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Various Artists

Pacific Breeze III - Japanese City Pop, AOR & Boogie 1975-1987

LITA's Pacific Breeze series has supplied the world's growing legions of Japanese music fans with an expertly curated selection of the most sought-aft... more...

• 01 Naomi Akimoto - Bewitched (Are You Leaving Soon)
• 02 Atsuko Nina - Tonkachi
• 03 Miho Fujiwara - Heartbeat
• 04 Miharu Koshi - Scandal Night

Hiroshi Yoshimura

Surround

Temporal Drift presents the long-awaited, first-ever reissue of ''Surround'', Hiroshi Yoshimura's sought-after ambient classic. Originally released... more...

• 01 Time After Time
• 02 Surround
• 03 Something Blue
• 04 Time Forest

Hiroshi Yoshimura

Surround

Temporal Drift presents the long-awaited, first-ever reissue of ''Surround'', Hiroshi Yoshimura's sought-after ambient classic. Originally released... more...

• 01 Time After Time
• 02 Surround
• 03 Something Blue
• 04 Time Forest

Sonoko

Chante

Two elevator bangers to get through the gloomy holiday season by Japanese artist, Sonoko, probably made somewhere in the 90's. Merry ye ye

• 1 Meditation
• 2 Un Homme Et Une Femme

Satoshi Suzuki

Distant Travel Companion

Satoshi Suzuki described his musical practice perfectly on the OBI strip of his 1987 privately pressed LP - Tokyo Contemporary! consisting of 40 perce... more...

• 01 Situation In The Passenger Seat
• 02 Passing Scene
• 03 Miss Shooting
• 04 A Gray Moment

Joe Hisaishi

Howl's Moving Castle (OST)

The world which Director Hayao Miyazaki imagined was recorded by Joe Hisaishi with Czech Philharmonic in Prague. Mastered at Abbey Road Studios in Lon... more...

• 01 Merry-Go-Round Of Life (Opening song)
• 02 The Merry Light Cavalrymen
• 03 A Walk In The Skies
• 04 Heartbeat

Joe Hisaishi

Princess Mononoke (OST)

33-track, 2LP version, Japanese pressing with OBI strip and liner notes of one of Ghibli's best anime movies. more...

• 01 The Legend Of Ashitaka
• 02 The Demon God
• 03 Departure -To The West
• 04 Demon Power

Joe Hisaishi

Kiki's Delivery Service (OST)

Japanese pressing in gatefold sleeve with OBI strip of this Ghibli anime classic. more...

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Various Artists

WaJazz Legends: Jiro Inagaki - Selected by Yusuke Ogawa

This is the ultimate collection of music from legendary saxophone player Jiro Inagaki and his Soul Media band, covering their 1968-1980 golden age, re... more...

• 01 Head Rock - Jiro Inagaki His Soul Media
• 02 Snipers Snooze - Jiro Inagaki Big Soul Media with Masahiko Sato
• 03 Inanome - Jiro Inagaki His Soul Media with Yasushi Sawada
• 04 Breeze - Soul Media

Michio Mamiya

Grave Of The Fireflies (OST)

Limited edition clear vinyl Japanese pressing of this Ghibli anime classic. more...

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Joe Hisaishi

Tale Of The Princess Kaguya (OST)

Limited edition pink translucent vinyl Japanese pressing of this Ghibli anime classic.

• 01 Track 1-18
• 02 Track 19-29
• 03 Track 30-37

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)

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

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

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