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...
You may not be familiar with these Studio Ghibli commissioned jazz reworkings of much-loved classic soundtracks with the three-piece ensemble All That Jazz. P-Vine is here to change all that, by i...
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 is the second entry in the Ghibli Jazz series; the first can be found here. These LPs were originally put together by the power-house animation studio for a series of jazzed-up covers, the g...
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 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 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...
Noriyo Ikeda only released one LP, Dream In The Street, in 1979. But, she did it right. She enlisted Tatsuro Yamashita. He wrote, arranged, played guitar and sang on the chorus of the title trac...
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...
Minoru “Hoodoo” Fushimi’s first album, Thanatos Of Funk, is given it's due by the good folks at 180G. Working in collaboration with Fushimi, this LP is re-mastered and cut at the Timmion Cutting ...
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...
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...
Soichi Terada's returns with his first new album of house music in 25 years. In the interim, he worked composing music for video games and Asakusa Light is a return to form as a master of the Deep...
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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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...
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. ...
This version of At The Grass Roots of Dub comes from Greensleeves Records, who just who just repressed this dub classic, which was originally released in 1974. Two giants combine to deliver a cla...
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...
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,...
We're not sure why they gave us the same description for this LP and Greenpeace. But we really like both of these releases and are glad that Glossy Mistakes reissued them... so we're not going to...
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...
This LP can be considered both ridiculous and problematic, but it is also charming/irresistible in its way. Mitchum took a break from being an on screen badass to try to cash in on the Calypso cra...
