Pacific Breeze 2 is another wonderful compilation put together by our friends at Light in the Attic Records. There are two different color pressings, Violet and LA Twilight. As much as we like th...
Yasuke Ogawa pulls together a wonderful collection of Japanese Jazz from the Nippon Columbia catalog. This collection is brought to us by 180G on two 180G (obviously) black LPs, in a gatefold pack...
This LP's reputation is excellent, so we're not going to spend too much time telling you how great it is. You're probably already aware and happy to get your hands on a copy of it. There is a goo...
Everyone loves Fuyu Kakan, including The Weeknd. So, why not check out More Relax as well? It is a great LP and holds its own against her other works!
“More Relax”, the fourth album released in ...
The third installment in the popular Wamono series. In this one, our tour guides DJ Yoshizawa Dynamite and Chintam take us to the go-go bubble years of 1978-1988. This of course is the City Pop e...
The second installment in the Wamano series that pulls together some really great stuff you likely never heard of before. Japan could and did get funky in the 70's. This is a great introduction t...
The self-titled Tin Pan Alley debut LP brought together Haroumi Hosono, Masataka Matsutoya, Shigeru Suzuki, Tatsuo Hayashi to deliver an excellent and varied LP. Starting with Caramel Rag, a piano...
We love AB's and so of course we love this LP too. This repress comes to us on white vinyl from Warner Music Japan. We also have his second LP Romantic Guys.
“YOSHINO FUJIMAL” was released in 1...
Chu Kosaka's laid back, yet funky Morning LP is reissued by Solid Records. If you continue reading, you'll see an absurd list of talent involved. Even further down we've embedded a YouTube link. ...
Great Tracks/Sony Japan delivers us a repressing of Yukihiro Takehashi's Tomorrow's Just Another Day. This 1983 LP puts the focus on his singing; in both English and Japanese. The result was his h...
Released in 1966 this is Naoko Gushima’s major debut album. Pressed on colored vinyl the release includes 10 songs that you can thoroughly enjoy the ultimate AOR sound. Produced and arranged by To...
We're really happy to get our hands on some of this great WeWantSounds 40th Anniversary 2LP pressing of Akiko Yano's Gohan Ga Dekitayo. Yano collaborated with Yellow Magic Orchestra to records thi...
This pressing of Barbecue comes from Nippon Columbia/Lawson Entertainment on yellow vinyl. Barbecue is considered a classic of Japanese pop and for good reason. The brother duo of Bread & But...
If you found this LP via YouTube, you may notice that one of the top comments is "Could tell from the gorgeous sleeve that this would be a fantastic album." Which is pretty damn accurate. Haruko K...
Yauko Agawa's Gravy LP, which contains the legendary LA Night track is now available in limited quantities. It was repressed as part of RSD 2022 in Japan, but we were able to secure some copies.
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A very funky LP that will fit perfectly into a City Pop collection or mix. Grab your copy before these disappear!
The first analog reissue of “Star” released in 1980 by Rie Ida & 42nd Street,...
Nanako Sato's 1979 album, Kissing Fish, re-released by Nippon Columbia. It arrives in packaging that replicates the original LP, because when you have that great of a cover photo, you don't mess w...
Our customers really loved the first LP from Issei Okamoto, Moonlight Singing so of course we're very excited to get the first ever repress of Moonlight Mystery! This is an excellent LP that is g...
Originally released in 1985, Yumi Murata's Desire is considered a classic of Japanese New Wave music. Produced and arranged by Masanori Sasaji, this LP sounds big and Murata's vocals are front and...
Nippon Columbia brings us a pressing of Angel's Dream! A LP to get into as you move deeper into City Pop.
Japanese BOOGIE – The first analog reissue of the urban city pop classic!
The first analo...
Originally released in 1977, Sachiko Nishida's Usual Afternoon has been rediscovered by many as part of the City Pop boom. Universal Music Japan/Lawson Entertainment delivers this 2021 pressing, t...
Originally a Japan RSD 2022 Release... very limited quantities!
After transferring to the prestigious J-AOR label "aosis" in the 2000s, the eternal masterpiece "Pink Shadow", which was self-covered...
Steve Scales (Per) and Drutti McDonald (Vo) who also participated in Talking Heads, as well as Sandy and Makoto Kubota, are the pinnacle of world music produced by Japanese people.
Originally re...
Great Tracks / Sony Japan deliver a new pressing of Takehashi's soundtrack to the 1986 film Poisson D'Avril. His talent shines through on this LP that works as a stand alone album as well as a sou...
