“Brass Fantasia II”, which features a brass quintet playing popular songs from “Studio Ghibli”, is finally available on vinyl for the first time ever! Originally released in 1994 as a double CD se...
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My first album “Paradise” is going to be repressed on vinyl with Diggers Factory. Released in 1998, you will find some tracks like “Gym Tonic (produced with Thomas Bangalter)”, “Ultimate...
Midori Hara’s 2nd album. A masterpiece of 80s urban pop with mellow grooves. First class session musicians such as Hiroshi Sato (p), Kenji Takamizu (b), Shuichi Murakami (ds), and Masahiro Ikumi (...
OFK is a semi-fictionalized supergroup of musical pals living in Los Angeles (the brainchild of creative director Teddy Dief and perhaps some IRL experiences), working together to create some of t...
We're so excited about this soundtrack! Kira combines many different influences to make something new that feels familiar, and we love those types of LPs. We suspect you will too! It comes to us...
Yokobue player Michiko Akao’s 1983 publication “Yokobue: Michiko Akao’s World”, which was also published in the “New Age Music Disc Guide” (published by DU BOOKS), is reproduced for the first time...
Kifu Mitsuhashi studied with Soufu Sasaki of the Kinko-style shakuhachi in 1968. He became a member of Pro Musica Nipponia and participated in many concerts both in Japan and overseas after comple...
WRWTFWW Records and MEG Museum (Geneva) announce a new full-length album by celebrated Japanese percussionist Midori Takada, in collaboration with Buddhist monks belonging to the Samgha group of th...
Percussionist who created the first orchestra del solsa band in Japan. Percussionist, Pecker Power, the first dub made in Japan by Pecker in 1980, originally released at 10 inches, Ryojiro Furusaw...
Released in 1977
The 2nd album of Tetsuji Hayashi, one of the most famous composers in the Japanese music world.
Includes the gem of city pop masterpiece “RAINY SATURDAY & COFFEE BREAK”.
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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...
A compilation EP in which four songs have been selected for the label “GREAT TRACKS” and which are compiled into a 12-inch 45-rpm analog record that is renowned for the high-quality sound by recor...
Sai Yoshiko returned from a 30 year absence to release this LP on CD in 2008. Now P-Vine reissues it as part of their 2021 Sai Yoshiko repressings. This LP shows that while she may have been out ...
The WeWantSounds pressing of Akiko Yano's 1976 LP, Japanese Girl. It is crazy enough that Yano recorded this when she was 21, nevermind that she was backed up by Little Feat and Japanese musicians...
Sought-after compilation exploring the Group Sound movement that swept Japan in the mid-1960s. Under the influence of the Beatles, dozens of Japanese bands devoted themselves to exporting a wide ge...
Wewantsounds presents Ryuichi Sakamoto's classic LP Coda, issued in Japan in 1983 as a solo piano version of the Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence soundtrack. The album, which has never been released ou...
Holy Basil Records present the continuation of the reissues of Shigeo Sekitō's iconic Special Sound series with its fourth instalment, Summertime, a radiant musical tapestry woven by the ingenious ...
Motoaki Masuo, known for his active role as a guitarist in the 1970s and 1980s, debuted his album on Polydor in 1973. This album, a hidden gem of Japanese soft rock, showcases his talent as a songw...
The first ever international release of Ryuichi Sakamoto's landmark 1984 album Ongaku Zukan, originally issued in Japan on his own School label in 1984. Remastered by Saidera Mastering in Tokyo. Th...
Get ready to tap your toes! Hitomi Tohyama's fourth album, “NEXT DOOR”, first released in 1983 was strongly influenced by American pop in the early ’80s. The City Pop gem is now available as a limi...
Takahashi Chikuzan's soulful masterpiece 'TSUGARU SHAMISEN' makes its vinyl record debut after half a century. Takahashi Chikuzan, a legendary and esteemed Japanese Tsugaru Shamisen performer and c...
A record of rare beauty that collects the soundtrack of a 1975 film called Drugged Rome: the Police Can't Intervene (in English Hallucination Strip) directed by Lucio Marcaccini. The soundtrack was...
Transparent vinyl version. First-ever official reissue on vinyl since 1975. Ash Ra Tempel is the eponymous debut studio album by the Krautrock band Ash Ra Tempel. It features guitarist Manuel Götts...
