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WRWTFWW Kikuchi, Momoko: Ocean Side (clear vinyl) LP
WRWTFWW Records presents the first release from its new City Pop Series with Japanese singer, actress, entertainer, scholar and all-around legend Momoko Kikuchi's sun-drenched classic Ocean Side album, available as a limited-edition transparent vinyl LP i
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Kikuchi, Momoko: Ocean Side (clear vinyl) LP
C$62.99
Black Editions Bibiotheca Hermetica: One LP
Anonymous transmissions from a spectral, dead-of-night mystery zone. Recorded in 1996 and originally release by Japan's enigmatic La Musica Records label on limited cassette. A group that deconstructs and liberates the chance nature of contemporary classi
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Bibiotheca Hermetica: One LP
C$44.99
Black Editions Musica Transonic + Mainliner: Solid Static LP
Electrifying heavy sessions recorded in 1997 featuring the classic Mainliner + Musica Transonic lineup of Nanjo Asahito (High Rise), Kawabata Makoto (Acid Mother) and Yoshida Tatsuya (Ruins) driving into new divergently fried terrain(s). Here, Nanjo and c
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Musica Transonic + Mainliner: Solid Static LP
C$44.99
8mm Satoshi & Makoto: Mirage Café LP
Six years after their last full-length release, Satoshi & Makoto return with Mirage Café, the highly anticipated new album (Standart/8mm Records)

A carefully crafted and long-awaited work, Mirage Café is more than an album — it is a fully immersive sen
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Satoshi & Makoto: Mirage Café LP
C$44.99
Sdban Yamasuki: Le monde Fabuleux Des Yamasuki LP
In the spring of 1971, somewhere between Brussels, Paris and a collective pop fever dream, Le Monde Fabuleux Des Yamasuki landed on vinyl. It sounded like nothing else then and it still does not today. More than half a century later, Sdban Records proudly
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Yamasuki: Le monde Fabuleux Des Yamasuki LP
C$59.99
Aguirre Shudan Sokai: Live At Alone LP
First time reissue of free jazz rarity, pre-Seikatsu Kōjyō Iinkai group. Old-style gatefold LP with rare photographs and liner notes by Alan Cummings. Limited edition of 500. The single album self-released by the quartet Shūdan Sokai in 1977 is one of the
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Shudan Sokai: Live At Alone LP
C$64.99
Great Tracks Fukumura, Hiroshi Quintet: s/t LP
Hiroshi Fukumura's landmark debut album as leader. A representative work of the TBM label, capturing the lyrical and aggressive masterful performance woven by the two trombones of Shigeharu Mukai and Hiroshi Fukumura.

Hiroshi Fukumura(tb), Shigeharu Mu
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Fukumura, Hiroshi Quintet: s/t LP
C$64.99
Nippon Columbia Ohno, Yuji & Galaxy: Captain Future (Original Soundtrack) LP
The legendary soundtrack of the anime Captain Future is finally getting its long awaited vinyl reissue! Composed by Yuji Ohno, renowned for his work on the Lupin the Third soundtrack, this masterpiece delivers a unique “Space × Jazz × Funk” approach, crea
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Ohno, Yuji & Galaxy: Captain Future (Original Soundtrack) LP
C$64.99
Universal Takanaka, Masayoshi: Can I Sing? LP
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of his solo debut, legendary Japanese guitarist Masayoshi Takanaka celebrates his milestone with remastered releases of his most beloved works from the Kitty Years.

As a pioneering figure in the global Japanese fusio
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Takanaka, Masayoshi: Can I Sing? LP
C$74.99
Universal Takanaka, Masayoshi: Ocean Breeze LP
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of his solo debut, legendary Japanese guitarist Masayoshi Takanaka celebrates his milestone with remastered releases of his most beloved works from the Kitty Years. As a pioneering figure in the global Japanese fusion b
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Takanaka, Masayoshi: Ocean Breeze LP
C$74.99
Nippon Columbia Various: City Music Tokyo Second Definition LP
This new volume in the “City Music Tokyo” series, curated by Kunimond Takiguchi (Ryusenkei), focuses on Jazz Funk. From among crossover, Japanese jazz, and soundtrack works released by Nippon Columbia, Takiguchi has carefully selected urban and sophistica
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Various: City Music Tokyo Second Definition LP
C$99.99
WeWantSound Tsuchitori, Toshiyuki - Ryuichi Sakamoto: Disappointment - Hateruma (1976) LP
Wewantsounds presents the first vinyl reissue of Disappointment-Hateruma, the 1976 ALM Records release by percussionist Toshi Tsuchitori and Ryuichi Sakamoto. The album is notable as Sakamoto's first recording issued under his own name and represents one
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Tsuchitori, Toshiyuki - Ryuichi Sakamoto: Disappointment - Hateruma (1976) LP
C$54.99
Milan Sakamoto, Ryuichi: Opus BOX
Celebrate the legacy of Ryuichi Sakamoto with Opus, a definitive collection curated by the composer himself. Spanning decades of groundbreaking work, this anthology brings together iconic film scores, Yellow Magic Orchestra classics, and deeply personal c
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Sakamoto, Ryuichi: Opus BOX
C$224.99
Black Editions Ohkami No Jikan: Black Tape II LP
Black Tape II is only the second widely available release by Ohkami No Jikan (The Time of the Wolf), one of the more esoteric groups of the 1990s Tokyo underground. Recorded in 1992, it illuminates a largely undocumented facet of Nanjo Asahito's psychedel
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Ohkami No Jikan: Black Tape II LP
C$44.99
Black Editions Asahito, Nanjo: M LP
A collection of intimate songs traced from the spectral darkness by Nanjo Asahito, the notorious leader of some of Japan's key underground psychedelic units (High Rise, Mainliner, Musica Transonic, Toho Sara, etc) Recorded between 1980 and 1988 and previo
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Asahito, Nanjo: M LP
C$44.99
Black Editions Nean: Doo Dah Nean LP
A bizarrely entrancing jewel from the depths of the Japanese underground, Doo Dah Nean was originally released in small run of hand assembled cassettes by the La Musica label in the late '90s. The album is the sole release and evidence of Nean, an entirel
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Nean: Doo Dah Nean LP
C$44.99
Black Editions Rotting Telepathies: Rotting Tapes II LP
Black Editions presents the first ever vinyl and digital editions of Rotting Tapes II by Rotting Telepathies, the free-punk trip of spectral poet Michio Kadotani and High Rise founder Nanjo Asahito. Recorded live in 1982, and originally issued as a limite
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Rotting Telepathies: Rotting Tapes II LP
C$44.99
Ambient Sans Sugaya, Masahiro: Music from Alejo LP
Following the reissue of The Pocket of Fever, Ambient Sans presents the second chapter in Masahiro Sugaya’s visionary work for the avant-garde performing arts company Pappa TARAHUMARA. Founded by Hiroshi Koike in 1982, Pappa TARAHUMARA blended dance, thea
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Sugaya, Masahiro: Music from Alejo LP
C$49.99
Victor Kohske Mine Quintet: Daguri LP
Kosuke Mine, having gained recognition in the Masabumi Kikuchi Group, recorded this work with his regular ensemble. Featuring emerging musicians including Fumio Itabashi, the performances are both weighty and vibrant, with a momentum and clarity that sugg
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Kohske Mine Quintet: Daguri LP
C$69.99
Miyazawa, Akira: Yamame LP
This album marks Akira Miyazawa’s first as a leader. It features some of Japan’s top jazz musicians, including Sadao Watanabe (alto saxophone, flute), Akira Nakano (trumpet, trombone), Takeshi Inomata (drums), and Masahiko Sato (piano). Undoubtedly one of
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Miyazawa, Akira: Yamame LP
C$69.99
WeWantSound Tohyama, Hitomi "Penny": Tokyo Funk Diva 1981-1988 LP
Wewantsounds presents the release of Tokyo Funk Diva, a compilation highlighting the work of Hitomi "Penny" Tohyama, one of Japan's leading funk voices of the 1980s. Blending funk, boogie and soulful grooves, Penny brought a distinctive energy to Japan's
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Tohyama, Hitomi "Penny": Tokyo Funk Diva 1981-1988 LP
C$52.99
180g Various: Minyo Groove 1963-1979 - Japan Meets Latin, Rock, Raret Groove & Funky Vibes LP
Active as a professional DJ in Japan since the late eighties, DJ Yoshizawa Dynamite is also a renowned remixer, compiler and producer. An avid record collector and an expert of Wamono music, Yoshizawa has published in 2015 the now-classic Wamono A to Z re
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Various: Minyo Groove 1963-1979 - Japan Meets Latin, Rock, Raret Groove & Funky Vibes LP
C$49.99
P-Vine Noidunzuri: Houyou (抱擁) LP
The long-awaited LP reissue of the avant-garde pop band "Noizunzuri," acclaimed as the Japanese Neu!, is here. This first album, originally released in 1985 through Telegraph, features the enigmatic participation of Jun Togawa on vocals. It's a bizarre re
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Noidunzuri: Houyou (抱擁) LP
C$59.99
Universal Takanaka, Masayoshi: The Rainbow Goblins (Clear Purple) LP
Three of Masayoshi Takanaka’s most beloved albums—“T-WAVE,” “alone,” and “THE RAINBOW GOBLINS”—have been remastered from the original master tapes using high-resolution audio, with remastering and cutting done at Abbey Road Studios in London. “T-WAVE” and
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Takanaka, Masayoshi: The Rainbow Goblins (Clear Purple) LP
C$99.99