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WRWTFWW Takada, Midori: You Who Are Leaving to Nirvana LP
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 the Shingon school of Koya-san, led by Reverend Syuukoh Ikaw
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Takada, Midori: You Who Are Leaving to Nirvana LP
C$49.99
WRWTFWW Takada, Midora: Cutting Branches for a Temporary Shelter LP
WRWTFWW Records and MEG Museum (Geneva) present the first new solo album by renowned Japanese percussionist Midori Takada in 23 years, Cutting Branches For A Temporary Shelter. Recorded in a live setting and played with instruments conserved in the collec
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Takada, Midora: Cutting Branches for a Temporary Shelter LP
C$49.99
Kuwana, Haruko: Show Me Your Smile LP
Popular Japanese GROOVE album! The first reissue of Haruko Kuwana’s masterpiece 2nd album!
The year after the release of her first album “MILLION STARS” with Hawaiian AOR master Mackey Feary, her second album produced by Mitsunori Miura, the founder of B
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Kuwana, Haruko: Show Me Your Smile LP
C$64.99
Isle of Jura Kyoto Connection: The Flower, The Bird and the Mountain LP
“A love letter to the masters of Japanese ambient and environmental music.”
During the late 2010s, music lovers around the world began obsessively listening to increasingly esoteric albums on Youtube. More often than not, they’d leave the browser on aut
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Kyoto Connection: The Flower, The Bird and the Mountain LP
C$34.99
Light in the Attic Various: Pacific Breeze: Japanese City Pop, AOR & Boogie 1976-1986 LP
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 playe
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Various: Pacific Breeze: Japanese City Pop, AOR & Boogie 1976-1986 LP
C$54.99
WRWTFWW Towa Tei: LP LP
WRWTFWW Records announce the release of the new album from legendary Deee-Lite member Towa Tei, celebrating the 30th year of his career. Available on (orange) vinyl for the first time outside of Japan. The album, simply titled LP features Japanese music i
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Towa Tei: LP LP
C$49.99
Speedstar Hosono, Harry & The World Shyness: Flying Saucer 1947 LP
The original CD was released in 2007. An analog release of the masterpiece of the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Award in May 2013. After that, the long-awaited analog reissue was a rare work in the used board market. Guest
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Hosono, Harry & The World Shyness: Flying Saucer 1947 LP
C$89.99
180g Various: WaJazz: Japanese Jazz Spectacle Vol. I - Deep, Heavy and Beautiful Jazz from Japan 1968-1984 LP
Universounds, HMV Record Shop and 180g team up for an exceptional release: from blazing hard bop to free jazz, to introspective saxophone solos and massive big band sounds, renowned Japanese jazz expert Yusuke Ogawa presents an essential 14 track collecti
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Various: WaJazz: Japanese Jazz Spectacle Vol. I - Deep, Heavy and Beautiful Jazz from Japan 1968-1984 LP
C$54.99
Empire of Signs Yoshimura, Hiroshi: Music For Nine Post Cards LP
Despite his status as a key figure in the history of Japanese ambient music, Hiroshi Yoshimura remains tragically under-known outside of his home country. Empire of Signs – a new imprint co-helmed by Maxwell August Croy, Spencer Doran and distributed by L
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Yoshimura, Hiroshi: Music For Nine Post Cards LP
C$34.99
Universal Sato, Hiroshi: Oracle LP
After working for Shigeru Suzuki’s hackle back, he also participated in many Tin Pan family sessions. Japan’s leading keyboardist, producer, and music director who receives tremendous respect from big names such as Haruomi Hosono, YMO, Eiichi Otaki, and T
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Sato, Hiroshi: Oracle LP
C$119.99
Nippon Columbia Yamaya, Kiyoshi: Tsugaru / Osorezan LP
Kiyoshi Yamaya’s first work in the “Japanese melody by PCM recording” series

Side A incorporates Biwa and Shakuhachi and Japanese drums under the theme of the shrine maiden’s mouth-to-mouth that is handed down to Osorezan on the Shimokita Peninsula. A
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Yamaya, Kiyoshi: Tsugaru / Osorezan LP
C$79.99
180g Yamaya, Kiyoshi: Wamono Groove: Shakuhachi & Koto Jazz Funk ’76 LP
Following the already classic Wamono A to Z trilogy, 180g presents an exceptional collection of jazz funk / rare groove tunes recorded in the mid-seventies at the Nippon Columbia studios by three giants of Japanese music: arranger Kiyoshi Yamaya, koto leg
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Yamaya, Kiyoshi: Wamono Groove: Shakuhachi & Koto Jazz Funk ’76 LP
C$39.99
Ba Da Bing Aoba, Ichiko: Windswept Adan LP
Ichiko Aoba’s albums have only been available as expensive Japanese imports, until now. In November, Ba Da Bing will release Windswept Adan on 2xLP in North America, Europe and the United Kingdom, with deluxe packaging.

After creating her label, hermi
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Aoba, Ichiko: Windswept Adan LP
C$44.99
Light in the Attic Various: Pacific Breeze 2: Japanese City Pop, AOR & Boogie 1972-1986 LP
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-aft
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Various: Pacific Breeze 2: Japanese City Pop, AOR & Boogie 1972-1986 LP
C$49.99
Warner Matsushita, Makoto: First Light (Orange) LP
A long-awaited LP vinyl reissue that is very popular as a Japanese AOR masterpiece. Makoto Matsushita is a well-known guitarist who participated in the fusion funk group AB’s with Tomaru Yoshino. The album is full of AOR taste, originally released in 1981
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Matsushita, Makoto: First Light (Orange) LP
C$79.99
Les Rallizes Denudes: Double Heads 1980 - 1981 BOX
They were punk before punks, avant rockers before avant rock, noise before noise and their on-again/off-again career, which spanned the years 1967-1996, continues to cast a huge shadow across the psychedelic underground. Between August 1980 and March 1981
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Les Rallizes Denudes: Double Heads 1980 - 1981 BOX
C$219.99
HMV Jiro Inagaki & His Soul Media/Y. Sawada: Dosojin LP
Japanese RSD release! Jiro Inagaki ran through his time as a standard-bearer of jazz-rock. He leads the soul media and leaves many works, but the one that gains cult popularity as a unique work is this work “Dosojin” recorded in 1972. The folk songs recon
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Jiro Inagaki & His Soul Media/Y. Sawada: Dosojin LP
C$79.99
Light in the Attic Hosono, Hauromi: Hosono House LP
The unbelievably prolific Haruomi Hosono is one of the major architects of modern Japanese pop music. With his encyclopedic knowledge of music and boundless curiosity for new sounds, Hosono has put his unmistakable stamp on hundreds of recordings as a ses
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Hosono, Hauromi: Hosono House LP
C$44.99
Riot Season Mainliner: Dual Myths 2LP
Gatefold sleeve; one record on silver vinyl, one record on black vinyl. The follow-up to Mainliner's 2013 comeback album Revelation Space has been rumored for many years. There have been tales of several attempts being finished and scrapped in the last fi
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Mainliner: Dual Myths 2LP
C$54.99
Glossy Mistakes Yas-Kaz: Jomon-sho LP
Glossy Mistakes present a reissue of Yas-Kaz’s Jomon-Sho, originally released in 1985. Peaceful, percussive, and idyllic new age from Japanese composer and student of gamelan music, Yas-Kaz. This seminal album is a cornerstone to understanding the Japanes
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Yas-Kaz: Jomon-sho LP
C$44.99
180g Various: WAMONO A to Z Vol. I - Japanese Jazz Funk & Rare Groove 1968-1980 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 the Wamono style, Yoshizawa published the Wamono A to Z records guide book in
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Various: WAMONO A to Z Vol. I - Japanese Jazz Funk & Rare Groove 1968-1980 LP
C$39.99
Black Editions Imai, Kazuo: Far and Wee LP
Black Editions present a reissue of Kazuo Imai's far and wee, originally released in 2004. Kazuo Imai is one of the few artists to traverse both Japan's early avant-garde and free jazz movements. Though he began performing in the 1970s, his 2004 P.S.F. al
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Imai, Kazuo: Far and Wee LP
C$35.99
WRWTFWW Hamase, Motohiko: Notes Of Forestry LP
WRWTFWW Records present the official reissue of Motohiko Hamase's remarkable ambient/environmental/minimalism project #Notes of Forestry, available for the first time since its original release in 1988. The album is sourced from original masters and avail
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Hamase, Motohiko: Notes Of Forestry LP
C$44.99
Light in the Attic Yoshimura, Hiroshi: Green LP
Barely known outside of his home country during his lifetime, the late Japanese ambient music pioneer Hiroshi Yoshimura has seen his global stature rise steadily in the past few years. The 2017 reissue of his lauded debut, Music For Nine Post Cards, along
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Yoshimura, Hiroshi: Green LP
C$39.99