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VA - Experimental Music Of Japan '69 (1969)

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VA - Experimental Music Of Japan '69 (1969)

VA - Experimental Music Of Japan '69 (1969)
Vinyl FLAC (tracks) - 245 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 106 MB
46:31 | Electronic, Experimental | Label: Victor

A1 for electronic sounds and voices, 1969. A2 music for multi-piano, orchestra and electronic sounds, 1968. B1 for electronic sounds and Japanese traditional instruments, 1968. B2 for electronic sounds, 1968.

Motohiko Hino Quartet - Toko: Motohiko Hino Quartet at Nemu Jazz Inn (Remastered) (1975/2018)

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Motohiko Hino Quartet - Toko: Motohiko Hino Quartet at Nemu Jazz Inn (Remastered) (1975/2018)

Motohiko Hino Quartet - Toko: Motohiko Hino Quartet at Nemu Jazz Inn (Remastered) (1975/2018)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log, scans) - 330 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 146 MB
43:48 | Fusion, Jazz-Funk | Label: King Records

Recorded on July 20, 1975 at Nemu no Sato. Remixed on October 11, 1975 at Sunrise Studio.

Ryuichi Sakamoto - Bricolages (2006)

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Ryuichi Sakamoto - Bricolages (2006)

Ryuichi Sakamoto - Bricolages (2006)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 449 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 190 Mb | Scans included
Experimental, Electronic, World Fusion | Label: KA'+B | # KAB-0017 | Time: 01:13:49

"Bricolage," a French word meaning to assemble something from available materials, is such a perfect term for the art of the remix that it's surprising no one has ever used it before. It's less surprising that Ryuichi Sakamoto, whose work has always had a cool Continental flair despite the artist's Japanese roots, would choose such an elegant term for his swish remix collection. Focusing on reworks of material from 2005's back-to-the-roots electro-pop experiment Chasm, Bricolages features a cross-cultural and cross-generational batch of remixers including Cornelius, whose playful sense of pastiche is to current hipster Japanese pop what Sakamoto's Yellow Magic Orchestra was a quarter-century before; his take on the spoken word cut-up "War & Peace" is considerably lighter and groovier than Aoki Takamasa's tense, austere version. Former Japan drummer Steve Jansen, whose collaboration with Sakamoto goes back to the early '80s, contributes the skittering "Break With," bridging the gap between new wave disco and contemporary IDM.

Fishmans - Long Season (Japanese SHM-CD) (1996/2016)

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Fishmans - Long Season (Japanese SHM-CD) (1996/2016)

Fishmans - Long Season (Japanese SHM-CD) (1996/2016)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 199 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 81 Mb | 00:35:17
Dreampop, Neo-psychedelia, Art Pop, Electronic | Label: Universal Music

Long Season is the sixth studio album by Japanese dub band Fishmans, first released on October 25, 1996 in Japan by Polydor Records on Digipak. It's a single 35 minute composition based on previously released single "Season" and was recorded in July 1996.

VA - Scenery Of Japanese Jazz (2020)

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VA - Scenery Of Japanese Jazz (2020)

VA - Scenery Of Japanese Jazz (2020)
FLAC (tracks) - 487 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 176 MB
1:16:43 | Jazz | Label: Ultra-Vybe

Ryo Fukui is a jazz pianist based in Sapporo. Not well known in Japan, he recorded "Early Summer" in 1976, which has been praised overseas as a representative example of "Japanese jazz. Just as Japanese "city pop" is highly regarded overseas, Japanese jazz is now a legacy of which Japan should be proud. Moreover, many of the Japanese jazz albums that overseas fans love so much do not have such high domestic sales and name recognition in comparison to their reputation. This collection of popular "Japanese jazz" songs, which attracts music fans around the world solely through the "power of sound," is a must-have for any music lover. Experience the charm of Japan as seen from a foreign country.

Yamato Ensemble - Music of Japan: The Legacy of Myoonten (2020)

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Yamato Ensemble - Music of Japan: The Legacy of Myoonten (2020)

Yamato Ensemble - Music of Japan: The Legacy of Myoonten (2020)
WEB FLAC (tracks, digital booklet) - 371 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 172 MB
1:13:13 | World, Japanese Traditional | Label: ARC

Performing traditional Japanese music on traditional instruments, Yamato Ensemble honours the legacy of Myoonten, the Japanese goddess of music, art, of everything that flows, and of wonderful sounds. Yamato Ensemble have been playing together for decades; on this special recording, they perform on koto, shakuhachi, jushichigen, shakuroku, and the now-rarely heard kokyu. graceful and supple musicianship.

Stomu Yamashta • Steve Winwood • • Michael Shrieve - Go (Remastered) (1976/2008)

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Stomu Yamashta • Steve Winwood • • Michael Shrieve - Go (Remastered) (1976/2008)

Stomu Yamashta • Steve Winwood • • Michael Shrieve - Go (Remastered) (1976/2008)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log, scans) - 256 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 114 MB
41:19 | Pop Rock, Prog Rock, Ambient | Label: Esoteric

Go (1976) is a concept album in the truest sense of the term, fusing pop/rock with tinges of jazz and elements of classical all connected by a central motif of space travel. More specifically, according to Robin Denselow's liner essay, the theme deals with "change and polarity-fantasy and reality, death and re-birth, things changing to their opposites." Stomu Yamashta, Steve Winwood and Michael Shrieve lead an impressive ensemble through soundscapes, unveiled in a variety of perspectives. Perhaps it is the international cast of performers that allows for such an unfettered consortium of ideas that brought together former Spencer Davis Group, Traffic and Blind Faith member Steve Winwood, as well as Santana co-founder Michael Shrieve and mid-'70s era Santana percussionist Yamashta – the latter of whom were key benefactors to the criminally underrated Santana long-player Borboletta (1974).

Kimiko Kasai - Golden Best Singles 1976-1984 (Remastered) (2018)

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Kimiko Kasai - Golden Best Singles 1976-1984 (Remastered) (2018)

Kimiko Kasai - Golden Best Singles 1976-1984 (2018)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 459 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 163 MB
1:10:14 | Jazz, Pop | Label: GT Music

A best-of compilation of the A and B sides of all singles (7inch + 12inch) released between 1976 and 1984 by Kimiko Kasai, who is popular not only among jazz fans but also in the club scene. Also includes a single version that will be released on CD for the first time!

VA - Pacific Breeze, Volume 2: Japanese City Pop, AOR & Boogie 1972-1986 (2020)

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VA - Pacific Breeze, Volume 2: Japanese City Pop, AOR & Boogie 1972-1986 (2020)

VA - Pacific Breeze, Volume 2: Japanese City Pop, AOR & Boogie 1972-1986 (2020)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 441 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 153 Mb | 01:06:24
Disco, Funk, Boogie, Soul, City Pop | Label: Light in the Attic Records

When Light In The Attic released Pacific Breeze: Japanese City Pop, AOR & Boogie 1976-1986 in 2019, it was the first collection of its kind to be released outside Japan. It proved to be just what music fans had been waiting for—a compilation of sought-after tracks that had been nearly impossible to obtain unless you were well-connected with dealers and collectors, or traveled regularly to the countless record stores in Japan. Pacific Breeze included Minako Yoshida, Taeko Ohnuki, Hiroshi Sato and Haruomi Hosono among other key players of ‘70s-’80s Japanese City Pop, the nebulous genre that encompassed an “amalgam of AOR, R&B, jazz fusion, funk, boogie and disco, all a touch dizzy with tropical euphoria,” as we described it the first time around.

VA - Pacific Breeze: Japanese City Pop, AOR and Boogie 1976-1986 (2019)

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VA - Pacific Breeze: Japanese City Pop, AOR and Boogie 1976-1986 (2019)

VA - Pacific Breeze: Japanese City Pop, AOR and Boogie 1976-1986 (2019)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 473 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 164 Mb | 01:10:09
Disco, Funk, Boogie, Soul, City Pop | Label: Light In The Attic Records

Pacific Breeze documents Japan’s blast into the stratosphere. By the 1960s, the nation had achieved a postwar miracle, soaring to become the world’s second largest economy. Thriving tech exports sent The Rising Sun over the moon. Its pocket cassette players, bleeping video games, and gleaming cars boomed worldwide, wooing pleasure points and pumping Japanese pockets full of yen.

Morelenbaum 2 & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Albums Collection 2001-2003 (3CD)

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Morelenbaum 2 & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Albums Collection 2001-2003 (3CD)

Morelenbaum² / Sakamoto - Albums Collection 2001-2003 [3CD]
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 1 Gb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 516 Mb | Scans included
Bossa Nova, Brazilian Jazz, Lounge, Experimental, World Fusion | Time: 03:01:40

Morelenbaum² / Sakamoto is a trio formed with Japanese composer and pianist Ryuichi Sakamoto by Brazilian cellist Jaques Morelenbaum and his wife, vocalist Paula Morelenbaum. In 2002, they released a debut album Casa (meaning "house" in Portuguese). The album is a tribute to Antonio Carlos Jobim with an emphasis on a lesser-known material, recorded at Jobim's home in Rio. Paula and Jaques had been touring in a band with Antonio Carlos in 1984–1994, and Sakamoto played in a bossa nova group as a teenager, returning to the genre in his mature qualification. Morelenbaum² / Sakamoto second album A Day In New York presents five more compositions of Jobim plus three extra tracks from other composers, as well as new versions of songs from Casa. Collection includes: Casa (2001); Live In Tokyo (2001) and A Day in New York (2003).

Merzbow & Nicolas Horvath - PiaNoise (2024)

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Merzbow & Nicolas Horvath - PiaNoise (2024)

Merzbow & Nicolas Horvath - PiaNoise (2024)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 277 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 100 MB
43:49 | Electronic, Noise | Label: Sub Rosa

For decade, this collaboration was supposed to happen with Dapnom. Now, we enter a new dimension with my own piano ! We worked on this piece of crazy art last year, when the planet started to get wronger and wronger. This album is an ode to our ruin ! Even the most experienced ear will not come out of PiaNoise unscathed. Consecrating the meeting of two consummate artists, this release confronts their universe like a massive head-on shock in the eye of a sound storm by which we sometimes feel totally drowned. A collaboration with Merzbow had already been considered some fifteen years ago. In the midst of forced isolation, it was all the more tempting to meet symbolically, following the ways of the World Wide Web. PiaNoise is actually a project born from the health crisis and lockdowns, carried out from different homes in days of anguish and uncertainty. Both artists thus projected their worries about the ongoing crisis and today's ecological disaster.

Stomu Yamashta - Floating Music (1972) & The Man From The East (1973) [Reissue 2008]

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Stomu Yamashta - Floating Music (1972) & The Man From The East (1973) [Reissue 2008]

Stomu Yamashta - Floating Music (1972) & The Man From The East (1973) [Reissue 2008]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 680 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 266 MB | Covers - 183 MB
Genre: Progressive/Jazz Rock, Soundtrack | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Raven Records (RVCD-282)

Stomu Yamashta's first two Island albums are combined on this two-disc 2008 reissue. From 1972, Floating Music - actually credited to Stomu Yamashta & Come to the Edge - was an unusually long (51-minute) LP for the era. Side one consisted of two long studio compositions; side two had two similarly lengthy instrumental tracks, recorded on January 10, 1972, at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London. Recording with non-Japanese musicians, percussionist Yamashta with this album established himself as an accomplished purveyor of complex, versatile, and quite cerebral fusion music, though of the sort too challenging to get an audience that wide even by fusion standards. Including some world music-flavored interludes, the music nonetheless remained pretty electronic-based, and pretty serious in mood…

VA - Masters of Percussion (2008)

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VA - Masters of Percussion (2008)

VA - Masters of Percussion (2008)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 328 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 129 MB
55:00 | Folk, World | Label: ARC

Some may know Joji Hirota as the Japanese percussionist who, with his taiko drummers and a host of other percussionists, opened the Live Earth concert in 2007. He is just one of the international stable of drummers found on ARC’s comprehensive 2008 collection. Other highlights include tracks by Egyptian rhythm-master Hossam Ramzy and prolific British world music percussionist Pete Lockett.

Merzbow - Mechanization Takes Command (1983/2024)

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Merzbow - Mechanization Takes Command (1983/2024)

Merzbow - Mechanization Takes Command (1983/2024)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log, scans) - 608 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 263 MB
1:27:38 | Electronic, Noise | Label: Old Europa Cafe

"Mechanization Takes Command" was first released on Music-Cassette by Masami Akita on his own ZSF label back in 1983 and this, after 40 years, is the very first re-edition into CD format. A very special and historical album. The large part of sounds on this album have an analogue origin. Masami on this album plays Drums (?) and Guitar (?)… But also many other instruments and sound-surces such as TV ands Vocal samples. And of course Electronics, Loops, Effects, Drum-Machines… The overall is very strange. The first part of the album has a very freak, late 70es, psychedelc & prog touch mixed to a sort of improvised free jazz sound. The whole is slowly turning into a strong Godzilla-Japanoise as we are ussed by Merzbow but also into a sort of very pulsating & tribal future-modern-dance muzak always maintaining a certain freaky 70'es touch… In one word: Merzbow!