Cromulent Blog
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Cromulent Chats with Yusuke Ogawa of Universounds Record Shop in Tokyo
You may not be familiar with the name Yusuke Ogawa, but if you’re reading this you are likely very familiar with his work. He runs the Universounds record store in... -
2022: The Year of Floating Pupa
Pupa is a Japanese group that consists of Yukihiro Takahashi, Tomoyo Harada, Hiroshi Takano, Ren Takada, Hirohisa Horie, and Tomohiko Gondo. They put out their debut album, Floating Pupa, in... -
OBI Curious?
The OBI strip that comes on Japanese LPs and CDs is somewhat of a curiosity when first encountered by Western listeners. Perhaps you go to Wikipedia to learn the basics... -
Egg Salad Sandwiches and Vinyl? HMV and Lawson Entertainment
You may have noticed that some of the Japanese imports/reissues that we sell are from HMV and/or Lawson Entertainment. How and why are these LP being released by a (seemingly)...
