Expected shipping mid June A beautiful album re-emerges from realms of mystery! The long- awaited vinyl reissue of a Japanese neoclassical/experimental/new age/electronic music classic, originally released in 1978. […]
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Tsunaki Kadowaki, a staff member at Kyoto’s record store Meditations, the supervisor of “New Age Music Disc Guide”, and the founder of Sad Disco, curates the fourth installment […]
This is a lovely and surprising treat indeed. Composer and multi-instrumentalist Tim Hodgkinson (Henry Cow and much more) partners with vocalist Atsuko Kamura (Mizutama Shobodan aka Polka Dot […]
International man of dub techno mystery, Shinichi Atobe returns to DDS with a new double album of pensile steppers and lip-smacking, feathered swang, a good 10 years since […]
Midnight In Tokyo Vol. 1 is a compilation of Japanese disco, boogie, and soul music. The compilation starts off with the Afro disco classic “Mi Mi Africa” by […]
Midnight In Tokyo 2, the second installment to the compilation series that rounds up hidden gems by Japanese artists that’s perfect for listening at night in Tokyo, is […]
Originally released in 1982; ** Japanese Pressing with OBI & official Japanese hype sticker** The once thought impossible-to-reissue album a Japanese duo (Fumio Ichimura, Masao Hiruma) “Testpattern”s only […]
Following their 2024 reissue of Hiroshi Yoshimura’s classic album, Surround, Temporal Drift proudly presents the first-ever reissue of FLORA, Yoshimura’s underappreciated ambient classic. FLORA was originally recorded and […]
The first time Ryuichi Sakamoto left Japan, he did not go to the United States or Europe – he went to Jamaica. It was 1978, YMO were about […]
“A masterpiece co-crafted by electronic maestros Mixmaster Morris and Jonah Sharp at Haruomi Hosono’s Studio back in 1997, Quiet Logic encapsulates a time when electronic music was undergoing […]
Organic experimental electronic pop from the breathy-voiced Japanese singer NTsKi, who collaborated with 7FO on that beautiful Brenda Ray / Naffi Sandwich cover in 2019. Slow tempos, peculiar […]
Essential Kankyō Ongaku! Much like ECM’s motto “The Next Best Sound to Silence,” ‘Soundscape 1: Surround’ is one of the best albums to have playing in your home, […]
N.D.E is a heady trip into heavy atmospherics and psychedelic rhythms leaning heavily on tabla and arabic instruments along with Bill Laswell’s singular ambient dub. Recommended! Originally released […]