Minoru Fushimi

Thanatos Of Funk is a milestone in Japan’s underground music and electro funk/early hip hop history. Entirely self-produced, designed and distributed in 1985 by Fushimi, a high-school teacher by day and music experimenter by night, Thanatos Of Funk is a love-letter to counter-culture, DIY, drum machines and synthesizers blent with some killer shamisen and guitar playing. Comes with a 4 pages insert including the original hand-written insert/comic by Minoru Fushimi, with English translations. Minoru “Hoodoo” Fushimi’s most wanted and impossible to find first album Thanatos Of Funk is finally reissued for the first time ever, in collaboration with Fushimi himself.

• 01 Thanatopsis
• 02 In Praise Of Mitochondria
• 03 Shinzo-san
• 04 It Isnt Because Of Hemoglobin
• 05 Hensachi-sama
• 06 Foxy Lady
• 07 Gals Blues
• 08 Panda Steak
• 09 Disco Thesis
• 10 Dompan (Private Funk)