We weren't familiar with Group of Gods this release was announced. However, after a few listens, we're now fans. This LP has a laid back, exotic vibe that experiments with different types of sound...
The good folks at Light in the Attic Records give us a new pressing of the legendary Cochin Moon LP from Haruomi Hosono on yellow vinyl!
The unbelievably prolific Haruomi Hosono is one of the majo...
Vampire Weekend's track, 2021, from "Father of the Bride," sampled Haruomi Hosono's Talking, so it is natural to release these songs as an A/B side. (Once you clear label politics out of the way.)...
This is a cool combination of classic tracks in a medley on the A side and a B side of originals from some of the top names in Japanese music. If you check out the videos below and likely want to ...
Heart Station, the eighth studio and fifth Japanese-language album by Japanese–American recording artist Hikaru Utada. It was released on March 19, 2008 by EMI Music in Japan, and globally on March...
Hiroshi Sato's 1996 album Oracle 2LP pressing This Universal Music Japan release marks the first time Oracle has been available on vinyl. This is a wonderful LP from Sato, that shows his evoluti...
In 1974, Hiroshi Tanaka and Yoichi Fuwa, the self-proclaimed heirs of the Beatles, crammed into a 75 square foot room and recorded over 50 songs, all without names. 19 of those songs would be self...
Solid Records delivers a reissue of Free Flight, a City Pop classic from Kazushi Inamura. This isn't a super funky City Pop LP, but instead a laid back groove that serves as a wonderful counterpoi...
Kimyo Reitaro’s full album “Tamaranai Yokan” released in April 2022 for the first time in about 4 years has been converted to analog with clear blue vinyl specifications!
Kimyo Reitaro, a solitary...
Kraftwerk live at Nakano Sun Plaza in Tokyo, Japan on September 8th, 1981. FM broadcast. The gang from Dusseldorf in their prime playing some of their best tracks in Japan, you know we're loving...
This live LP of Kraftwerk captures them as they turn the corner into fully embracing their electric sound. The source material is a King Biscuit radio broadcast from 1975 and it is released by the...
We're so happy that Universal Music and Lawson keeps churning out these represses of City Pop classics. It makes us so happy to be able to share them with you! Grab your copy of this 1981 LP.
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"Import" of classic LP originally released in 1970. The Japanese keyboard player, vocalist, songwriter, and arranger joined forces with members of the Flower Travelling Band on this amazing release...
Knee-deep in the jazz fusion sound made popular throughout the city, Lights Out evolved into a synthesizer-fueled funk group fronted by vocalist Andy Stokes and featuring guitarist Greg “Gee Mack”...
We're super excited about this one, we love these guys and the concept!
Slowly’s Masato Komatsu and Ryo Kawahara have launched another project, Lost Weekend!
Lost Weekend is a fictional soundtrack...
We're huge Lou Reed / Velvet Underground fans here at Cromulent, so we were SO excited to get our hands on these for you. We've heard a few tracks and they sound great, so don't snooze on this one...
With the cosmic-disco-drenched Burning Feeling, Steve Moore's high-gloss Lovelock project conjured one of the most slept-on albums of last decade. Chunky, neon-lit synths and crashing, spacey guita...
Black Editions delivers the first-ever vinyl edition of Homo Sacer, Japanese saxophonist Makoto Kawashima’s debut album and the final release by the legendary P.S.F. Records. It comes housed in a...
MARIAH used to be a Japanese outfit in the field of art pop, long way back in the very late 70s and early 80s with 6 albums up their score from 1979 to 1983. The album at hand is the sixth and for...
Wewantsounds announce a special edition of the legendary 1979 Masahiko Togashi album Song of Soil, recorded in Paris with Don Cherry and Charlie Haden and released on Japanese label Paddle Wheel. S...
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...
Remastered sound sources for all songs, double-page spread lyric cards that reproduce the original specifications, reprinted with belt specifications.
An urban mellow 4th album, swayed by the cutt...
Nami Shimada’s 7th album, originally released in 1986, is now being reissued on black vinyl! All songs were written by Shimada herself, composed by Yosuke Sugiyama, who later formed Paris Match, a...
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...
