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100x 12" Record Inner Sleeves

Release: 1974 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The sole album released in 1974 from this almighty group of nine musicians lead by Chicago native Danny Leake continues to turn up in the hands of the most determined collectors for good reason. Formed in the most unlikely of circumstances as a group of American military workers stationed in Germany, the band made one dazzling leap onto the frontline of soul before promptly disbanding and never looking back. As with all records that get marked with the coveted 'rare' status, what we don't know about the record outweighs what we do, but as the needle fits the groove on album opener "You Keep Coming Back," and the vocal and instrumental harmonies build into a frenzy, the addictive joy of the record takes hold for repeated listens. P-vine is delighted to be bringing this album back from the vaults for a limited pressing fitted with a unique Japanese obi strip.

After the opener rich with soul, "No More City, No More Country" changes pace with a psychedelic funk jam that blossoms into a piece of spiritual jazz and social commentary of 70s America. "Windy C" is an album highlight and kicks off the B-side with a lost funk classic where the individual talents of Steve Maxwell's organ playing, Leake's guitar and John Jackson's percussion all combine to make the deftest of touches count. The wealth of compositional talent behind the album contributes to its varied sound, and the might behind Marvin Daniels' vocals and trumpet playing joins Leake on the songwriting credits with producer Rick Hartung. Leake would later make his name as the trusted sound engineer of Stevie Wonder, but his roots as the mythical bandleader of 100% Pure Poison lives on in the books of rare record folklore.

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Innenhüllen (KATTA Inside Sleeves / antistatisch / halbrund / transparent)

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100x 12" Record Inner Sleeves

Innenhüllen (KATTA Sleeves 50 Micron - Square / antistatisch / transparent)

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100x 12" Record Outer Sleeves

Außenhüllen (KATTA Outside Sleeves / 323mm x 319mm)

23,99 €*

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100x 12" Record Outer Sleeves

Außenhüllen (KATTA Outside Sleeves / 323mm x 323mm)

23,99 €*

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100x 7" Record Inner Sleeves

Innenhüllen (KATTA Inside Sleeves / antistatisch / halbrund / transparent)

13,99 €*

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100x 7" Record Outer Sleeves

Außenhüllen (KATTA Outside Sleeves)

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100x 7" Record Outer Sleeves

Außenhüllen (KATTA Outside Sleeves / mit Klebeverschluss)

15,99 €*

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7" | 2021 | UK | Original (Emotional Rescue)

101 Band

Crazy Kind Of Feeling

9,74 €* 12,99 € -25%

LP | 1976 | JP | Reissue (P-Vine)

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Emotional Rescue and HMV Record Shop (Japan) present the 2nd Disco Reggae Lovers with the music of Haile Maskel and his 101 Band and their cult Jamaica meets America reggae disco bomb Crazy Kind Of Feeling, in it's super rare 7" Mix. Heralding from the furtive 60's Trenchtown, Jamaica, Michael Ashley aka Haile Maskel grew up around music, recording his first sessions with friend Bob Marley, alongside the likes of Peter Tosh, Robbie Shakespeare and Carlton Barrett. Working with Lee Perry, he joined Light Of Saba, while touring with Dennis Brown and Sugar Minott led him overseas, settling in Los Angeles in 1983 and soon launching his Opulence (Sound) label. The label's in house project, Maskel's 101 Band mixed a conscious message in love song, crafted around a boogie discodub. Coming as 7" and 12" (erc101) releases, here the single is presented alongside the true dub version. Dub Take 2 was discovered when the original master tapes were recently unearthed and while the recent 12" reissue featured an "instrumental alternative mix", Dub Take 1, this 7" includes a real dub version, cutting and dropping back and forth between drums, bass, key, vocals and horns in a cool excursion for the heads.

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1619 Bad Ass Band

38,99 €*

2LP | 2023 | UK | Original (1991)

Release: 1976 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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To single out a release in catalogue of the 70s famed ‘tax scam’ label TSG is a hard ask - the level of quality remained both consistently and inexplicably high during its two years of operation. Thus calling 1619 Bad Ass Band’s 1976 self-titled album a stand-out release doesn’t honour the spirit of the catalogue, and yet, by all accounts, everything about this monolithic funk and soul unit is striking.

Lead by bandleader Khalid Abdul Shalid, album opener “Love to Love” beats down the door with a pulsating funk jam, snarling boy-girl vocal comradery and segues into the mellower reverb-soaked soul track “I Am Mine”. Phyllis Harris, sister of band bassist Carl Harris, takes over as the lead vocalist soon after, and shines on baroque pop-infused album highlight “Just for You”. She later delivers a knock-out vocal performance on the moving soul ballad “Rain (Always Finds Me Crying)”. The band depart on “Nobody” in the same way as they arrive with more stellar funk grooves and call-and-response unity.

Prices on the second-hand market for the original LP and 1978 Graham International reissue have priced out virtually everyone interested in the release for decades. For its first widely available release, P-vine is thrilled to be reissuing the album on LP fitted with an iconic Japanese obi strip.

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1991

Odyssey

29,99 €*

20x 7" Record Outer Sleeves

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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1991
London-based DJ and producer 1991 has emerged as one of the most exciting artists in dance music. Since starting the project back in 2016, within a year he'd won the 'Best Newcomer' award at the 2017 Drum & Bass Awards. He has held down a steady release schedule of hits, collaborating with the likes of Sub Focus and Netsky, and remixed Axwell, Chase & Status, Claptone and Basement Jaxx. His touring schedule has seen him travel across the globe, with sell out tours across Europe, North America, Japan and Australia & New Zealand.
Artist Stats
- Spotify monthly listeners: 726k / followers: 30.6K
- Facebook likes: 31K
- Instagram followers: 19.7K

LP Info + Stats
- Debut album from 1991
- 12" double white vinyl, custom linework inner sleeve, de-bossed Odyssey outer sleeve
- Album artwork designed in conjunction with the award winning creative agency Big Active and imagery captured by the accomplished photographer Sam Neill.
- 6M+ streams across the album
- 'Odyssey' and 'Life' Hottest Record on Dance Anthems on BBC R1
- 306 radio plays to date across all singles on stations worldwide, including BBC R1, Triple J, George FM, Kiss FM, Pulzar, and more
- Feature interview with George FM
DSP editorial playlist inclusions on:
- Spotify's New Music Friday UK, New Dance Revolution, and Massive Drum & Bass
- Apple Music's danceXL, Future Dance Hits, New in Dance, Drum'n'Bass, Breaking Dance, and Heavy Hitters
- Amazon's Drum & Bass Now, Fresh Dance, Brand New Music, and The Sound Of Modern House
- Deezer's Selected DnB
- Youtube's Electronic Hotlist, and New Dance & Electronic

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Außenhüllen JC-20 (Japan Sleeves / 0,10mm)

12,00 €*

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Studio Mule)

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JC-20 RECORD JACKET COVER

Protect your records from dirt and dust with these outer sleeves for 7" singles.

• dimensions: 190 x 190 x 0.10 mm
• selling unit: 20 pieces
• Made in Japan

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222

Song For Joni

25x 10" Record Inner Sleeves

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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A pure journey inward into the headspace of an artist, that reveals his gaze at the earth-ly zones he walks in: “Song for Joni”, the new album by Japanese musician Shunji Mori, brings pure natural music full of artificial nuances who create in conversation with ana-logue tones a new kind of musical nature, loaded with vibrant seasons, unknown to us, the unwise humans. moreover, the album is a fine continuation of Japan’s rich ambient leaning music traditions, carrying them into Lorren Connor’s like pending guitar galaxies.

In the 1990s Tokyo based Mori was part of the trip hop, nu-jazz, deep house, and down-tempo duo natural calamity, releasing a string of albums and EP’s on labels like legend-ary London based imprint Nuphonic, Japanese Idyllic Records or Down 2 Earth Record-ings.

In 2003 he launched the instrumental guitar duo Gabby & Lopez with his buddy Masayuki Ishii. Together they created three albums and performed live. Additionally, Mori plays improvisational concerts with Japanese musician, multi-instrumentalist, and stage direc-tor Daiho Soga and finds time to invent his very own, charismatic guitar music.

His solo work now finally gets introduced with a full-length album for Studio Mule, con-sisting of recent and a decade ago compositions, all merely recorded with the electric guitar, pedals, and field recordings.

In the center of “Song for Joni” is the guitar, spreading longing, drifting melodies. Free floating, yet deeply felt compositions, performed in an accurate journey music style. around the string notes, ambient landscapes soar and vanish.

In some moments, the guitar works like a slow-mo yacht rock lead, flying speed less over and under imaginative sonic clouds. Then, Mori’s music distributes psychedelic ef-fects in the tradition of krautrock legends like Günter Schickert, just without the echo fuzz.

Additionally, in warm vibrating seconds, his creations remind on the calm flashes in the musical work of English photographer, musician, and artist designer Steve Hiett, while Mori’s ambient spheres come close to the magic vibe of records like “Pier & Loft” by his fellow countryman Hiroshi Yoshimura.

A mixture, that transports considerate listeners into the meditative world of Shunji Mori, a calm island of bliss, made for all those that follow the heedful path of life.

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Innenhüllen (KATTA Inside Sleeves / antistatisch / halbrund / transparent)

4,99 €*

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25x 10" Record Outer Sleeves

Außenhüllen (KATTA Outside Sleeves / mit Klebeverschluss)

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30x 12" Record Outer Sleeves

Außenhüllen JC-30 (Japan Sleeves / 0,10mm)

19,00 €*

LP | 1983 | JP | Original (A&M)

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JC-30 RECORD OUTER SLEEVES 325X325MM

To protect your 12" records from dust and other contaminants, Nagaoka has developed the JC-30 outer sleeves. Compared to the earlier model No108/3, the thickness of the sleeves has been revised to provide even more reliable protection. The outer shells measure 325 mm wide x 325 mmm high.

• dimensions: 325 x 325 x 0.10 mm
• selling unit: 30 pieces
• Made in Japan

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38 Special

Tour De Force

9,99 €*

LP | 1983 | JP | Original (A&M)

Release: 1983 / JP – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

Japanese pressing without OBI!

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38 Special

Tour De Force

2LP | 2011 | EU | Original (Project: Mooncircle)

Release: 1983 / JP – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

Japanese pressing with OBI! Vinyl is close to NM!

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40 Winks

It's The Trip

15,99 €*

LP | 2011 | EU | Original (Project: Mooncircle)

Release: 2011 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Electronic & Dance

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Join 40 Winks on a road trip to anywhere. Bring your music player and tell your honey you won’t be home for dinner. It’s the trip, not the destination.“
About 40 Winks:
No hay banda! (“there is no band”, Mulholland Dr. 2001) pretty much sums up where 40 Winks aims to go with its instrumental hip hop: meticulously chop and paste samples together, to create an atmosphere of beats and vibes which steps beyond unimaginative loops. 40 Winks hit the scene in 2002, with a whole slew of laidback beats. Eager to share their sound with the world, they released a couple of albums independently. The attention they got from this, allowed them to build with people from around the world. One of these independently released albums, More Than Loops, got reissued in Japan on Swamp Records, after that the ball kept rolling. On their first worldwide release, Extended Pleasure on Escapism Records (2005), they reached listeners well beyond the (instrumental) hip hop community with the song “Melancholia”. After appearances on compilations, like Weapons Of Hope on Little-D (2006), they got a chance to do their thing on the renowned label, Merck Records with Sound Puzzle (2007). All this led them back to Europe, where the German based Project: Mooncircle welcomed them with a spot on the compilation Heart On The Right Spot (2007) and a full album The Lucid Effect (2008). In 2009 they took some time off, doing solo stuff and remixes. In 2011 40 Winks is back with a double LP called It’s The Trip (2011) on Project: Mooncircle.
Artwork By Afreux.

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40 Winks

It's The Trip HHV Bundle

50x 12" Record Inner Sleeves

Release: 2011 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Electronic & Dance

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Innenhüllen (KATTA Inside Sleeves / antistatisch / halbrund / transparent)

9,99 €*

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50x 12" Record Inner Sleeves

Innenhüllen (KATTA Sleeves / Anti-Static Lined Inner Sleeves without Arrows)

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50x 12" Record Inner Sleeves

Innenhüllen RS-LP2 (Japan Sleeves / antistatisch / schwarz)

30,00 €*

LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Metron)

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RS-LP2 ANTI-STATIC RECORD SLEEVES

More than 35 years ago Nagaoka added them to its program under the type designation No. 102. Because they were the best. And today, in the third development generation called RS-LP2, Nagaoka still sells them - for the same reason!

More effective than any other product, the RS-LP2 prevents the vinyl from static electricity, making it easier to remove the record, protecting the groove from damage caused by dust and preventing the unsightly audible static discharge during playback. Give it a try!

• static charge is prevented
• protects your 12" vinyl records from dust damage
• the smooth cover prevents damage to your records
• one package contains 50 pieces
• Dimensions approx.: 308 x 308 mm, rounded on one side
• Made in Japan

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7fo

Music For Himitsu

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Conatala)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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For Métron Records' tenth album release, the label welcomes back Japanese artist 7FO (rvng, Bokeh Versions, EM Records) for his second album on the imprint. Originally created to accompany a 2014 exhibition by Osaka art collective Himitsu, Music For Himitsu has now been remastered and pressed to vinyl for the first time. Made up of ceramicist Shiori Nishino, photographer Hiroshi Nakamura and landscape gardener Takashi Torigoe, Himitsu showcased an elemental combination of light (photography), water (plants) and earth (ceramics) to explore a locale of beauty where harmony and discord coexist. Realising their show was missing one final piece of the puzzle, they asked fellow Osaka native 7FO to create a soundtrack for the show. The work was played on a loop throughout the run and on one occasion was performed live. ‘‘The idea was to be in harmony with the exhibition but to stick out a little. We aimed to create an exquisite image that would serve as a backdrop, but not be hidden.’’ Constructed using improvised guitar loops, field recordings and 7FO’s now signature ellipsoid effects and found sounds, the music was originally recorded over an old 90s pop mixtape picked up at an audio store in Nishinari Ward, Osaka. In the spirit of the show, the cassette tape was reclaimed and given a new life as the substrate for Music For Himitsu. The cascading water and verdant soundscapes, shimmering textures of light and tertiary percussion all evoke feelings of nascent optimism. Repetition collides with subtle tonal variation as sections swell, build and mutate organically into vast soundscapes that imbue the digital with the natural.

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7fo

Ran - Bouten

29,99 €*

2x12" | 2023 | JP | Original (Adeen)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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“When I started working on the piece in March of 2020, I had only decided to record it in the way I wanted to. The coronavirus was spreading globally, and the situation was gradually changing into something very serious. With no gigs scheduled and hardly seeing anyone, I felt as if my spirit was in a slightly deeper place than usual during the production. I sat down in front of my equipment as if I were dropping a fishing line into a quiet lake. I kept feeling that something new was lurking beneath the water surface. I was trying to catch that something that seemed to be just out of reach, that floated in and out of sight like a speck of smoke. “ ＿Referenced from: Afterword of 7FO「Ran - Bouten」 2021 brings a new album by Osaka electronic musician / producer 7FO. This work is a departure from the recent global ambient / new age approach, and the unique sound aesthetic created using only hardware equipment is a new frontier of 7FO or a return to his origin. "Ran - Bouten" is a new electronic music album with a poetic sensibility using machines.Discovered by overseas labels such as Rvng intl., Bokeh Versions, and Metron-and with the release that followed EM Records in his hometown Osaka, it's like his personal folk craft that was once quietly played at his own pace. Music has reached listeners around the world. In recent years, he has been touring from a famous performance with Tapes at the Belgian "Meakusma Festival 2019" to a Japan-Korea tour. "Ran - Bouten" was born as a result of facing the sound alone without being asked by anyone to cool down the heat when the steaming and intense experience had settled down. Inside the cool electronic sound like a water bath, you can feel the maker's heart sending hot blood.Peep into the condensed universe of a home-recorded miniature world that looks like an independent production of unknown age. He was alone in a dark room, making full use of KAWAI's 1990 digital and FM synthesizers , tracing the shape of nature and resonating the micro and macro sound worlds. The Rhythm and melody that continues to the Paradise Pure Land, which floats in a dreamy atmosphere, is the true value of 7FO even without his guitar play.Mastering by Makoto Oshiro, which supports everything from home listening to club sound systems. Hiroaki Hidaka designed the jacket to make the image of the sound appear cool and friendly everywhere.

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A Band Of Brothers

Day/Night Jp Import

28,99 €*

LP | 1979 | JP | Original (Capitol)

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Beijing based Leele, Tokyo based S.O.N and Detroit transplant Camille has come together to give you something soothing from Adeen records. Their debut live studio album A Band Of Brothers is a nice warm welcome from the label that's known for house and techno. The late 70's early 80's Japanese fusion jazz influenced offering is split into two discs with one being all jazz, and disc two being remixed into breezy house tracks. Rather is an easy chilled out vibe or a night on the dancefloor, A Band Of Brother got you covered for all occasions.

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A Taste Of Honey

Another Taste

8,99 €*

A Vision Of Panorama Feat. Eiko Hara

Release: 1979 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG

Japanese pressing with obi.
Obi has some tears.

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Unconditional

12" | 2023 | UK | Original (Cala Tarida Musica)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Russia's mellow music phenomenon Mikhail Khvasko aka A Vision Of Panorama teams up with lovely Japanese vocalist Eiko Hara for one of the smoothest yet danceable tunes of 2023.

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2LP | 1980 | JP | Reissue (Discomate)

ABBA's Greatest Hits 24

16,99 €*

Release: 1980 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG

Japanese pressing without OBI! Cover with some yellowing!

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2LP | 1977 | JP | Original (Discomate)

ABBA's Greatest Hits 24

Release: 1977 / JP – Original

Genre: Pop

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

Japanese pressing with obi and insert.

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LP | 1978 | JP | Reissue (Discomate)

Arrival = アライバル

Release: 1978 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Pop

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

Japanese pressing without OBI!

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Super Trouper = スーパー・トゥルーパー

LP | 1980 | JP | Original (Discomate)

Release: 1980 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Pop

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG

Original japanese pressing without OBI!

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Super Trouper = スーパー・トゥルーパー

LP | 1980 | JP | Original (Discomate)

Release: 1980 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Pop

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

Japanese pressing with OBI.

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LP | 1978 | JP | Original (Discomate)

The Album

Release: 1978 / JP – Original

Genre: Pop

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG

Japanese pressing without OBI, with insert.

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LP | 1979 | JP | Original (Discomate)

Voulez-Vous

LP | 1984 | JP | Original (Mercury)

Release: 1979 / JP – Original

Genre: Pop

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

Japanese pressing, no Obi, with insert.

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ABC

Beauty Stab

9,99 €*

LP | 1982 | JP | Original (Mercury)

Release: 1984 / JP – Original

Genre: Pop

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint

Japanese pressing with obi.

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ABC

The Lexicon Of Love

11,99 €*

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Billbrook)

Release: 1982 / JP – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Pop

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

Japanese pressing with obi.

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Aboriginal Voices

Instant Music

LP | 2021 | JP | Original (P-Vine)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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For a quarter of an hour, Zürich was the navel of the world. Let's look back: at New York's CBGB's, pre-punks were shredding away, Malcolm McLaren, as a man with a fine-tuned taste for the hip, imported the sound to London, where his sweetheart Vivienne Westwood dressed the test-tube band The Sex Pistols. A few pop magazines later (we are in an analog world!) punk bands sprouted everywhere, like shiny pimples on poorly fed teenagers. Contrary to legend, even back then, it was often those with a musical background who were the most successful. One such example, Henrich "Wüste" Zwahlen, who had learned the violin, attended a jazz school and went into prog-rock before joining the Nasal Boys, one of the first punk bands in Zürich. The scene included the female band Kleenex (cover: Fischli of art heroes Fischli/Weiss), whose minimalism was praised by the London music press, while the world's most important rock theorist, Greil Marcus, wrote an ode highlighting Zürich's role as the birthplace of Dadaism. A fertile ground for the militant youth movement that exploded in 1980 and stirred up the city of banks, protestantism and boredom with raw wit and expressive violence. Gathering at concerts of local bands and fueled by endogenous and artificial substances - they paid homage to exuberance and self-indulgence. The mantra of "everything-is-possible" was driven forward on the musical front by progress in terms of means of production: analog electronic instruments were no longer reserved for hippie nerds, who sat in front of large plug-in boards like autistic-psychedelic switchboard operators connecting cables for their sound carpets. Now snazzy stage personnel elicited fast-paced sounds from handy devices often made in Japan. Kraftwerk was fashionable, the Zurich duo Yello experimented with new synthetic sounds, and the groundbreaking album "Alles Ist Gut" by the Düsseldorf based duo D.A.F. (Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft) was released, which chanted its program of provocation times danceability with lines such as "Tanz den Jesus Christus, tanz the Mussolini, tanz the Adolf Hitler." In England meanwhile, electronically backed New Romantic bands were replacing New Wave. The Human League, Heaven 17, Duran Duran, OMD, Depeche Mode or Visage stormed the charts. In Zürich's underground, the duo Aboriginal Voices caused a stir at that time. A couple, good-looking, styled, looking cool into the cold neon light, with a danceable beat and sequenced electro sounds, to which Micheline gave a very unique touch when she sang in French and English. Micheline had a classical piano education, had left home early, worked as a lighting technician in a strip joint and at Booster, the hottest boutique in town (one of the relicts that still exists). Voilà: a musician who was as stylish as she was tough. She was already playing with Wüste in the band "Doobie Doos", a band where everyone played an instrument they didn't master. In 1980 the Aboriginal Voices were formed, initially with vocalist Magda Vogel (of later UnknownmiX fame), who was trained as a classical singer.

Frustrated by organizational friction and constant hassles with band lineups, Wüste and Misch decided to do everything as a twosome: self-mixed, self-styled, self-produced. With the top-of-the-line Linn drum machine clocking the beat, Wüste's guitar and Micheline on the Yamaha synthesizer created a unique sound of danceable electronic music. Whereby the Aboriginal Voices acted as a kind of proto-influencer, receiving the latest equipment to try out, especially since they made it a point not to work with tapes, but to design everything for live shows. They had an interface built for the legendary Roland Mc-4b, who sequenced the modular Roland System 100m but where one output controlled a light show synchronized with the sound. A pioneering act that fit well into the DIY spirit of punk, with its self-distributed tapes and fuck-you attitude towards the cretins of the music industry. Consequently only two cassettes and an EP were released. There was something futuristic about the sound, the vestiary style and the electronics, while the attitude remained rebellious. Of course something so deeped in the Zeitgeist wasn't meant to last. Wüste moved to New York, Micheline stayed in Zurich, both still active in the music scene to this day.

Sven Regener, head of the band Element of Crime and one of Germany's most successful pop writer said a few years ago when asked if he knew of any Swiss music: "Of course! In 1983, a Swiss band called Aboriginal Voices played with us at a festival in Zurich. Great, avant-garde electro-pop. That was my first encounter."

If you ever saw them live, you never forgot them, and so over the years you belonged to a teeny-tiny circle of insiders, happy to be joined after all these years by new aficionados who appreciate the sound of that quarter-hour, when Zurich was ravishing, creative and exciting.

- Thomas Haemmerli

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Aburadako

Adk

43,99 €*

LP | 2023 | JP | Original (P-Vine)

Release: 2021 / JP – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Abradako was formed in 1983 by Hirotomo Hasegawa. In the punk / hardcore scene of the time, it has attracted attention as a completely different personality compared with other bands and gained cult popularity. In 1985, released the 1st album "Aburadako". Since then, he has released seven albums by the time he stopped their activity in 2009. All album titles are "Aburadako". P-vine presents parts of their discography as LP for the first time. All titles come with OBI-strip. "adk" is their early stadio recordings which including the tracks before their music style are getting more avantgarde, more proressive. some tracks is come from compilation albums from Tokuma Japan.

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Aburadako

Adk Picture Disc Edition

38,99 €*

12" | 2022 | JP | Original (Yokujitsu)

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Compiling Japanese hardcore punk band Aburadako’s earliest recordings, this collection of rarities and early singles is absolutely brutal! With songs taken from their earliest self-released flexi-disc, a Tokuma Japan punk compilation (Greatest Punk Hits (1983)), and their 1984 mini album, ADK is 14 songs of pure, unrestrained punk spirit! Hirotomo’s vocals are at times incomprehensible, and the recording quality isn’t the best - but who needs those when you have some of the heaviest basslines and brutal drum grooves to come out of Japan? Pressed on a limited edition picture disc, this compilation of Aburadako’s earliest recordings is a must-have for all fans of Japanese hardcore!

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Aburadako

Kerosene

29,99 €*

Ace A.K.A. Dangerousraggamuffin

Release: 2022 / JP – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Aburadako's "Yokujitsu" (The Day After), a masterpiece that will remain in the history of Japanese punk/rock, was performed at Shimokitazawa Shelter on May 12, 2002, for 23 minutes and 56 seconds, and is now available in analog form for the first time after 20 years!

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Foundation (S.A.P.P.O.R.O.)

7" | 2023 | JP | Original (Frankly Freaky)

11,54 €* 20,99 € -45%

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Nothing But Net)

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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"Sapporo City Hard Core RaggaMuffin JazzHiphop" ACE a.k.a DangerousRagaaMaffin", representing his hometown of Sapporo ChocolateFactory, will release "Foundation (S.A.P.P.O.R.O.)" on 7" with Beni Zakura as a guest performer! Mr. Freaky Flow, who adds Jazz to RAP and Reggae, ACE a.k.a DangerousRagaaMaffin, who represents ChocolateFactory in his hometown of Sapporo, is going to release a 7" including "foundation (S.A.P.P.O.R.O.)" featuring the legendary rapper from Okayama Beni Zakura, and "DangerousRaggaMuffin"" which he also produced the track, both are from his first album "slippin' Into Concrete Jungle"!! Mixing & Mastering is by Japan's world-class legend dj honda, a powerful lineup!!

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Ace Hashimoto

Play.Make.Believe.

22,99 €*

Play.Make.Believe Clear Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Ace Hashimoto is a contemporary R&B singer, songwriter, and producer whose smooth vocals, frequently applied to jazzy hip-hop inspired productions, resemble a distinctive cross between Pharrell Williams and Frank Ocean. The Chicago native has been active on the hip-hop scene, producing for SZA, Mac Miller, and Chance the Rapper amongst others before moving to Toyko in 2017 to hone his songwriting & singing capabilities. While living in Japan, he wrote for two of the country's biggest acts in Exile and CRAZYBOY/Elly of J-Soul Brothers and collaborated with fellow label-mate, Devin Morrison.

The following year, around the time he scored his first digital hit "Natural" feat. Moeshop -- acquiring over 2 million plays on Spotify -- Hashimoto began working on Play.Make.Believe, an album recorded over a 3 month span after returning to the United States. He was able to enlist the talents of pH-1 (of Jay Park's H1ghrmusic), H.E.R producer, Lophile & many more assist in crafting this beautiful nod to his influences. The album's title, "Play.Make.Believe." comes from Hashimoto's acknowledgement of the music he grew up on as child and his effort to recreate that nostalgia for the future generation.

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Ace Hashimoto

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Nbn)

28,99 €*

Does The Cosmic Shepherd Dream Of Electric Tapirs?

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Ace Hashimoto is a contemporary R&B singer, songwriter, and producer whose smooth vocals, frequently applied to jazzy hip-hop inspired productions, resemble a distinctive cross between Pharrell Williams and Frank Ocean. The Chicago native has been active on the hip-hop scene, producing for SZA, Mac Miller, and Chance the Rapper amongst others before moving to Tokyo in 2017 to hone his songwriting & singing capabilities. While living in Japan, he wrote for two of the country's biggest acts in Exile and CRAZYBOY/Elly of J-Soul Brothers and collaborated with fellow label-mate, Devin Morrison. The following year, around the time he scored his first digital hit "Natural" feat. Moeshop -- acquiring over 2 million plays on Spotify -- Hashimoto began working on Play.Make.Believe, an album recorded over a 3 month span after returning to the United States. He was able to enlist the talents of pH-1 (of Jay Park's H1ghrmusic), H.E.R producer, Lophile & many more assist in crafting this beautiful nod to his influences. The album's title, "Play.Make.Believe." comes from Hashimoto's acknowledgement of the music he grew up on as child and his effort to recreate that nostalgia for the future generation.

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Acid Mothers Temple

LP | 2004 | Reissue (Space Age)

42,99 €*

Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO

Release: 2004 / Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Solid green coloured heavyweight 180 gram audiophile vinyl double LP reissue with the new 2019 artwork layout. Re-mastered by John Rivers at Woodbine Street Studio especially for vinyl release.Does The Cosmic Shepherd Dream Of Electric Tapirs? is not only a question deserving of an answer, but also the title of Acid Mother Temples first ever release on Space Age Recordings. As a Japanese soul collective, Acid Mothers Temple and The Melting Paraiso UFO are something of an enigma to the western world, and most likely to eastern ears too. Their music can be described as acid-rock, experimental, psychedelic or a whole host of genres dependent on the listeners' mood. Having been out of stock for some time, the long anticipated repress of this wild offering from AMT, comes as double solid green vinyl with the seductive, uncensored artwork of the original sleeve. Limited to 500 copies ww.

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Trust Masked Replicants

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Important)

Acker Bilk With The Leon Young String Chorale

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Japan's long running masters of psych/kosmische jamming return to Important Records for a vinyl outing featuring beloved original member Cotton Casino.

Trust Masked Replicants finds AMT in fine form, creating experimental psych-rock improvised around skeletal compositions. The group's leader, Kawabata Makoto, holds the group together while they navigate chaos infused, drone based jamming at the outer edges of human consciousness.

Side B, featuring the 20 minute track Asoko Ananda, is a classic side-long fast paced AMT burner combining sped up kosmische rhythms, filter sweeps, free-jazz piano, tabla drumming and vocal experiments. Asoko Ananda utilizes many of the group's skills, ascending to the height of their collective, mountainous ability.

Channeling prog, krautrock, modern composition and noise, Kawabata Makoto formed the Acid Mothers Temple in the early 90's. The group has gone on to release countless albums while touring the globe.

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Clarinet Mood

LP | JP | Original (Odeon)

Kings Of The Wild Frontier

Release: JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Pop

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Adam And The Ants

LP | 1981 | JP | Original (Epic)

19,99 €*

12" | 2024 | UK | Original (181 Recordings)

Release: 1981 / JP – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: VG+

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Adam F

Music In My Mind Reboots

12" | 2018 | EU | Original (Open Channel For Dreamers)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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DJ Marky, Makoto & Nookie reboot Adam F’s revisited rework of 1997 hit, ‘Music In My Mind’

Adam F enlists jungle royalty to modernise his 1997 track, ‘Music In My Mind’, from his anticipated forthcoming rework album, ‘Colours Revisited’

Legendary drum ‘n’ bass producer Adam F announces the ‘Music In My Mind Revisited Reboots’ EP, out digitally on 20th September via 181 Recordings, featuring reworks of his acclaimed 1997 track by DJ Marky & Makoto and Nookie.

Further launching this underground dance classic into new dimensions is Brazil’s DJ Marky and expertly selected Japanese producer Makoto. Together, they effortlessly bring the jazz-infused track to the attention of today’s ravers with re-jigged, amplified drums. Certified 90s jungle veteran Nookie goes more liquid with his version, heightening the vibes and setting the scene with immense violin strings.

‘Music In My Mind’ was originally featured on Adam F’s 1997 album, ‘Colours’. Now, as part of the Liverpool-born producer’s much-anticipated ‘Colours Revisited’ album, out in 2025, the jazzy, vocoder-loaded track inspired by Bob James, Lalo Schifrin and Chick Corea, has been given a modern reshape.

“‘Music In My Mind’ speaks to the power of music to transport, heal, and uplift our spirits,” says Adam F. “This song resonates with those who find solace and freedom in the melodies and rhythms that exist in their own minds and bring back memories of a time when I felt an overwhelming connection to music.”

“This song holds a special place in my heart, and I believe it carries a deeper meaning that resonates with anyone who can relate to finding consolation and liberation in the power of music.”

There’s no better time to keep an eye on Adam F, as he uncovers yet more gold from his elegant and timeless back catalogue. Adam F is as fertile and contemporary as ever with more new production ready to launch unto the legions of listeners hungry for great music as his creativity flows brighter than ever.

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Adam Solomon

Analog Expressions EP

11,99 €*

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Another dreamer joins our OCD ranks. After our launch EP by ac$, we’ve cast our ears across the pond and discovered Adam Solomon, pushing the underground scene up in Montreal. With influences spanning across various genres, we believe Adam’s debut EP is just a small insight into what his career will bring forth. From MTL 2 the World.

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LP | JP | Original (Odeon)

3,99 €*

Release: JP – Original

Genre: Pop

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG+

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LP | 1965 | JP | Original (Epic)

Adamo À L'Olympia

Release: 1965 / JP – Original

Genre: Pop

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG+

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2LP | 1970 | JP | Original (Odeon)

All About Adamo

9,74 €* 12,99 € -25%

Release: 1970 / JP – Original

Genre: Pop

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Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

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LP | 1970 | JP | Original (Odeon)

Best 20

13,99 €*

Release: 1970 / JP – Original

Genre: Pop

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Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

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LP | 1977 | JP | Original (Odeon)

Best Of Adamo

12,59 €* 13,99 € -10%

Release: 1977 / JP – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 1971 | JP | Original (Odeon)

Le Train Va

15,99 €*

Release: 1971 / JP – Original

Genre: Pop

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Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

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LP | 1971 | JP | Original (Odeon)

Olympia 71

Feel The Night / Foxy Lady Record Store Day 2021 Edition

Release: 1971 / JP – Original

Genre: Pop

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG+

Japanese pressing. OBI is missing. With inserts.

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Afrika

7" | 2021 | JP | Reissue

19,99 €*

Desde Tokio Special Edition

Release: 2021 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Record Store Day Japan 2021 release. The world’s first 7-inch reissue from the only LP by the funk band AFRIKA formed in Osaka in 1981!

The album “FUNK CITY” released in 1985, which is popular among domestic and foreign funk-boogie enthusiasts, is a unique work that Japanese people are closest to US funk music at that time.

Under the supervision of the project Tokyo Condition by DJ Notoya, two songs, “Feel The Night”, a boogie track with undulating bass and cutting, and “Foxy Lady”, an electro-funk with a cool development in the second half, are selected from the album and are 7 inches. ·release. 8ronix remastering.

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Afro Urbanity

LP | 2023 | JP | Original (Ns Records Japan)

7" | UK | Reissue (Japan Blues)

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Creative Afro-Cuban jazz unit Afro Urbanity's album is now available on LP!

This is the latest work from the unit that has been talked about for its highly experimental arrangements and unique vocal work that mixes Afro-Cuban with jazz, funk, R&B, neo-soul, and electronica!

While respecting the Afro-Cuban sound that has its roots in black culture, the group incorporates various genres and brings together super musicians of various generations, from veterans who are very active in the Cuban, Latin, and jazz scenes in Japan to up-and-coming young artists. Afro Urbanity is highly acclaimed in Japan and abroad, and has finally released a vinyl release of selected popular songs from their last two albums! With the theme of "From Tokyo to the World," the album features the Chaka String Quartet led by violinist Sayaka, a brass section (Risaburo Matsuki Tp, Tomohisa Ishikawa Tb, Yuta Ishii Sax), and other guests who have a connection with the band, and is full of catchy and mixed elements.

The result is a pleasant work that incorporates plenty of catchy and mixed elements.

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Agi Jo

Hardly Living

Release: UK – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Vaagner)

Aging

Reworks (Rewoven)

LP | 2024 | EU | Reissue (Eskimo)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Whisky soaked, nocturnal, brooding. Aging’s album »Troubles? I Got A Bartender« was a noteworthy, film-noir infused suite that quietly slipped out on cassette in 2015 by a then budding Manchester avant-jazz ensemble, led by David McLean. In 2020, amidst the pandemic’s tempest and winter's gloom, the idea manifested of showcasing McLean’s slow burning, wistful soirée in a new light via a curated effort by Berlin’s Vaagner label, which invited a series of hand-picked artist to rework selected compositions from the album, rendering its mournful, smoke-tinged resonances into new shapes. Its result is »Reworks (Rewoven)«, and it presents 6 new interpretations by 5 artists. These range from ruminating, tape smudged ambient works interlaced with sublime acoustic strums by fellow Manchester musicians The Humble Bee and Tape Loop Orchestra, to poignant steel guitar renditions by Nashville based Kelby Clark. Furthermore, Barcelona based Dania and London based Laila Sakini, each present pieces that draw the listener into opaque realms harbored by swooning reverie and eerie, glistening prophecy. Carefully assembled across two sides of vinyl, McLean’s penchant for hard-boiled detective novels, vintage Japanese crime flicks and film noir iconography have a continued lurking presence in the reworks, yet the new pieces each add a modern facet to the original’s cinematic narrative, its morose and sulky mood now opening into new avenues of interpretation. And whilst some artists have chosen to dive further into the themes of contentious ambivalence and pensive solitude, others have sought to slightly lift the haze, stirring up melodies tinged with a sense of hope, hinting at times, towards instants of poise and vivacity. In the end this leaves us with a new body of work that manages to feel poignant in its complexity whilst remaining dissonant and elusive in its renditions, hinting at a modern day existence even more opaque, intricate and convoluted than the film noir classics of old might have pictured the world.

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Aili

Nandakke? Repress

28,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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(incl insert) A kaleidoscopic sonic riot, Nandakke? is the hotly anticipated debut album from Japanese-Belgian duo Aili. Featuring 10 tracks of surreal electro-pop, joyful electronica, house music and more, Nandakke? is a euphoric album that sees Aili Maruyama and Orson Wouters more than fulfil the promise of their acclaimed debut EP 'Dansu'.

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LP | 1983 | JP | Original (Arista)

Greatest Hits

13,99 €*

Release: 1983 / JP – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Pop

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LP | 1980 | JP | Original (Arista)

Lost In Love

3,99 €*

Release: 1980 / JP – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1982 | JP | Original (Arista)

Now And Forever

3,99 €*

Release: 1982 / JP – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 1981 | JP | Original (Arista)

The One That You Love

7,99 €*

Release: 1981 / JP – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Pop

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Medium: VG+, Cover: Near Mint

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LP | 1981 | JP | Original (Arista)

The One That You Love

Release: 1981 / JP – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Pop

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LP | 1981 | JP | Original (Arista)

The One That You Love

Album | 1980 | JP | Original (RCA)

Release: 1981 / JP – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Pop

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Airplay

11,99 €*

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Crane City Music)

Release: 1980 / JP – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Aj Suede

Avada Kedavra

43,99 €*

LP | 2024 | UK | Original (180g)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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“Avada Kedavra Deluxe,” by Seattle rapper AJ Suede, is a 21-track, self-produced, self-referencing, double-vinyl labyrinth of experimental boom-bap. Building on a signature style that Spin magazine describes as “stream-of-consciousness rhymes, containing everything from socio-political commentary and blunted cinematic allusions to psychedelic visions,” Suede’s creation is as compelling as it is unclassifiable. On the first LP, Suede demonstrates his substantial skills as a beatmaker and rapper, chopping up what Seattle’s Kexp calls “the smoothest, jazziest, weirdest samples” and overlaying parkour bars about Grunge, success, and social justice. From the first cut, “Nebuchadnezzar,” which New York’s Major Stage describes as a “powerful chant-like hypnotic loop,” these 10 tracks capture an elusive mood of too many hours inside watching YouTube and trying to piece together fractured connections. The album’s title is derived from an Aramaic spell: “Let this thing be destroyed.” On the second LP, Suede invites 13 guests to “destroy” the original songs. This disc of remixes and reworkings showcases underground voices from across the Northwest (Seattle’s Wolftone, Khrist Koopa, Portland’s Fines Double), from across America (New Jersey’s Fatboi Sharif, California’s mudwater, Ohio’s Lord Olo, New York’s Bloodblixing), and around the world (Tel Aviv’s Argov and Japan’s Wazasnics). Seattle rappers Astral Trap, Blake Anthony, Mika’il, and Greg Cypher are featured on a bonus “posse” cut. With “Avada Kedavra Deluxe,” AJ Suede has tapped into the moment, using what Deeply Rooted Hip-Hop calls “a subconscious steeped in the mystical.” As Kexp says: “Quite predictably, the whole album bangs.”

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Ajate

Dala Toni

22,79 €* 23,99 € -5%

LP | 2024 | JP | Original (Universal Music Japan)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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● Tokyo based band and Afrobayashi pioneers Ajate are back with their third album: experience the explosive encounter of Afro groove and Japanese traditional Ohayashi music!

During a stay in West Africa in the late 2000’s, Japanese musician Junichiro "John" Imaeda was taken aback by the similarities he felt between the Afrobeat that resonated in the streets of Accra, and the sounds of the "Ohayashi”, the music played during ancestral Japanese festivals, in which John had participated since his childhood.

On his return to the archipelago in 2009, Imaeda created Ajate, a collective of ten passionate musicians. Together they started crafting music that moves from one world to another, with intertwined roots. The drums, flutes and bells are joined by curious instruments handmade by John himself with the essential material of the Japanese countryside: bamboo. The “Jaate”, an amplified xylophone-balafon equipped with piezoelectric sensors on each of its keys, or the “Piechiku”, a bamboo version of the Malian “Ngoni” or the Gnawa “Guembri”, equipped with shamisen strings and connected to an arsenal of guitar pedals, give Ajate an absolutely unique sound. Powerful and catchy Japanese female and male vocals bring the final touch to an incredible groove where Afrobeat and Ohayashi music are woven together so seamlessly that Ajate has managed to capture a truly distinct fusion. The band sings about the power of human connections, the force of being and living all together, the joy of sharing, and the beauty of life. Ajate’s music is a magnificent example of the way sounds are able to migrate in contemporary music.

The band’s explosive live performances have taken Ajate to the most prestigious stages in Japan, such as the Sukiyaki Meets The World and Fuji & Sun festivals. The release on French label 180g of their “Abrada” and “Alo” albums, in 2017 and 2020 respectively, opened the doors to Europe, with memorable shows at the Transmusicales de Rennes festival - followed by a session on KEXP (Seattle, USA) - at Jazz a Vienne, and at WOMAD UK, among many others. With their brand new album “Dala Toni”, Ajate prove once again that they are at the forefront of global music "made in Japan".

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Akai Ko-En

Mouretsuritomitsuku

44,99 €*

Release: 2024 / JP – Original

Genre: Pop

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OST Mega Man Battle Network Volume 2 Colored Vinyl Edition

Akari Kaida

2LP | 2023 | US | Original (Ship To Shore)

31,99 €*

12" | 2022 | EU | Original (Makesense)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Soundtracks

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Ship to Shore PhonoCo. is proud to present the original Game Boy Advance soundtrack to CAPCOM’s Mega Man Battle Network 2, available on vinyl for the very first time!
Following the success of Mega Man Battle Network earlier in 2001, this much beloved sequel hit Japanese GBAs just in time for Christmas (with North America & Europe getting their copies in 2002). Upgrading the game mechanics improved playability immensely but it was Yoshino Aoki’s score which cemented the experience into the joy centres of players’ brains over twenty years ago.

Yoshino Aoki (Breath of Fire III & IV) was no stranger to the Mega Man franchise, having already worked on Mega Man X3 as an arranger for its CD release and performing as a vocalist on the Mega Man Battle & Chase score, but for Mega Man Battle Network 2 she was given full composer duties. Her ability to set the perfect mood with catchy, melodic tunes caused many a player’s battery to run low from them backtracking certain sections just to listen to the music again!

Now newly remastered and available on an exclusive limited edition vinyl variant, featuring original artwork from the CAPCOM archives, this is bound to sell out fast and is not a title that should be missed!

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Akeyamasou

Seed

12,99 €*

Yashiro Aki To Suteki Na Shinshi No Ongakukai

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Makesense Records is very excited to presents Sou Akeyama ’s first 12’’ release. Machinedrum and Monomachine skilled composer, Sou explores romanticism within hard-break-core and glitchy music. In the manner of a Japanese countryside landscape merging modernism into nature, Sou is giving birth to a Four-Tracker exploring tonality and speeds, organic and electric. Substractive Percussion Synthesis at it’s finest fighting for existence with FM pads thru a genuine compressor chain. From the center of earth to the very edge of it’s canopy highest leaves, Seed grows under your feet: break beats patterns progressivly transforming Chaos into Life. You’ll feel the rhythm running into your veins. Blood Pressure Monitor drops as n14 big basses and laidback and impulsive broken beats will drive you into the fog. Frenetic yet so warm, scattered rhythms stabbed by aerial pads: a colored thunder from inside the cloud. Contrasted fog dissipates and i2 lands you back safely, ending the journey with a downtempo yet futuristic and excited trip-hop narrative.

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Aki Yashiro

2LP | 2024 | JP | Original (Nippon Columbia)

47,99 €*

2LP | 2023 | JP | Original (Universal Music Japan)

Release: 2024 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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First-time Analog Release. Recorded during her first jazz live performance, " Yashiro Aki to Suteki na Shinshi no Ongakukai （Aki Yashiro and the Wonderful Gentlemen's Concert） ~live IN QUEST~," released in 1998, captures Aki Yashiro's debut in the jazz world. Featuring performances by legends of the Japanese jazz scene such as Eiji Kitamura (Clarinet), Yuzuru Sera (Piano), George Otsuka (Drums), and Takashi Mizuhashi (Bass), Yashiro elegantly swings through jazz standards and her iconic songs like "Funauta," "Ame no Bojo," and "Ai no Shuchakueki." This album marks the beginning of "Yashiro Jazz." Luxurious A-Style Double Jacket Edition

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Akihiko Matsumoto

OST Odoru Daisoussen

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Soundtracks

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LP | 1992 | JP | Reissue (Sony Music Japan)

Akiko Yano

Super Folk Song

61,99 €*

Release: 1992 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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LP | 1981 | EU | Reissue (Wewantsounds)

Akiko Yano

Tadaima

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Wewantsounds)

Release: 1981 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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2022 repress; LP version. Obi strip; Includes two-page insert. Wewantsounds present a reissue of Akiko Yano's Tadaima., originally released in 1981. The first release Wewantsounds' ambitious program to release Akiko Yano's albums outside of Japan Tadaima. ("I'm home" in Japanese) is Yano's fifth studio album and a synth-pop masterpiece, co-produced by her then husband Ryuichi Sakamoto and featuring all the musicians from Yellow Magic Orchestra (Haruomi Hosono, Yukihiro Takahashi, and Sakamoto), the group she was touring with at the time. Japan's best kept secret, Akiko Yano is one of the most ground-breaking artists to come out of the '70s Japanese music scene along with Haruomi Hosono and Ryuichi Sakamoto. A piano child prodigy, Yano started her solo recording career in 1976 at just 21, recording her debut album Japanese Girl with no less than Little Feat as the backing band. This album created a stir on the Japanese scene and Yano was on the map. She went on to record a series of superb albums mixing funk, electro, and city pop featuring the cream of Japanese (and sometimes American and English) musicians; The fact she was producing, writing and composing herself made her a true maverick in a very male-dominated industry. These albums, incredibly, have never been released outside of Japan to this day. Tadaima. is Yano's first attempt to leave the acoustic piano aside and delve into the synth sounds of the early '80s. The result is a fascinating electro pop masterpiece showcasing her talent as a writer, musician, and singer, creating her own unique universe. Mixing Japanese and English lyrics, Yano crafts perfect pop songs such as "Tadaima.", "I Sing", "Harusaki Kobeni" (which became one of her most famous songs after its use in a Japanese cosmetics ad), while "Taiyo No Onara" is a suite composed of nine short stories written by children. Contributors on Tadaima. also include Shigesato Itoi, one of Japan's most famous copywriters (for Studio Ghibli among others) who wrote two tracks on the album and his friend legendary illustrator Teruhiko Yumura -- aka King Terry -- who revolutionized underground manga in the '70s with his "heta-uma" (bad-good) style, as showcased on the album's striking artwork. Tadaima. is the perfect entry point to Akiko Yano's unique body or work. This reissue includes original artwork by cult illustrator King Terry and a new introduction by renowned DJ Joakim.

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Akiko Yano

To Ki Me Ki

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Wewantsounds is glad to continue its Akiko Yano reissue series with the release of the singer"s third studio album "To Ki Me Ki", recorded in New York and released in 1978 in Japan. It follows her cult "Iroha Ni Konpeitou" LP and keeps the similar blend of Japanese pop and New York funk found in the latter. "To Ki Me Ki" features such musicians as Rick Marotta, Will Lee and David Spinozza and also programmer Hideki Matsutake who would soon join the YMO with Akiko for their international 1979/1980 tour before she recorded her next studio album "Tadaima" that year, featuring the YMO musicians. "To Ki Me Ki" is reissued outside of Japan for the first time, remastered in Tokyo by revered engineer Mitsuo Koike and featuring original artwork by Tsutomu Murakami with 4 page colour insert and new liner notes by Paul Bowler.

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Akina Nakamori - Utahime Double Decade

2LP | 2009 | JP | Reissue (Universal Music Japan)

69,99 €*

Release: 2009 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2016 | JP | Reissue (Universal Music Japan)

Belie

Release: 2016 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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LP | 1986 | JP | Reissue (Warner Music Japan)

Best Clear Vinyl Edtion

Release: 1986 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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The debut single collection, featuring all 13 singles from "Slow Motion" to the 13th single "SOLITUDE," includes a total of 13 tracks. This best album was simultaneously released in three formats—LP, cassette tape, and CD—on April 1, 1986.

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Best Ii Clear Vinyl Edtion

LP | 1989 | JP | Reissue (Warner Music Japan)

Release: 1989 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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The second single collection features all 10 singles from the 14th single "desire - Jounetsu -" (winner of the 28th Japan Record Award) to the 22nd single "I Missed 'the Shock'" (including "Nonfiction Ecstasy" released as a single cassette). This best album was simultaneously released on December 24, 1988, in three formats—LP, cassette tape, and CD—each with a different cover photo pose.

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LP | 2017 | JP | Reissue (Universal Music Japan)

Cage

Release: 2017 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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Crimson Clear Vinyl Edtion

LP | 1986 | JP | Reissue (Warner Music Japan)

Release: 1986 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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The 10th original album, "CRIMSON," includes the famous songs "Eki" and "OH NO, OH YES!" This luxurious album was completed with five songs each provided by two female musicians, Mariya Takeuchi and Akiko Kobayashi.

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LP | 2007 | JP | Reissue (Universal Music Japan)

Enka

Release: 2007 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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Folk Song 2 - Utahime Aishouka

LP | 2009 | JP | Reissue (Universal Music Japan)

Release: 2009 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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Folk Song - Utahime Jyojyouka

LP | 2008 | JP | Reissue (Universal Music Japan)

Release: 2008 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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Mood Kayou - Utahime Shouwa Meikyokushuu

LP | 2009 | JP | Reissue (Universal Music Japan)

Release: 2009 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2003 | JP | Reissue (Universal Music Japan)

Utahime 3 - Shuumaku

Release: 2003 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Utahime 4 -My Eggs Benedict

2LP | 2015 | JP | Reissue (Universal Music Japan)

69,99 €*

Release: 2015 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2016 | JP | Reissue (Universal Music Japan)

Vampire

Release: 2016 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2002 | JP | Reissue (Universal Music Japan)

Zero Album- Utahime 2

Release: 2002 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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LP | 1978 | EU | Reissue (Tokuma)

Akio Niitsu

I/O(I･O)

36,99 €*

What's Going On / Sadly Normal Record Store Day 2021 Edition

Release: 1978 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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(Japanese pressing, Official reissue) Brilliant synth prog weirdness from the late 1970s Tokyo. Recorded by the guitarist Akio Niitsu who was compared, not without reason, to Manuel Göttsching. Niitsu has a fairly small discography of only three full-length albums, but his second one - “Pet Step” - was on Tomita’s label and supposedly with the involvement of Haruomi Hosono (this is according to Chee Shimizu who lists it in his “Obscure Music”).

Akio Niitsu's first album, "i/o(i･o)" released in 1978, was produced in a homemade studio that had been converted from a storeroom in his home, and he spent three years doing everything from composition to engineering by himself, using overdubbed guitar recordings. 's first analog re-release has been decided.As a guitar multi-recording album, the idea was realized six years earlier than the album "e2-e4" released in 1984 by Manuel Göttsching, the central figure of "Ash La Tempel", but it was too early. A hidden experimental/ambient gem!The paradoxical sound that makes you feel as if you are lost deep in a labyrinthine forest, combined with Tadanori Yokoo's artwork, is a piece that allows you to enjoy Akio Niitsu's worldview with your ears and eyes.

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Akira Emoto

7" | 2021 | JP

37,99 €*

OST Godzilla Vs. King Ghidorah

Release: 2021 / JP

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Record Store Day Japan 2021 Drop 2 release. From the original album “What’s happening!” Released by actor Akira Emoto in 1987, the highly acclaimed cover work “What’s Going On” (original: Marvin Gaye). Two single cuts of the original song “Sadly Ordinary”. A variety of arrangements by singer Akira Emoto and Makoto Saito are the best couplings to listen to.

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Akira Ifukube

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Death Waltz Recording Co.)

35,99 €*