio City Of Love
• 2 Tinplate Rock Ocon Roll
• 3 submarine
• 4 airplane

Various Artists

Pacific Breeze - Japanese City Pop, AOR & Boogie 1976-1986

Pacific Breeze is an expertly compiled collection of choice cuts that range from silky smooth grooves to innovative funky pop bangers and everything i... more...

• 01 Tomoko Soryo - I Say Who
• 02 Taeko Ohnuki - Kusuri Wo Takusan
• 03 Minako Yoshida - Midnight Driver
• 04 Nanako Sato - Subterranean Futari Bocci

Shinichi Omata

Boku Neko Platanus

Expanded vinyl edition of previously tape-only lost techno-pop classic from Tokyo/1984 - coming with an additional fifty minutes plus of unreleased ar... more...

• 01 platonische liebe
• 02 boyish colour
• 03 chikasyugisya no yume
• 04 metamorphose

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

Yuji Dogane & Mamoru Fujieda

Ecological Plantron

Ecological Plantron was a CD released in 1994, the audio document of an installation held that year at a gallery in Tokyo. The Plantron is a bioelectr... more...

• 1 Evening
• 2 Night

Various Artists

Midnight is Comin

Versatility does not even come close to describing how this humble Japanese artist is considered to be one of the best DJs in the world by many of his... more...

• 01 orhythmo - Nagel
• 02 SPINNUTS - Zweimal schlafen atmosphare
• 03 YPY - MS
• 04 KEIHIN - Exhale

Joe Hisaishi / Vivaldi

La Folia Mr Dough and The Egg Princess (OST)

This is the first LP release of the soundtracks to two short films, “La Folia” and “Pantai to Tamago Hime,” which are only shown at the Ghibli Museum... more...

• 1 Theme
• 2 1st Variation
• 3 2nd Variation
• 4 3rd Variation