Japan - All
Monday May 8, 2023
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...
| LP | Studio Mule: StudioMule022LP | in stock |
Wednesday Mar 22, 2023
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...
| LP | Far East Recording: FER06929 | in stock |
Wednesday Feb 8, 2023
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...
| 12inch | MEMME VAEV: MMV001 | in stock |
Monday Feb 6, 2023
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...
| 2LP | 180G: 180GHMVLP002 | out of stock |
Thursday Jan 19, 2023
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...
| LP | Studio Mule: StudioMule013LP | out of stock |
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...
| 12inch | Studio Mule: StudioMule004 | out of stock |
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...
| LP | Studio Mule: StudioMule008LP | in stock |
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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...
| LP | Studio Mule: StudioMule043LP | out of stock |
Thursday Dec 15, 2022
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...
| 12inch | Rush Hour: RH-STOREJPN9 | out of stock |
Tuesday Dec 6, 2022
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...
| LP | Japan Blues: JBRIRI1 | in stock |
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...
| LP | Time Capsule: TIME014 | in stock |
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...
| 2LP | Cease and Desist: C&D002 | in stock |
Tuesday Nov 29, 2022
Takayuki Shiraishi
Photon
Japanese electronic music legend Takayuki Shiraishi´s First Techno LP finally on vinyl! more...
| 2LP | Camisole: CAM025 | in stock |
Friday Nov 11, 2022
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...
| LP | Mesh-Key: MKY030 | in stock |
Thursday Nov 3, 2022
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...
| 2LP | Light In The Attic: LITA163PINK (Pink color vinyl) | out of stock |
Friday Jul 29, 2022
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...
| 2LP | Choon: CHN007 | in stock |
Tuesday Jul 26, 2022
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...
| 7inch | EM Japan: EM1201OS | in stock |
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...
| 7inch | EM Japan: EMC017 | in stock |
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...
| LP | Unknown: EM1202LP | in stock |
Monday Jun 27, 2022
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...
| 2LP | Midnight Shift: MNSXLP003 | in stock |
Wednesday Jun 8, 2022
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...
| LP | Studio Ghibli / Tokuma Japan: TJJA10044 | in stock |
Various Artists
Pacific Breeze II - Japanese City Pop, AOR & Boogie 1972-1986
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...
| 2LP | Light In The Attic: LITA179 | out of stock |
Tuesday May 24, 2022
Joe Hisaishi
Spirited Away (OST)
Limited edition Japanese 2LP pressing (the D side has a cool etching on it) of this truly wonderful Studio Ghibli anime masterpiece. Coming in a gatef... more...
| 2LP | Studio Ghibli / Tokuma Japan: TJJA10028 | in stock |
Tuesday Apr 26, 2022
Joe Hisaishi
Princess Mononoke (OST)
Limited edition Japanese pressing with OBI strip and liner notes of one of Ghibli's best anime movies. more...
| LP | Studio Ghibli / Tokuma Japan: TJJA10024 | in stock |
Joe Hisaishi
My Neighbor Totoro (OST)
Limited edition Japanese pressing with OBI strip and liner notes of this Ghibli anime classic. more...
| LP | Studio Ghibli / Tokuma Japan: TJJA10015 | in stock |
