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Vinyl with a couple of light scuffs, close to VG+. Japanese pressing without OBI, but with insert.

Japanese pressing. Without OBI

Japanese pressing. Tear at opening

Japanese pressing without OBI, with insert

Japanese pressing with OBI!

Original japanese pressing with obi.

Japanese pressing without OBI!

Original japanese pressing

1969 reissue. Japanese pressing. Slight storage wear. OBI is missing.

Japanese pressing with obi.
Stickers on cover.

Original japanese pressing with obi and insert.

Japanese pressing with OBI and insert

Japanese pressing with obi.

Japanese pressing with obi

Japanese pressing with obi. Slightest foxing on obi and cover.

Japanese pressing without OBI!

Japanese pressing with OBI!

Japanese pressing without OBI!

Japanese pressing with insert and OBI

Japanese pressing without OBI!

Japanese pressing without OBI, with insert.

Original japanese pressing.
Sleeve with OBI and insert.

Original japanese pressing with obi.
Writing on front cover.

Japanese pressing without OBI, with insert.

Japanese pressing.

seam split. Japanese pressing. OBI is missing.

Japanese pressing. Few paper scuffs. Without OBI.

Japanese pressing

Japanese pressing without OBI, but with insert. Vinyl close to NM and cover to VG+

Japanese pressing with obi.

Japanese pressing with OBI!

Japanese pressing. close to NM. OBI is missing. With insert

Japanese pressing without OBI!

Japanese pressing with Obi.

Japanese pressing. OBI is missing.

Japanese pressing. Vinyl is Close to VG+. With insert

Japanese pressing with obi.

Japanese pressing with OBI and insert

Japanese pressing, no Obi.

Japanese pressing with OBI!

Japanese pressing without OBI. Cover with stains. Vinyl with a couple of light scuffs

Japanese pressing. Cover is close to VG+!

Japanese pressing with obi.

Japanese pressing with obi.

Japanese pressing. OBI is missing.

Limited Blue And Green Splatter Vinyl.

Japanese pressing with OBI and insert.

Japanese pressing with OBI and insert!

Japanese pressing with OBI and insert. Vinyl with a couple of light scuffs

Japanese pressing. OBI is missing. close to NM

Japanese pressing without OBI, with insert. Cover close to VG+

Japanese pressing without OBI, with insert. Promo copy with white labels

Japanese pressing with obi.

Japanese pressing without OBI, with insert. Vinyl close to NM

Shunsuke Kikuchi is one of the best-known composers of background music for Japanese television and film soundtracks. Born in 1931 in Hirosaki, located in the far north of the main Japanese island of Honshu, Kikuchi enjoyed a long and illustrious career that began in the early 1960s, having presided over dozens of popular soundtracks into the new millennium, including those for the Dragon Ball series as well as various Gamera monster films. A graduate of the Nihon University College of Fine Arts and Music, Kikuchi is largely associated with anime and effects-laden tokusatsu films, along with action dramas, and jidaigeki period films. Whether crafting up-tempo action themes or slow background pieces for long-running television series, establishing the reputation that any television show featuring his music was bound to hit. One of his songs, “Urami Bushi,” from the Female Convict Scorpion series, ended up in the soundtrack of Kill Bill. He is the recipient of various awards, including a lifetime achievement award, granted in 2015 at the Japan Record Awards. The Hurricane Polymar series of action anime was initiated in 1974, the plot concerning a crime fighter with a special suit that allows him to change shape while wearing it. This soundtrack album is drawn from the original 1974 TV series, with all manner of tense music for fight scenes, heroic fanfares saluting our here and other semi-electronic incidental interludes, highlighting the irresistible allure of Kikuchi’s atmospheric compositions

Futuristic synthesizer specialist and sound designer Matsuo Ohno was responsible for the sound design of a broad range of film, television and radio soundtracks, most famously the animation series Astro Boy, which he began working on in 1963, together with his assistant, Takehisa Kosugi. Ohno was born in the heavily-populated Kanda district of central Tokyo in 1930 and was heavily affected by the repeated bombing raids on the city enacted in World War II, which took place during his formative years. After the War, deeply motivated by philosophy and Surrealism, he was largely unaffected by popular music, other than the
electronic abstractions of Karlheinz Stockhausen; the left-wing filmmaker Fumio Kamei was another early influence. Ohno began immersing himself in the realm of sound effects while working with the Bungaku-za modernist theatre troupe and he performed a similar function at NHK, Japan’s national broadcasting corporation, but became so frustrated by the rigidity of the restrictions imposed on him there that he quit his prestigious post at the broadcaster, although his skills were such that he remained in high demand as a freelancer, which allowed
him to refine his sound effects techniques with evolving analogue synthesizers. The five suites of tracks that make up the album Roots Of Electronic Sound album were recorded between 1963 and 1966; initially released on the ALM label in 1975, it is comprised of brief
tape experiments, the cover artwork fittingly representing Astro Boy, from which many of the audio interludes are taken.

Japanese pressing with OBI!

Japanese pressing. taped spine

Japanese pressing without OBI!

Japanese pressing with OBI and insert. Copy close to VG+

Japanese pressing without OBI, with insert. Cover with light wear

Limited to 200 copies.

Originally issued in 2011, Ashcan Copy is the third instalment in Rashomon's Film Music series of LPs. Cineploit Records is proud to present this re-release, and to introduce the record to a wider audience than the 150 lucky souls who snagged a copy of the ultra-limited initial release on Hlava Records.
Active since 2009, Rashomon is the solo project of Matt Thompson, also of Cineploit mainstays Zoltan. This is his second release on the label under the Rashomon name, following 2014's LP/DVD extravaganza The Cameraman's Revenge: Film Music Vol. 4 – the final release in the Film Music series to date.
The previous edition to this, 2009's The Finishing Line: Film Music Vol. 2, had focused on re-creating the psychological mind-state of the wilder end of 1970s British public information films. By way of change Ashcan Copy is presented as an album of soundtrack cues from films that were, for one reason or another, never released. The films, hailing from Italy, Japan and the USA (among others) supposedly date from the 1950s to the 1970s, and were (according to the extensive sleeve notes) exactingly sourced from film archives across Europe.
In reality, all the music is self-composed. The eight tracks include elements of noise, folk, psychedelia, prog and noir-jazz within their elaborate constructions, created with a panoply of instrumentation including Mellotron, zither, home-made percussion, Fender Rhodes, harmonium, MiniMoog and more. Delicate and sensuous, heavy and oppressive – the record negotiates these musical contradictions while retaining a single-minded pursuit of strangeness and surprise.
Having finally found its spiritual home on soundtrack specialist label Cineploit, Ashcan Copy can at last be heard by all.

Japanese pressing with OBI!

Japanese industrial/synth-duo Group A partner with choreographer/performer Dana Gingras, Montréal artist Sonya Stefan & Finnish lighting designer Mikko Hynninen for athe multimedia project. Performance, installation of televisions, sound, light and image converging to create an exhilarating event placing a living, breathing and transmuting body at the heart of the experience.

An unholy grail of near mythical status finally joins the Finders Keepers Records discography in the form of this first-ever reissue of Masahiko Sato’s elusive sensual psychedelic free jazz score to the stunning Japanese witchcraft animation Belladonna Of Sadness (Kanashimi no Belladonna) directed by anime screenwriter Eiichi Yamamoto in 1973. asn early feature-length example of a micro-genre in which Japanese anime producers collaborated with the “pink” film genre.

Limited to 300 copies.

Originally issued in 2011, Ashcan Copy is the third instalment in Rashomon's Film Music series of LPs. Cineploit Records is proud to present this re-release, and to introduce the record to a wider audience than the 150 lucky souls who snagged a copy of the ultra-limited initial release on Hlava Records.
Active since 2009, Rashomon is the solo project of Matt Thompson, also of Cineploit mainstays Zoltan. This is his second release on the label under the Rashomon name, following 2014's LP/DVD extravaganza The Cameraman's Revenge: Film Music Vol. 4 – the final release in the Film Music series to date.
The previous edition to this, 2009's The Finishing Line: Film Music Vol. 2, had focused on re-creating the psychological mind-state of the wilder end of 1970s British public information films. By way of change Ashcan Copy is presented as an album of soundtrack cues from films that were, for one reason or another, never released. The films, hailing from Italy, Japan and the USA (among others) supposedly date from the 1950s to the 1970s, and were (according to the extensive sleeve notes) exactingly sourced from film archives across Europe.
In reality, all the music is self-composed. The eight tracks include elements of noise, folk, psychedelia, prog and noir-jazz within their elaborate constructions, created with a panoply of instrumentation including Mellotron, zither, home-made percussion, Fender Rhodes, harmonium, MiniMoog and more. Delicate and sensuous, heavy and oppressive – the record negotiates these musical contradictions while retaining a single-minded pursuit of strangeness and surprise.
Having finally found its spiritual home on soundtrack specialist label Cineploit, Ashcan Copy can at last be heard by all.

Japanese pressing with OBI and insert. Cover with light wear.