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  • Trailblazing instrumental synth pop experiments created to soundtrack Japan’s booming 1980s cartoon and comic industries.
    Label
    Time Capsule
    Released
    2 Dec 2022
  • This 2-LP release comes pressed on pink & blue “Pop Sensation” colored vinyl housed in a gatefold package including a 12” photo insert.
    Label
    Sony
    Released
    9 Sep 2022
  • A dreamlike dispatch from mid-80s Japan, the first and only Hallelujahs album is an entrancing and gentle work of psychedelic pop brilliance.
    Label
    Blank Editions
    Released
    13 Jan 2023
    Stephen's Pick
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    Black Truffle announce Genetic, the first release outside Indonesia from contemporary Balinese composer Dewa Alit and his Gamelan Salukat.
    Label
    Black Truffle
    Released
    20 Feb 2022
    Russell's Pick
  • With original artwork and new liner notes - features "Urami Bushi" (used in Kill Bill 2) and "Onna No Jumon" from the Female Prisoner Scorpion series.
    Label
    Wewantsounds
    Released
    5 May 2023
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  • The legendary BORIS celebrate a 30 year career as one of experimental music's most forward-thinking, heavy, and innovative bands with the new album...
    Label
    Relapse
    Released
    12 Aug 2022
    Staff Pick
  • Agi Jo, an alias of Yuzuru Agi, kayou pop singer, actor, model and Japanese electronic music pioneer.
    Label
    Japan Blues
    Released
    31 Jan 2022
    Russell's Pick
  • Omochi, (honorific “O” before mochi) in daily parlance is a rice cake, a dense glutinous product suited to many recipes, sweet or savoury.
    Label
    Ethbo
    Released
    2 Dec 2022
    Staff Pick
  • NTS DJ, label boss and fabled collector Howard Williams lands on DDS with an etheric communique under his Japan Blues moniker...
    Label
    DDS
    Released
    6 Feb 2023
    Russell's Pick
  • A compilation squeezed onto a 7” that brings together some of the finest artists active in the Japanese underground.
    Label
    Herberg Rustiek Belgium
    Released
    11 Jan 2022
    Stephen's Pick
  • The fifth and final Kikagaku Moyo album.
    Label
    Guruguru Brain
    Released
    19 Aug 2022
    Russell's Pick
  • An’archives are proud to present a reissue of the self-titled first album by the trio of Akiko Hotaka, Takuya Nishimura and Ikuro Takahashi.
    Label
    An'Archives
    Released
    7 Jan 2022
    Russell's Pick
  • Emerging during the early stages of the recording industry in Japan, the ryūkōka style adopted western classical, blues & jazz elements...
    Label
    Death Is Not The End
    Released
    16 Dec 2022
    Russell's Pick
  • Following the long-awaited Paradise Of Delusion LP from 2021, An’archives announces Lunatic Pearl, a 10” EP by Japanese psych-pop legends Shizuka.
    Label
    An-Archives
    Released
    2 Dec 2022
    Staff Pick
  • Kikagaku Moyo started in the summer of 2012 busking on the streets of Tokyo. Though the band started as a free music collective...
    Label
    Guru Guru Brain
    Released
    15 Jul 2022
    Russell's Pick
  • After four successful volumes packed with heaters from all over the globe, and as a reaction to a far less club-centric environment at the time...
    Label
    Mr Bongo
    Released
    3 Jun 2022
    Russell's Pick
  • Black Editions is pleased to announce the release of the definitive vinyl editions of two milestone, career-spanning works from Shinji Shibayama 
    Label
    Blank Editions
    Released
    13 Jan 2023
    Staff Pick
  • Lily’s early life runs parallel to an untold story of post-war Japan, that of the marginalised hafu - children of half Japanese / half foreign parents
    Label
    Japan Blues
    Released
    23 Sep 2022
    Russell's Pick
  • A single cut from the debut album "Orca" by NTsKi, a Kyoto-based electronic music producer/performer.
    Label
    Em
    Released
    2 Feb 2022
    Russell's Pick
  • Padang Moonrise is the story of modern Indonesian music that emerged underneath the volcanoes of Java and Sumatra.
    Label
    Soundway
    Released
    25 Nov 2022
    Archive of the Week
  • Shizuka first came to wider attention at roughly the same time as their peers in the Japanese underground – in the nineties, really...
    Label
    An'Archives
    Released
    17 Mar 2023
    Staff Pick
  • After Dinner’s Paradise of Replica is a concise nugget of tomfoolery that occupies a whimsical no man’s land between art pop...
    Label
    Aguirre
    Released
    2 Sep 2022
    Russell's Pick
  • WRWTFWW Records is absolutely honored to announce the release of Kenji Kawai’s complete soundtrack to Mamoru Oshii's 1993 superb political thriller...
    Label
    We Release Whatever The Fuck We Want
    Released
    13 Jul 2022
  • A founding member of legendary ‘70s outfit Datetenryu, and a member of both Brain Police and Les Ralllizes Dénudés appearing on the latter’s ’77 Live.
    Label
    An'Archives
    Released
    17 Mar 2023
    Russell's Pick
  • December 1982, Tokyo. Kiyoaki Iwamoto has a guitar, a simple rhythm box, a friend with a bass guitar, and some stripped-down songs...
    Label
    Em
    Released
    14 Jan 2022
    Staff Pick
  • The release of Sweet Inspirations At Muon, the first appearance on vinyl of Tori Kudo’s mythical early ‘80s primitive rock gang Sweet Inspirations...
    Label
    An'Archives
    Released
    11 Jan 2022
    Stephen's Pick
  • Filled with graceful pop songs, autumnal folk tunes, and gentle yet risk-taking improvisations...
    Label
    Morr Music
    Released
    7 Oct 2022
    Stephen's Pick
  • LSD March is a band from Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, whose members revolved around Shinsuke Michishita...
    Label
    An'Archives
    Released
    7 Jan 2022
    Russell's Pick