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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Morr Music)

Release: 1984 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Pop

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: VG+

Original japanese pressing with OBI and insert.

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Tenniscoats

Tan-Tan Therapy

23,99 €*

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Morr Music)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Just over a decade ago, Japanese indie-pop duo Tenniscoats recorded »Papa's Ear« (2012) and »Tan-Tan Therapy« (2007), two albums made with musical and production help from Swedish post-rock/folk trio Tape. Originally released on Häpna, they are beautiful documents of the exploratory music made by a close-knit collective of musicians, fully at ease with each other, playing songs written by Tenniscoats and arranging them in gentle and generous ways. Released during a prolific phase of collaboration for Tenniscoats – during the late ‘00s and early ‘10s, they would also collaborate with Jad Fair, The Pastels, Secai and Pastacas – they have, however, never been available on vinyl. In collaboration with Alien Transistor, Morr Music is now reissuing these albums with bonus material.

Filled with graceful pop songs, autumnal folk tunes, and gentle yet risk-taking improvisations, »Tan-Tan Therapy« was the first Tenniscoats album to be released in Europe, after a run of albums on Japanese labels, and the excellent »Live Wanderus« (2005) on Australian imprint Chapter Music. It was also the first recorded evidence of their collaboration with the three members of Tape and that group’s extended musical family. It opens with one of Tenniscoats’ signature songs, the pop fantasia of »Baibaba Bimba«, with Tenniscoats singer Saya repeating a light-headed incantation over joyous brass. The essence of Tenniscoats is contained in »Baibaba Bimba«: uplifting melody and playful musicianship, tinged with distant echoes of winsome melancholy.

From there, »Tan-Tan Therapy« explores many hues of lustrous blue. »Oetu to kanki no Namoriuta (Given Song of Sob and Joy)« is an aquatic arbour, the musicians’ gentle performances growing together like vines and seaweed as Saya’s voice swims through the waterway. »Umbarepa!« is full of play and pleasure, sparkling with glockenspiel as snare drum tattoos push the song ever-forward. »Abi and Travel« floats past, a lovely instrumental built from shifting layers of synthesizer and pianet; »Good B.«, an extra track originally only available on the Japanese edition of »Tan-Tan Therapy«, is added to this reissue, and follows a similar thread, its humming pump and Hammond organs swirling under beautiful vocals from Saya and guest performer Kazumi Nikaido.

Throughout, you can sense the deep empathy the members of Tenniscoats and Tape have for one another. It’s a conversational, tender and, at times, fragile music that can only be created out of mutual trust and kindness, with each of the players contributing to the community of sound they’re building. There’s an element here, too, of feeling out the possibilities of what this creative meeting can achieve, something reflected in the loose-limbs sprawl of »Marui Hifo (Everyone)«, which echoes the seaside drift of Bristol post-rock group Crescent, and the following »One Swan Swim«, a dreamsong redolent of the sleepy sensorium of Robert Wyatt’s »Rock Bottom«.

The freedom and liberty at the heart of Tenniscoats is something Tape and their friends have picked up on, beautifully so, and run with during the entirety of »Tan-Tan Therapy«. This is music with its wings outstretched, wanting to take to the air, ready to fly.

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Tenniscoats

Papa's Ear

31,99 €*

LP Box | 2020 | EU | Original (Alien Transistor)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Just over a decade ago, Japanese indie-pop duo Tenniscoats recorded »Papa's Ear« (2012) and »Tan-Tan Therapy« (2007), two albums made with musical and production help from Swedish post-rock/folk trio Tape. Originally released on Häpna, they are beautiful documents of the exploratory music made by a close-knit collective of musicians, fully at ease with each other, playing songs written by Tenniscoats and arranging them in gentle and generous ways. Released during a particularly productive time for Tenniscoats – during the late ‘00s and early ‘10s, they would also collaborate with Jad Fair, The Pastels, Secai and Pastacas – they have, however, never been available on vinyl. In collaboration with Alien Transistor, Morr Music is now reissuing these albums both digitally and on double vinyl, with extra tracks.

This reissue mini-series starts with »Papa’s Ear«. The second album from this expanded line-up of Tenniscoats, you can hear the musicians are immediately comfortable in each other’s presence, and they’ve almost intuitively understood what they can offer to one another. Saya and Ueno of Tenniscoats bring their magical, gentle folk-pop sensibility, and their winning way with straightforward, yet lush melodies. Johan Berthling, along with fellow Tape member Tomas Hallonsten, plus guests Fredrik Ljungkvist, Lars Skoglund, Andreas Söderstrom and Andreas Werlin, all generous and creative presences in the Swedish jazz underground, shades in the songs with endlessly inventive arrangements, highlighting the warmth and curiosity at the core of the Tenniscoats’ aesthetic – sometimes taking the songs in unexpected directions, other times pillowing the melodies with the softest of brushstrokes and the kindest of tones.

»Papa’s Ear« includes some of Tenniscoats’ most memorable songs. »Papaya« is a lustrous dreamland of a song, with the Swedish musicians singing ‘pa-pa-ya’ as an enchanted tattoo, while Saya’s piano and melodica clank and huff out, further expanding the song’s horizon. It’s followed by the spindly and mysterious »Sappolondon«, where drums and double-bass shuffle and pulse under weeping accordion and bittersweet clarinet. Saya’s voice sighs into the frame while the musicians breathe lungfuls of sweet drones and flick glittering countermelodies across the song’s surface. It reminds a little of the wild kindness of Movietone, or the regal charm of Carla Bley’s compositions.

Elsewhere, you can hear Tape and their friends embracing the freedom offered by the songs of Tenniscoats: see, for example, the glistening electronics in »På floden«, like a keyboard conducting a music box on a distant planet; or the descending phrase for winds on »Sabaku«, dovetailing beautifully into a creek of moon-lit texturology. The double-LP ends with two extra tracks, drawn from the 2008 Tenniscoats/Tape split single, also released by Häpna., »Lutie Lutie« is a sweet delight, driven by a clacking drum machine, the Tenniscoats duo joined by Hallonsten on glockenspiel and synthesizer, and special guest, Japanese indie-pop legend Kazumi Nikaido, as choir. »Come Maddalena« rounds off the set, a brooding cover of an Ennio Morricone tune, the music by Tape, the vocals by Tenniscoats and Nikaido. Open-hearted and full of puckish spirit, »Papa’s Ear« is an album of great tenderness and warm friendship.

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Tenniscoats

Music Exists Disc 5

31,99 €*

LP | 1972 | UK | Original (DJM)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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5LP Box Set: Complete Box-Set with all 5 "Music Exists" LPs + Poster, screen-printed random color artwork.
Now finally, the great "Music Exist"-series by Tokyo-based duo the Tenniscoats is completed. Apart from the regular 4 volumes, there is a heavy cardboard box, beautifully screenprinted and hand-numbered by senorburns, in 12 different color-combinations. Inside you'll find an extra-LP of bonus-tracks and alternative versions, "Music Exists disc 5", which only comes exclusively with this box. Like on the other LPs, you’ll hear heartbreaking songs, beautifully arranged with acoustic guitar, melodica, psychedelic keyboards and soundexperiments. Also included is a A3-Poster with a drawing by Ueno not used within the previous album-artworks.

Limited one-time pressing of only 500 copies worldwide. There is a small amount of full boxes with all 5 LPs and Poster available, for those, who don‘t have any of the albums so far.

Tenniscoats have devoted followers allover the world, but their releases were always hard to find outside of Japan. Except for their album "Tokinouta", which saw a very limited run on vinyl, and the seminal "Two Sunsets", their collaboration with the Pastels (and a small handfull of 7"s), there were never any vinyl-releases, and also the CDs were hard to get for any-one, who doesn't speak or read japanese.

So, this is the chance to dive deep into the beautiful, unique world of the Tenniscoats and their opus magnum "music exists".

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Telly Savalas

This Is Telly Savalas...

17,99 €*

Hagata Seafoam Blue Vinyl Edition

Release: 1972 / UK – Original

Genre: Pop

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: VG+

Japanese pressing with OBI!

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Teke::Teke

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Kill Rock Stars)

30,99 €*

LP | JP | Original (Teichiku)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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From the tender-hearted “Jinzou Maria” to the rumbling and raucous “Yurei Zanmai”, the songs of Hagata bear an eerie yet somehow familiar sensation. Japanese pop tones, Serge Gainsbourg grandeur, folk whisper, and Brazilian surf rock all mix into the psychedelic stew. Blending past and present, from Canada to Japan, multiple lives lived at once, each track carries a sense of change, impact, of having been marked in an intimate way. And yet the force behind that marking is always just out of grasp, a wisp, a ghost, an energy, a spirit that compels you to keep reaching.

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Teichiku Orchestra

歌おう！ヒット歌謡カラオケ決定盤 17

27,99 €*

Release: JP – Original

Genre: Pop

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG+

Japanese pressing without OBI, but with insert.

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The Noble Art Of Teddy Wilson

LP | 1976 | JP | Original (Metronome)

9,99 €*

Release: 1976 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

Japanese pressing. With OBI.

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LP | 1976 | JP | Reissue (Mercury)

My Ideal

Release: 1976 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

Japanese pressing. 1976 reissue. With OBI.

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Mr. Wilson (The Fabulous Teddy Wilson At The Piano)

26,99 €*

Release: 1973 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint

Japanese pressing, comes with Obi and inserts.

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Mr. Wilson (The Fabulous Teddy Wilson At The Piano)

Release: 1973 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG

Japanese pressing, no Obi.

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Mr. Wilson (The Fabulous Teddy Wilson At The Piano)

17,99 €*

Release: 1973 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

Japanese pressing, no Obi.

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Mr. Wilson (The Fabulous Teddy Wilson At The Piano)

18,99 €*

Release: 1973 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

Japanese pressing with Obi.

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LP | 1960 | JP | Reissue (CBS/Sony)

And Then They Wrote

2LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Nervous)

Release: 1960 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: VG+

Japanese pressing. 1979 reissue.

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Teddy Douglas

I’m Here

28,99 €*

LP | JP | Reissue (Coral)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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US House Music legend Teddy Douglas of Basement Boys and Jasper St. Co. fame gets set to unleash his first solo artist album, ‘I’m Here’, on the iconic label, Nervous Records. Teddy has gone all out to deliver one of his most creative and musically diverse albums to date. ‘I’m Here’ is a colourful pallet of meaningful songs and grooves that reach far beyond Teddy’s signature soulful Baltimore House sound, with added infusions of Funk, Rock and Jazz, yet still loaded with plenty of Teddy’s trademark House and Disco sounds that we all know and love.

Across the album he’s pulled together an array of heavyweight international vocal talent including; UK vocal diva Pauline Taylor; Danish award winning Folk and Blues artist, Richard Farrell; Chi Town Hip House legend, Fast Eddie; dance music’s legendary No.1 vocal queen, Ultra Naté; up and coming Brit Soul talent, Sipho; and Buckshot from Blackmoon appearing as BDI Thug. From the shimmering cover of The Frontline Orchestra’s ‘Don’t Turn Your Back On Me’ with Pauline Taylor on the vocals, to the downtempo rocky vibes of ‘Help!’ with Sipho delivering a spine-tingling gravelly vocal, ‘I’m Here’ is testament to Teddy’s finely tuned expert musicianship and impeccable knack for penning great songs and delivering vibrant covers.

Baltimore’s Teddy Douglas has produced everyone from Michael Jackson, Lenny Kravitz, Crystal Waters, Erykah Badu, Martha Wash and Ultra Nate’ and was an important figure in the development of the Baltimore “House” Sound. Teddy has held down a long and successful DJ career since 1983 staring out in Baltimore and spreading his wings globally gracing the decks at clubs such as Yellow in Japan to London’s Ministry of Sound and beyond. In 1985 he met Jay Steinhour and Thommy Davis, who later formed The Basement Boys production company. The Basement Boys have produced countless dance classics like Crystal Waters’ 1991 Gold single, ‘Gypsy Woman’. In the mid 90’s Teddy Douglas and Jay Steinhour opened Basement Boys Records and released club anthems from Teddy Douglas, Jasper St. Co., Ann Nesby, Those Guys, DJ Spen, Byron Stingly, Karizma, Kenny Bobien, Taja Seville and more

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Teddi King

All The King's Songs

16,99 €*

LP | 1976 | JP | Original (Epic)

Release: JP – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: VG

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

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Ted Nugent

Free-For-All

LP | 1978 | EU | Reissue (P-Vine)

Release: 1976 / JP – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

Japanese pressing without OBI!

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Ted Coleman Band

Taking Care Of Business

31,99 €*

Release: 1978 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Conjuring up flashes of the masterly mellow tones heard in Roy Ayers and Billy Wooten’s local jazz funk, P-VINE’s Rare Groove will revisit New Jersey, a series favourite location, for a joyous and unassuming record of vibraphone grooves and smooth Jazz. Taking Care of Business was originally released in 1980 and marked the debut for Ted Coleman, a musician whose craft extended beyond the box and took the reins of not only its production work, but also the fetching typography design on the cover jacket. In fact, Coleman’s careful architecture oversees all aspects of this release, and whether it’s his soothing voice breathing life into his graciously composed lyrics or skillful musings on his percussive instrument of choice, it’s a record built with the richest materials that has stood the test of time. Includes a Japanese obi strip.

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TN-4D-SE

499,00 €*

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New motor, developed exclusively for direct-drive turntables

The TN-4D-SE uses a sleek, brushless DC motor, offering crystal-locked speed accuracy, regulated by a computer-controlled feedback circuit and achieving low wow-and-flutter levels for a direct drive turntable, especially one with such a stylish, low-profile design.

Knife-edge, pivot-point tonearm bearings

In collaboration with SAEC Corporation, a world-famous, high-end tonearm manufacturer, the TN-4D's tonearm employs a knife-edge, pivot-point bearing. Unlike the case for tonearms with conventional bearings, any fine vertical movements encountered by this tonearm actually help in delivering a more dynamic sound with excellent resolution. The S-shaped tonearm also employs a universal headshell fitting, allowing users to quickly and easily swap cartridges/headshells, and supports a wide range of cartridge weights (from 14 - 23g).

Precision anti-skating and stylus-pressure adjustment

As you might expect, the tonearm is equipped with a counterweight, for precise stylus-pressure adjustment, and an anti-skating mechanism.

Pre-installed Oyster cartridge by SUMIKO

The TN-4D-SE comes with a well-regarded Oyster MM cartridge from SUMIKO – a legendary American cartridge manufacturer. Regardless of the type of music, the Oyster cartridge delivers a powerful but insightful performance.

Built-in PHONO EQ amplifier supporting MM cartridges

The TN-4D-SE comes with a built-in PHONO EQ amplifier that allows you to directly connect the turntable to the line-level inputs of your existing hi-fi system. The NJM8080 IC from New Japan Radio Corporation is employed for op-amp duties, bringing up the level of the tiny signals received via the cartridge up to LINE level strength without any loss of quality.

Die-cast aluminium platter

In conjunction with the newly-developed motor, the high inertia, die-cast aluminium platter helps to achieve better speed stability.

Insulating feet with excellent shock absorption

The insulating feet comprise a machined aluminium shell topped with a rubber cushion that is fixed to the high-density MDF plinth. Thanks to their excellent shock absorption characteristics the TN-4D-SE is very resistant to acoustic feedback.

2-speed turntable for 33-⅓ and 45 rpm

The TN-4D-SE supports 33-⅓ and 45 rpm for LP and EP records. Our insistence on quality engineering can even be seen in the construction of the rotary control for start-up/speed selection, formed of machined aluminium.

Features at a glance:
• Direct-drive analog turntable
• Crystal-locked speed stability, thanks to a new brushless DC motor with feedback control
• Die-cast aluminium platter
• Knife-edge, pivot-point tonearm base, designed by high-end tonearm manufacturer SAEC
• Multi-layer piano black or natural walnut veneer finish
• Built-in PHONO EQ amplifier for high-quality sound (PHONO/LINE switchable)
• Audiophile-grade NJM8080 op-amp used in PHONO EQ stage
• 2-speed drive offering 33-⅓ and 45 rpm
• Gold-plated oxidation-resistant output connectors
• Oyster MM cartridge by SUMIKO
• Shock-absorbing insulating feet
• GND terminal
• RoHS compliant
• Included Accessories
• Felt Mat
• EP Adapter
• Counter Weight
• Head-shell (SUMIKO Oyster installed)
• Platter
• Dust Cover
• Hinges × 2
• RCA Audio cable with GND terminal
• AC Adapter (GPE036W-24015)
• Owner's Manual (including Warranty Card)

TURNTABLE FEATURES
• Type: Manual
• Drive method: Direct-drive
• Speed: 33 rpm, 45 rpm
• Wow & flutter: ≤ 0.1%
• Built-in preamp: Yes
• S/N ratio: 67dB
• Cartridge: SUMIKO Oyster
• Cartridge type: MM
• Cartridge output: 4.0mV (1kHz)
• Tracking force: 2.3g
• Cartridge weight: 5.3g
• Including headshell: 15.3g
• Rec. cartridge weight: 4-13g
• Rec. cartridge weight (incl. headshell): 14-23g

AUDIO OUTPUTS
• Output level & impedance phono (MM): 4.0mV (1kHz)
• RCA: 1
• Output level & impedance RCA: 224mV (–13dBV)

ENERGY MANAGEMENT
• Power consumption (standby): 0.5W
• Power consumption: 2W
• AC adapter power
- Input: AC 100 V – AC 240 V, 50/60 Hz
- Output: DC 24 V, 1500 mA

DIMENSIONS AND WEIGHT
• Product height: 11.7cm
• Product width: 42cm
• Product length: 35.6cm
• Product weight: 6.1kg
• Packsize height: 24cm
• Packsize width: 52.5cm
• Packsize length: 43.8cm

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TN-4D-SE

499,00 €*

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TN-280BT

349,00 €*

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2-speed Analog Turntable with Phono EQ and Bluetooth
A wireless turntable for new way of enjoying vinyl records

The TN-280BT is not only a great-sounding turntable for music enthusiastic who wants to enjoy vinyl record from closet or re-issues. It brings you a totally new way of listening to vinyl records with its Bluetooth capability. No extra cost for hi-fi components or complicated wiring is required. Only Bluetooth speakers or headphones you might have for iPhones are required to enjoy the world of vinyl records

The TN-280BT also accommodates a built-in Phono EQ amplifier that provides Line output, and allows you to connect to almost any sound system regardless type of inputs.

The belt-drive motor on the TN-280BT reduces vibration for sweeter, more accurate sound than direct-drive turntables for DJ, while an aluminum die-cast platter and anti-skating system provide a solid foundation for great-sounding playback. The high-performance, upgradable MM cartridge captures every detail on your record, and the static-balanced straight tone-arm ensures clear sound. It’s all housed in a handsome case in black or walnut veneer.

For music enthusiasts who want to hear every sensuous note of their vinyl collection.

Main Features

2-speed Belt-drive turntable
Built-in Bluetooth transmitter
Built-in MM phono equalizer and Phono, Line, and Bluetooth outputs
High-performance MM cartridge included (Made in Japan)
Aluminum die-cast platter
Anti-skating mechanism
High-density MDF cabinet for better vibration and resonance

Specifications
TURNTABLE section
Type Belt Drive
Motor DC Motor
Rotation Speeds 33-1/3, 45 rpm
Deviation of Speed +/-2%
Wow-and-Flutters 0.2%
Signal-to-Noise Ratio more than 67 dB (A-weighted)
60 dB (unweighted, 20kHz, LPF)
Turntable (Platter)
Material Aluminum Die-cast
Diameter 30 cm
Tone-arm section
Type Straight, Static-balanced
Effective Length 223 mm
Stylus Pressure Range 0 to 5 g
Compatible Cartridge 3.5 to 6.5 g
Anti-skating Adjustment Supported
Head-shell and Cartridge sections
Type MM-type
Stylus Shape Elliptical
Mount Half inch
Frequency Response 20Hz to 20kHz
Channel Separation 20dB at 1kHz
Channel Balance 2.0dB
Tracking Force 1.5 to 2.5g
Vertical Tracking Angle 20 degrees
Output Impedance 47k ohms
Output Voltage 4.5 mV (+/-3dB)
Stylus Pressure 2.0 g (+/-0.5 g)
Cartridge Weight 5.7 g (+/- 0.5 g)
Head-shell Weight 10 g (including nuts, screws, and wires)
Analog Output section
Connectors RCA Pin Jack x 1 pair (Chrome-plated)
Output Voltage
PHONO 4.5 mV (+/-3dB)
LINE 120 mV (-13dBV)
Bluetooth section
Range Approx. 10m
Supported Codec SBC

General
Operation Power AC Adapter
Input AC 100-240V, 50/60Hz
Output DC 12V 500mA
Power Consumption 1.5 Watts or less
Standby Power 0.5 Watts or less
Dimensions (W x H x D) 420 × 117× 356 mm / 16.5” x 4.6” x 14.0”
Weight (Net) 4.9 kg / 10.8 lbs.
Operating Temperature +5˚C to +35˚C
Included Accessories
Felt Mat x 1
EP Adapter x 1
Counter Weight x 1
Head-shell x 1 (MM-type cartridge installed)
Turntable (Platter) x 1
Dust Cover x 1
Dust Cover Hinges x 2
RCA Audio Cable x 1
AC Adapter (GPE053A-V120050-Z) x 1
Owner’s Manual (including Warranty Card)

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TN-280BT

331,55 €* 349,00 € -5%

LP | 1974 | JP | Original (Capitol)

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Tavares

Hard Core Poetry

9,99 €*

LP | 1980 | JP | Reissue (Rca/Air)

Release: 1974 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG

Japanese promo copy!

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Tatsuro Yamashita

Ride On Time

57,99 €*

Christmas Eve 40th Anniversary Edition

Release: 1980 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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Originally released in 1980 Limited edition 180g vinyl Pressed on black vinyl Ride on Time is the fifth studio album by Japanese singer-songwriter Tatsuro Yamashita, released by Air/rvc in 1980. This record includes everything from up-tempo songs to ballads, making it an absolute masterpiece beloved by many.

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Tatsuro Yamashita

12" | 2023 | JP | Original (Warner Music Japan)

38,99 €*

Add Some Music To Your Day

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Pop, Christmas

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To celebrate Christmas Eve’s 40th years anniversary, originally released in 1984, it will be released on 12-inch analog record. On side B, the different version of White Christmas will be recorded.

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Tatsuro Yamashita

LP | 1972 | JP | Reissue (NBC Universal Entertainment Japan Inc.)

92,99 €*

Release: 1972 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tatsuo Hayashi

Super Percussion Vol.1

LP | 2022 (Crown)

45,99 €*

7" | JP | Original (Universal Music Japan)

Release: 2022

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A highly coveted record! A reissue of instructional records by talented studio musicians!

Super Percussion Vol.1 is the only solo album released by Tatsuo Hayashi, who played drums for Tin Pan Alley and Caramel Mama.

This album, which has historically been famous as a drum break album by Japanese DJs, has an A-side that extracts only the rhythm section from drums to percussion, and a B-side that features a fusion instrumental mix of performances by Masaki Matsubara and Tsuyoshi Kon.

The tight disco track, 'sucha Roca' and the light mellow fusion funk track, 'hi-g', as well as the iconic beat collection on the record's A side, are recommended for track makers everywhere.

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Tatsumi Fujinami

Maccho Dragon

35,99 €*

Release: JP – Original

Genre: Soundtracks

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I Dipped My Comb In Shochu And Ran It Through The Hair Of The Night

番長 Taste

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Carbon)

39,99 €*

12" | 2023 | EU | Original (Explore)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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I dipped my comb in shochu and ran it through the hair of the night is the brand new release from the intriguing trio 番長 Taste, consisting of Mark Anderson (Greymouth/Mysteries of Love, New Zealand), Anthony Guerra (Love Chants/Mysteries of Love, Australia) and mysterious rocker ‘Mariyo’ (Japan). The name 番長 is pronounced ‘Bancho’, so the band name is Bancho Aji/Taste. This release consists of 12 tracks, 6 tracks from the Carbon CD release Summer Nights, 2 tracks from the I Dischi Del Barone 7”, and 4 Brand NEW Unreleased tracks! This is raw no-wave, free-noise awesomeness. Like if DNA did a surf record, and so perfectly crude, it makes Smashchords sound like Emerson Lake & Palmer in comparison.

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Tasoko

Sundance

Poly-Time Soundscapes / Forest Of The Shrine

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Japan import. darkish sounding electro and techno. Efdemin Remix! only few copies.

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Taro Nohara

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (WRWTFWW)

24,99 €*

OST Fatal Fury - The Definitive Soundtrack

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Wrwtfww Records is so happy to announce Poly-Time Soundscapes / Forest Of The Shrine, a brand new release by Japanese producer Taro Nohara (Yakenohara). 8 tracks of pure environmental ambient bliss available on LP housed in a heavy 350gsm sleeve with an artwork from the artist himself. Based in Tokyo, Taro Nohara is a producer, beatmaker, DJ, and music activist who made a mark with his electronic / ambient unit Unknown Me ( (of Not Not Fun Records fame). His new solo project, Poly-Time Soundscapes / Forest Of The Shrine, is a unique and modern take on Japanese environmental music, a free floating re-interpretation of the sub-genre made famous by Midori Takada, Hiroshi Yoshimura, or Satoshi Ashikawa (and more!) fused with subtle nuances of various origins: downtempo, hip hop, sound design, chill-out, experimental. Conceived as a two-part adventure of contemplative peace, Taro Nohara’s organic soundscape takes you on a mind-soothing walk through time (or memories) and the beautiful mysteries of luscious forests - don’t resist, let yourself go, explore!

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Tarkun

CD | 2020 | EU | Original (Brave Wave)

16,99 €*

LP | 1978 | JP | Original (MCA)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Soundtracks

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SNK and Brave Wave continue their exciting partnership to bring classic Neogeo soundtracks to CD & Vinyl !

SNK, Brave Wave Productions and Limited Run Games are proud to reveal their fifth collaboration, Generation Series 012: Fatal Fury for both CD and vinyl. Known as Garou Densetsu (餓狼伝説) in Japan and originally released for Neogeo in 1991, Fatal Fury is one of SNK’s earliest, but also most popular 2D fighting games. The soundtrack, composed by Tarkun (Toshikazu Tanaka), features catchy and exciting tunes for each character in the iconic SNK fighters lineup.

This release marks the first time the soundtrack of Fatal Fury will be made available on vinyl. As with all Generation Series and other Brave Wave releases, this release will be remastered specially for vinyl, CD and digital (via a free download code included with the vinyl edition) and restored to the highest possible quality. The rest of the package will include our usual offerings, including high-resolution artwork and liner notes contained in a full-color booklet.

As a special bonus, Side B of the vinyl (the final track on the CD) will contain the track The Hero Raiden -rof Arrange ver.-, which was originally featured in the 2015 mobile title The Rhythm of Fighters. The bonus track, an arrangement of the original song from Fatal Fury, was composed by Tarkun.

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Tanya Tucker

TNT

LP | 1976 | JP | Original (MCA)

Release: 1978 / JP – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG

Japanese pressing, no Obi.

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Tanya Tucker

Lovin' And Learnin'

7,99 €*

Ramble In The Rainbow Green Vinyl Repress Edition

Release: 1976 / JP – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Pop

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG

Japanese pressing with Obi.

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Tamtam

12" | 2024 | US | Original (Peoples Potential Unlimited)

21,84 €* 22,99 € -5%

LP | 1987 | JP | Reissue (Universal Music Japan)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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A four-piece band based in Tokyo.

Initially playing reggae/dub music, the band gradually developed into an innovative fusion of diverse musical influences, such as jazz, soul, psyche pop, new age, and exotica. A sound is based on groove and euphoria, with nostalgic melodies.

They have performed at iconic events in Japan such as Fuji Rock Festival, and also have been looking overseas since they performed in Canada(Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver) in 2019. The new EP "Ramble In The Rainbow"(2024) is their first international release on the US label Peoples Potential Unlimited.

The work shows their musical maturity, drawing inspiration from Sun Ra, Lee "Scratch" Perry, and Yasuaki Shimizu.

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Tamlyn Tomita

Sweet Surprise

36,99 €*

Release: 1987 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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LP | 1970 | JP | Original (Columbia)

Tamiko Jones

In Muscle Shoals

Urlo EP Marcel Dettmann Interpretations

Release: 1970 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

Japanese pressing. OBI is missing. close to NM

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Tamburi Neri

2x12" | 2021 | EU | Original (Danza Tribale)

16,99 €*

LP | JP | Original (Philips)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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4 Marcel Dettmann Remixes. Adiel's Danza Tribale is set to unleash its ninth release by Tamburi Neri with a double EP featuring four original tracks and four remixes by Berlin techno staple and Berghain resident Marcel Dettmann. Tamburi Neri is comprised of Claudio Brioschi and Andrea Barbieri who previously released together on Optimo Music and Ivan Smagghe's Les Disques De La Mort + a recent album on Worst Records, the latter in collaboration with Japanese vocalist Hiroko.

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Tamba Trio

29,99 €*

Tamao Yen Years Selection

Release: JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

Japanese pressing with OBI and insert!

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Tamao Koike

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

53,99 €*

12" | 2024 | EU | Original (Vibes And Pepper)

Release: 2024 / JP – Original

Genre: Pop

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Singer Tamao Koike is known for her song "Kagami No Naka No Juugatsu" which is a masterpiece representing the YMO sounds. This vinyl is a collection of 11 songs selected from the CD "TAMAO - Complete Yen Years". Pressed on clear pink vinyl.

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Takuya Matsumoto

Drawer Tracks EP

LP | 2014 | UK | Reissue (First Word)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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After a hiatus of 10 years, Vibes And Pepper Records makes its comeback with a revitalized appearance featuring a fresh new logo. Despite the break, the label remains committed to maintaining the high standard of house music that characterized its back catalog, with releases from esteemed artists such as Terrence Parker & Claude Young Jr, Synchrojack, Jeremiah, Norm Talley... In its relaunch, the label demonstrates unwavering confidence by unveiling 5 previously unreleased tracks by Japanese producer Takuya Matsumoto. Don't be misled; akin to his earlier releases on Jake for Daze, Matsumoto once more presents a collection crafted to emulate the essence of the mid-90s era in each skillfully curated track.

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Takuya Kuroda

Rising Son

36,99 €*

12" | 2023 | JP | Original (Infodump)

Release: 2014 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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First Word Records is incredibly proud to bring you an exclusive vinyl-only re-issue of Takuya Kuroda's highly-sought after album 'Rising Son'.

'Rising Son' was first released on the seminal Blue Note Records imprint 10 years ago in 2014, with Takuya being the first Japanese artist to sign to the label. The record received widespread critical acclaim, hitting No.1 on Japan's jazz charts at the time, with original copies now fetching hundreds of pounds on Discogs and the like. There has long been high demand for a re-press of this album, and we're very pleased to say it's finally here, a decade on.

The re-issue is to be released via London-based Worldwide Award-winning label First Word Records, who coincidentally celebrate their 20th year running in 2024. First Word released Takuya's highly-revered previous two albums, 'Fly Moon Die Soon' (2020) and 'Midnight Crisp' (2022).

For those that don't know, Takuya Kuroda is a Kobe-born, Brooklyn-based trumpeter and musician, who was also a longtime player for Akoya Afrobeat as well as DJ Premier's Badder band. Initially playing on the Japanese circuit with his trombonist brother, Takuya went on to relocate to New York City, where he has largely remained to this day, becoming a prominent player in the jazz scene there.

The original album featured several Roy Ayers covers, including the all-time classic 'Everybody Loves The Sunshine', and this 2024 pressing also includes a brand new remix of the track from keys player & producer, Joe Armon-Jones. Joe is hugely-acclaimed in his own right as a solo artist, as well as his recent collaborations with Mala (who has a track named after him on this very project, as Takuya was influenced heavily by his 2012 Brownswood album 'Mala in Cuba'), and as an integral member of the legendary Ezra Collective, winners of the 2023 Mercury Music Prize in the UK.

Flitting between the genres of jazz fusion, soul, r&b, hip hop and afrobeat, the album was predominantly produced by a previous Takuya collaborator, vocalist José James, while also featuring phenomenal accompaniment from Nate Smith (drums), Solomon Dorsey (bass), Corey King (trombone) and Kris Bowers (keys).

In the words of José James, "no one sounds like Takuya. His tone, warmth and most of all his storytelling have inspired me for years. His writing is soulful, modern, and effortlessly bridges the gap between jazz and soul, and between history and tomorrow."

Previous reviews and accolades for Takuya's third album 'Rising Son' include AllMusic's Best of 2014, NPR Music, Jazz Weekly, Leo Weekly, All About Jazz, Icon, Relix, Pop Matters, Jay Z's Life + Times, Wbgo, Upscale, The Revivalist, East Bay Express and The Jazz Line, to name just a few.

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Takuro Hasumi

Fafrotskies Volume 1

LP | 2021 | UK | Original (Constructive)

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Nice first EP by japanese producer Testa! Including a remix by OOFT!

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Takuma Watanabe

Last Afternoon

16,79 €* 23,99 € -30%

Tape | 2024 | EU | Original (P-Vine)

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The second release on Constructive (sister label of SN Variations) is Last Afternoon by Japanese composer Takuma Watanabe. Having studied at Berklee College in America, he is now living in Japan where he composes for film using his own string ensemble. This is Watanabe's first full length artist album.
He also created the animation music videos for the two tracks Tactile and Last Afternoon creating a unique imaginary visual counterpoint to the music.
Last Afternoon features collaborations with American vocalist and composer Joan La Barbara known for her recorded works with John Cage, Morton Feldman, Robert Ashley and composer and software developer Akira Rabelais known for his collaborations with Bjork and David Sylvian. The album is mastered by Jim O'Rourke. Cover photo courtesy of Swedish photographer and cinematographer Anders EdstrÃ¶m.

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Takuma Matsunaga

Epoch

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (P-Vine)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Takuma Matsunaga, a musician based in Tokyo, grew up exposed to a wide variety of music, from classical and black music to ambient and electronic music, and began his professional career in 2021. His latest album, "Epoch," produced by Miru Shinoda, also known as a member of Japanese band "yahyel", took about a year and a half to create and is now being released by P-vine in physical format for the first time. The sounds on the album were recorded through real-time manipulation using both analog and digital synthesizers, resulting in a unique and pure work that blends ambient and electronic music with elements of hip-hop.

The Greek origin of the word "epoch," "epokhe," means "to suspend judgment, to hold on (epi) and to have (ekhein)." "Epoch" seeks to suspend ecstasy and intoxication within the everyday. It is both ordinary and extraordinary, real and dreamlike, or perhaps neither. "Epoch" embodies all of these states, suspended, reflecting the acoustic journey of Takuma Matsunaga as he navigates through them.

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Takuma Matsunaga

Epoch

37,99 €*

Takesi Inomata & Sound Limited

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Innocent Canon HHV Exclusive White Vinyl Edition

LP | 1971 | EU | Reissue (Cinedelic Orient Series)

28,99 €*

Takesi Inomata & Sound Limited

Release: 1971 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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HHV Exclusive edition on white wax, limited to 80 copies worldwide.

Original masters licensed by King Records Japan. Includes OBI and insert. 'Innocent Canon' is one of the hopelessly obscure Japanese underground albums that few people know about. It is a kind of unreleased delirious groovadelic soundtrack played by an acid-soaked Japanese big band with powerful drumming, heavy jazz fumes and delirious organ/guitar lines and luminary narration.Inomata was a well-known jazz musician at the time, but like many of his contemporaries, he went off the deep end with psychedelic music between 1970-1972. Upon the release of the record in 1970 there was a great debate among Japanese journalists who tried to catalog a genre to the record. The attempt was in vain. They couldn't figure out what it was. Rock? Jazz? They had to accept that you couldn't always label everything. Takesi Inomata & Sound Limited produce music that has nothing to do with stereotypical genres; they play to bring to life an expression of modern sensibility. The title of the album, "Innocent Canon," is particularly intriguing to analyze in relation to this concept of the fluidity of music. The same can be said of Kano Tenmei, a talented photographer and DJ, who participated in the sessions with the role of a narrator who improvises aloud, and it doesn't matter if you don't understand everything he says; what matters is being able to fit into this complex emotional quest. Sound Limited consists of 10 members, but this number varies often; Inomata always leaves the door open to anyone who wants to join the band founded on a very loose philosophy. The recording process took only 24 hours. Inomata eventually declared, "we managed to create something exciting and interesting (in such a short time)." The album opens with an acidic "Introduction," played with organ, guitar, bass and drums. It is followed by "Funeral," a flute-dominated track over an organ carpet; it is dedicated to Janis Joplin. In a triumph of brass riffs, guitar, sax and drums solos, Kano Tenmei screams "No, No..." in "Rebellion"; a psychedelic funk shake over 7 minutes long. "Toy" is reminiscent of samba, with prominent horns and an electric piano solo. "Melancholy" follows a sick guitar riff over a cha-cha rhythm, with piccolo, sax and organ solos. This is followed by the long "Lonesome" introduced by sitar. The beginning and end of the song are breathtaking, as is the schizophrenic middle section. Closing is the short "Return," a folk ballad with acoustic guitar, whistles, piano and recorders. It is fair to say that this improvisational session produced outstanding results. The artwork is original features some very strange erotic sketches.

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Innocent Canon Black Vinyl Edition

LP | 1971 | EU | Reissue (Cinedelic Orient Series)

28,99 €*

Nippon Guitars: Instrumental Surf, Eleki & Tsugaru Rock 1966-1974

Release: 1971 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Original masters licensed by King Records Japan. Includes OBI and insert. 'Innocent Canon' is one of the hopelessly obscure Japanese underground albums that few people know about. It is a kind of unreleased delirious groovadelic soundtrack played by an acid-soaked Japanese big band with powerful drumming, heavy jazz fumes and delirious organ/guitar lines and luminary narration.Inomata was a well-known jazz musician at the time, but like many of his contemporaries, he went off the deep end with psychedelic music between 1970-1972. Upon the release of the record in 1970 there was a great debate among Japanese journalists who tried to catalog a genre to the record. The attempt was in vain. They couldn't figure out what it was. Rock? Jazz? They had to accept that you couldn't always label everything. Takesi Inomata & Sound Limited produce music that has nothing to do with stereotypical genres; they play to bring to life an expression of modern sensibility. The title of the album, "Innocent Canon," is particularly intriguing to analyze in relation to this concept of the fluidity of music. The same can be said of Kano Tenmei, a talented photographer and DJ, who participated in the sessions with the role of a narrator who improvises aloud, and it doesn't matter if you don't understand everything he says; what matters is being able to fit into this complex emotional quest. Sound Limited consists of 10 members, but this number varies often; Inomata always leaves the door open to anyone who wants to join the band founded on a very loose philosophy. The recording process took only 24 hours. Inomata eventually declared, "we managed to create something exciting and interesting (in such a short time)." The album opens with an acidic "Introduction," played with organ, guitar, bass and drums. It is followed by "Funeral," a flute-dominated track over an organ carpet; it is dedicated to Janis Joplin. In a triumph of brass riffs, guitar, sax and drums solos, Kano Tenmei screams "No, No..." in "Rebellion"; a psychedelic funk shake over 7 minutes long. "Toy" is reminiscent of samba, with prominent horns and an electric piano solo. "Melancholy" follows a sick guitar riff over a cha-cha rhythm, with piccolo, sax and organ solos. This is followed by the long "Lonesome" introduced by sitar. The beginning and end of the song are breathtaking, as is the schizophrenic middle section. Closing is the short "Return," a folk ballad with acoustic guitar, whistles, piano and recorders. It is fair to say that this improvisational session produced outstanding results. The artwork is original features some very strange erotic sketches.

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Takeshi Terauchi

LP | 2011 | UK | Original (Big Beat)

18,99 €*

LP | 2024 | JP | Original (Eight Islands)

Release: 2011 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The first ever retrospective in the west of one of Japan's guitar pioneers, Takeshi Terauchi. Charting his career from the surf boom, to groovy 60s instrumentals, fuzz freak-outs and funk rock.

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Takeshi Ohbayashi

The Big News

40,99 €*

Takeshi Nakatsuka & Videobrother

Release: 2024 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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THE BIG News is back! The analog release of Takeshi Obayashi's TBN Trio will be released prior to their tour! After becoming the first Japanese winner of the "Jacksonville Jazz Piano Competition" in the U.S., Takeshi Ohbayashi has been active beyond the boundaries of country and genre, collaborating with Jose James and Takuya Kuroda. And a winner of Grammy Award with the Pat Metheny Unity Band, Ben Williams is a talented bassist who has performed with Robert Glasper, Kamasi Washington, and Sadao Watanabe. Nate Smith is a drummer who has written songs for Michael Jackson and performed with everyone from Paul Simon to Norah Jones, and is a two-time Grammy nominee for his project "kinfolk". This is a rare moment when three of the music scene's frontrunners come together. The uplifting soulful and heart-fluttering grooves, cultivated through their travels around the world together, will make you feel the joy of living in the modern age.

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Heavy Rotation / Me Wo Tojite Oideyo With Emi

7" | 2024 | JP | Original (Unchantable)

18,99 €*

12" | 2024 | EU | Original (Alley Version)

Release: 2024 / JP – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Reggae & Dancehall

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Takeshi Nakatsuka’s collaboration cover project has been generating buzz with each release. For this third installment, he teams up once again with videobrother—who were a hit with their covers of Tokio and "Hashire Shoujikimono"—to bring a fresh, modern club twist to classic Showa and Heisei-era songs. Side A features a cover of AKB48's "Heavy Rotation," capturing the original's upbeat energy with a unique and fiery twist that only Nakatsuka and videobrother could pull off. On Side B, they transform Barbee Boys’ "Me wo Tojite Oide yo" into a groovy boogaloo tune! EMI’s soulful vocals perfectly complement Nakatsuka’s emotional delivery, making for an unforgettable rendition. This is another must-have 7-inch vinyl for Japanese groove and rock fans alike!

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Takeshi Kouzuki

Electric Language EP

Takeshi Inomata / Sound Limited

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Takeshi Kouzuki is back on Alley Version with this superb four-tracker EP. House music at its best, starting from the basics laid out by Chi-masters like Larry Heard, Marshall Jefferson, liquefied in the typical mesmeric touch of this Japanese legend.

Limited to 150 copies.

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Sounds Of Sound L.T.D. Clear Vinyl Edition

LP | 1970 | JP | Reissue (Columbia Japan)

39,99 €*

Takeshi Inomata & Sound Limited

Release: 1970 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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"Japanese jazz and Jazz Rock masterpieces are re-released on clear vinyl!

The raging drums scorch the times. Accompanied by a whirlwind of young talents, Takeshi Inomata proudly heralds the arrival of the golden age of jazz-rock.
Takeshi Inomata, a drummer who led the jazz scene in Japan with his precise stick work and musicality that looked ahead to the times. At the end of the 1960s, he was influenced by brass rock, which was flourishing at the time, and formed Sound Limited.
""I want to fuse jazz and rock and bring together young musicians to do music with vitality, and I want this group to be a large-scale group that does not fit into the small framework of modern jazz,"" he says.
His first album and masterpiece was ""Sounds of Sound L.T.D.""(1970). Led by ""Theme ~ Moustache"", which is loved as a symbolic song, it is a masterpiece full of dynamism and enthusiasm throughout the film.
text by Yusuke Ogawa (UNIVERSOUNDS/DEEP JAZZ REALITY)"

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Sounds Of Sound L.T.D.

LP | 1970 | JP | Reissue (Nippon Columbia)

41,99 €*

Release: 1970 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Drummer who led the jazz scene in Japan with accurate stick work and musicality and an eye on the times, Takeshi Inomata's first album with Sound Limited formed at the end of the 60's. Starting with the theme song 'Mustache', which is beloved as one of the most iconic songs, it is a masterpiece full of dynamism and enthusiasm throughout.

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Smile Clear Sky Blue Vinyl Edition

LP | 1981 | JP | Reissue (Nippon Columbia)

54,99 €*

Release: 1981 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The famous song “Watarase,” full of Japanese flavor, is recorded for the first time on this album. Takeo Moriyama, a renowned jazz drummer, has been a prominent figure in the free jazz scene since the late 1960s, first with the Yosuke Yamashita Trio and more recently with the Kyoto Jazz Sextet. Moriyama's music has garnered a devoted following among both old and new fans. This album, recorded in 1980 with a quartet featuring his close friend Fumio Itabashi, is one of the most famous works in the history of Japanese jazz music. It features a large-scale performance in which stillness and movement are organically intertwined.

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LP | 1981 | JP | Reissue (Nippon Columbia)

Smile

43,99 €*

Release: 1981 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Takeo Moriyama, Japan's leading jazz drummer, loved by many new and old fans. Since the late 1960s, he has swept the free jazz world with the Yosuke Yamashita trio. After leaving the group, the radiating heat was condensed into an ensemble, evolving and deepening the musicality in a more melodic and rhythmic direction. And that activity will reach a peak in this work 'Smile'.

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2LP | 2023 | UK | Original (BBE Music)

Live At Lovely

44,99 €*

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Japanese master drummer Takeo Moriyama returns to BBE Music’s J Jazz Masterclass Series in a majestic live set showcasing his exemplary musicianship and stature as one of the leading names in Japanese modern jazz.

Recorded in December 1990 at the jazz club Lovely in Nagoya, this set sees Moriyama’s quartet deliver an exemplary session of the finest modal, post-bop and spiritual jazz.

Moriyama is backed by long-time colleague Fumio Itabashi on piano and the group perform a stunning rendition of Itabashi’s classic ‘Watarase’, revisiting the track they first recorded on Moriyama’s 1981 ‘Smile’ album. Demonstrating his range as a composer, Itabashi penned four of the five tracks on this album. ‘Live at Lovely’ also features regular bassist Hideaki Mochizuki and tenor saxophonist Toshihiko Inoue, who also feature on Moriyama’s ‘East Plants’ album, previously reissued in the J Jazz Masterclass Series.

The quartet’s communication and interplay are revelatory, each player listening closely and finding their own space within the richly textured music. The album opens with ‘Sunrise’, a blast of blistering unrestrained post-bop, with Toshihiko Inoue’s strident horn motif and Itabashi’s commanding piano underpinned by Hideaki Mochizuki’s thunderous bass and Moriyama’s relentlessly authoritative and expressive drumming.

On ‘Exchange’, another Itabashi composition, the quartet up the energy level even further, pushing to the edge of free jazz but maintaining enough structure to keep it together as they race headlong into a 20 minute epic that leaves the listener as out of breath as the band. Every track on ‘Live at Lovely’ stands by themselves, but taken together, it’s an extraordinary listening experience that demonstrates the calibre of the Japanese jazz players who emerged in the 1970s and who, like Moriyama and Itabashi, continue to perform today.

This special double vinyl edition is mastered by the Grammy-nominated Carvery and is the first ever reissue since the album’s original Japan only CD release in 1991 and comes with a translation of the original notes plus a new sleeve note by Tony Higgins.

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2LP | 1983 | EU | Reissue (BBE Music)

East Plants

42,99 €*

Takehisa Kosugi & Akio Suzuki

Release: 1983 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Originally released in 1983 on the Japanese VAP
label, ‘East Plants’ is an essential album in the J
Jazz canon. It’s an album that distils several key
characteristics of Moriyama’s music: clearly
articulated and inventive rhythms, open yet orderly
arrangements, and an accessible groove balanced
with a graceful control.
‘East Plants’ features no piano, just percussion,
bass and reeds. From the luxurious raga-like build
of the album’s hypnotic title track and the fierce
post-bop workout of ‘Fields’, to the stately modal
track ‘Kaze’ ( as featured on the sell-out BBE
compilation, ‘J Jazz: Deep Modern Jazz From Japan
1968-1984’), the album was, until now, a rarely
acknowledged masterpiece. ‘East Plants’ shows
Moriyama’s quintet at their most transcendent:
delicate layers of percussion by Yoji Sadanari, a
warm and pliant bass from Hideki Mochizuki, with
colour and texture provided by the eloquent reed
work of Shuichi Enomoto and Toshiko Inoue. And,
overseeing it all, Moriyama’s discreet yet
commanding drumming.
The BBE J Jazz Masterclass Series is curated by
Tony Higgins and Mike Peden and is dedicated to
presenting the very finest in Japanese jazz. The
series will feature rare, long-lost and unreleased
material presented in the highest quality
reproductions of the original releases, fully licensed
and authorised.

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New Sense Of Hearing

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Blank Forms Editions)

26,59 €* 27,99 € -5%

Deep Soundscapes The Remixes

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Available from Blank Forms for the first time since its original 1980 release on ALM-Uranoia, NewSense of Hearing documents a collaboration between Takehisa Kosugi and Akio Suzuki, twoluminaries of Japanese experimental music in the lineage of Fluxus. Blank Forms's high-qualityreissue of the sought-after, long out of print LP, is produced by musician-artist Aki Onda andmastered from the original tapes recorded on April 2, 1979, at Tokyo's Aeolian Hall.Described by Suzuki as the "culmination" of their sound,New Sense of Hearing features the twomusicians improvising together in that empty Tokyo theater, Kosugi on vocals, violin, and radiotransmitter and Suzuki on the Analapos, his namesake glass harmonica, spring cong, andkikkokikiriki, all apparatuses of his own invention.Suzuki and Kosugi first met at the city's Minami Gallery in 1976 on the occasion of "Sound Objectsand Sound Tools," an exhibition of Suzuki's homemade instruments. Two years later, at the Festivald'Automne in Paris, Suzuki invited Kosugi to join him for a suite of performances as part of theexhibition "MA: Espace - Temps au Japon," organized by architect Arata Isozaki andcomposer-writer Toru Takemitsu. Suzuki and Kosugi performed together at the Musée des ArtsDécoratifs, Paris, nearly fifty times, honing their approach to mutual improvisation, before travelingwith the exhibition to Stockholm and New York_critic Tom Johnson wrote in the Village Voice thathe had "seldom seen two performers so completely tuned in on the same types of sounds, the sameperformance attitude, the same philosophy, the same sense of what music ought to be."For NewSense of Hearing, the duo reunited in Japan and produced an extraordinary dispatch from theircollaboration of arioso violin, echoing vocals and bangs, and metallic twangs. As Johnson observedin 1979, Kosugi and Suzuki are "in a very subtle artistic world where there can be no directrelationships. . . . Only coincidence."Takehisa Kosugi (1938-2018) was a composer, ar...

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Takecha

12" | 2018 | EU | Original (Love Potion)

10,99 €*

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Studio Mule)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Mike Huckaby, Bergqvist, DJ Sports, Raam and LNS remix ‘Deep Soundscapes’, Takecha’s album recently released on Sweden’s Love Potion. Released in March, the album incorporates Takeshi Fukushima’s work between 1990 to 2013 and affirms why the producer is such a respected figure within Japan’s electronic music scene. Now his compositions have been remixed by some of house music’s best, featuring renditions from Detroit’s Mike Huckaby, Aniara’s Henrik Bergqvist, the elusive Raam, Firecracker and Regelbau’s DJ Sports, as well as Wania and Freakout Cult’s LNS

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Takayuki Shiraishi

Missing Link

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

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Japanese living legend electronic producer Takayuki Shiraishi; this is a collection of his unreleased materials in late 80’s. He has started the career as his unit “BGM” on most reevaluated japanese experimental label “Vanity Records”. one&only the album “Back Ground Music” have been one of the most demanded japanese new wave record. the album is unique mixture of dark new wave, post punk,kraut rock and experimental electronic music. the first reissue of “BGM/Back Ground Music” is coming this autumn.

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Takayuki Hattori

OST Fuji Tv Drama Hero

39,99 €*

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Soundtracks

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Takayanagi Masayuki New Direction For The Art

La Grima

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Aguirre)

25,99 €*

Takashi Nakazato Pres. "The Takashi Nakazato Set"

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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On vinyl for th efirst time. Famed free jazz concert registration of an early New Direction for the Art performance. Recorded in 1971. Old-style Gatefold LP, with rare photographs & extensive liner notes by Alan Cummings.

The performance by Takayanagi Masayuki New Direction for the Art at the Gen’yasai festival on August 14, 1971 was an intense, bruising collision between the radical, anti-establishment politics of the period in Japan and the febrile avant-garde music that had begun to emerge a few years before. The ferocious performance that you can hear here was received with outright hostility by the audience, who responded first with catcalls and later with showers of debris that were hurled at the performers. Takayanagi though described the group’s performance to jazz magazine Swing Journal as a success, “an authentic and realistic depiction of the situation”.

In 1962, Takayanagi, bassist Kanai Hideto and painter Kageyama Isamu went on to form an AACM-style musicians’ collective called the New Century Music Research Institute. Every Friday, members gathered at Gin-Paris, a chanson bar in the fashionable Ginza district of Tokyo, to push the outer limits of jazz creativity.

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Secret Society EP

12" | 2023 | EU | Original (Ten Lovers Music)

Takashi Masubuchi, Ayami Suzuki, Tomo

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Percussionist Takashi Nakazato is well known for his work with Jazztronik and Kyoto Jazz Massive and is now back on Ten Lovers Music with a stunning new Japanese Latin Jazz EP. The Takashi Nakazato Set are the following musicians featuring over the four tracks; Willy Calderon (Timbales), Yu Hagiwara (Alto Sax/Soprano Sax), Kei Ishi (Baby Bass), Miwa Kashima (Rhodes/Piano), Ryo Kawasaki (Electric Bass/Double Bass), Takahiro Miyazaki (Tenor Sax), Oli Savill (Congas), Ayumi Suzuki (Vibraphone/Marimba), Mitsuru Tanaka (Trumpet), Hayato Yamazaki (Drums) and of course Takashi Nakazato himself (Batá Drums, Cheqere, Cowbell, Claves, Wind Chime, Chaworó, Congas, Bongo, Catá, Iyá, Vibra Slap, Cymbal). The EP was mixed by Eiji Hirano at Studio Happiness in Japan and mastered by Jose Rico in Madrid, Spain. All four tracks are quality pieces of music in their own right and we were more than happy to commit this to vinyl.

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Suikyo

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (An'archives)

37,99 €*

Digital Soundology #1 Volk Von Bauhaus

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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»Suikyō« documents a first-time meeting between three Japanese improvisers: Takashi Masubuchi (guitar & harmonica(, Ayami Suzuki (voice & electronics), and Tomo (hurdy-gurdy.) It’s a stunning, forty-minute long improvisation of rare artistic sympathy. Notably, it was the first time the trio had performed together, though Masubuchi and Suzuki have prior form as a duo; on the evening itself, the trio performance was preceded by solo sets from Suzuki and Tomo, which served as a kind of introduction, of sorts, to the broader aesthetic visions of two of the musicians on »Suikyō«.

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Takashi Kokubo

LP | 1985 | EU | Reissue (Glossy Mistakes)

23,74 €* 24,99 € -5%

Takashi Kokubo & Andrea Esperti

Release: 1985 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Ambient and environmental Japanese scene has flourished stronger than ever in the last years. The pioneers of this sound and the creators of an innovative way of making and understanding ambient music, such as Hiroshi Yoshimura, Yoshio Ojima, Toshifumi Hinata or Takashi Kokubo have been championed and their works have been successfully unearthed by reissue labels. Continuing in this endless path, Glossy Mistakes adds Takashi Kokubo’s brilliant “Volk Von Bauhaus” to its catalogue, with the Japanese masterpiece as the third official release of the Spanish label. As most of 80’s Japanese ambient and environmental music, “Volk Von Bauhaus” is an audio impression designed to give a multi-sensory experience to the listener. An effort to make things audible, an exercise of understanding and soundtracking objects or situations. The main objective of this sound is to create an iconic musical landscape to accompany a specific place. Though his name might be unfamiliar to many, Kokubo has crafted music that has impacted virtually all of Japan, from national mobile phone earthquake alerts to contactless card payment jingles. He was one of the first artists to create ambient music strictly through loops. As he mentioned when release this album, "this recording used no keyboard players, no multitrack tape recording techniques, no analog sounds”. A shift on the process of imagining sound. “Volk Von Haus” is and ode to this ambient, new age and environmental music created in Japan throughout the 80’s. Throughout 9 cuts, Kokubo handcrafts his own sound and immerses the listener in a peaceful yet challenging adventure. The record is the first piece of his Digital Soundology series, and arguably his most interesting work due to the groundbreaking techniques he used.

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Music For A Cosmic Garden

2LP | 2023 | Original (WRWTFWW)

33,99 €*

Takao Tajima And Ryosuke Nagaoka

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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WRWTFWW Records is very excited to present a new full-length collaborative project by Japanese ambient/environmental legend Takashi Kokubo (Ion Series) and Italian/Swiss trombonist Andrea Esperti (Esperti Project): Music for a Cosmic Garden.

Recorded during the heights of the pandemic and completed in February 2021, the majestic 8-track ethereal/botanical soundscape created by Kokubo and Esperti is available as a limited edition double LP, a digipack CD, as well as in digital format.

Takashi KOKUBO, environmental music figure, celebrated sound designer, and founder of Studio Ion, has released over 20 albums, including the genre-defining and highly sought-after Ion Series. He's also played a major role in the sonic identity of Japan, creating the country’s mobile phone earthquake alert sound, credit card payment validation jingles, and much more. In 2020, Takashi Kokubo received a Grammy nomination for his track "A Dream Sails Out to Sea, Scene 3" off Light in the Attic’s Kankyo Ongaku compilation. He is known for recording “sound scenes from nature” around the world using a binaural CyberPhonic microphone of his own invention and for his very unique brand of healing music.

Andrea ESPERTI is a Swiss trombonist and composer originally from Puglia (Italy). He plays in multiple genres (classical, pop, world, electro, jazz) with a globe-trotting approach: encounters with peers, rhythmic exchanges, and unplanned music projects; this is where lies the foundation of his work.

Music for a Cosmic Garden is an ode to celestial botanics, a contemporary and hallucinogenic take on the soothing ambient genre immortalized by artists such as Midori Takada and Satoshi Ashikawa, a beautiful pairing of synthesizers and the mighty trombone, taking you to a meditative galaxy far, far away, where other-worldly is just another word for cozy.

Recommended track for maximum pleasure: "Gaia’s Love Theme".

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Sessions

2LP | 2023 | JP | Original (Victor Entertainment Japan)

50,99 €*

Takako & The Rude Pressures

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Pop

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Takao Tajima (Original Love) x Ryosuke Nagaoka (Petrols). “sessions” is a record of a special beautiful moment and space that captures the lightning-fast session released by the two artists on the “Futari Soul Show”, a stage only for the two of them.

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Heartache / You And Me

7" | 2024 | JP | Original (Scorcher)

Love Trip Sky Blue Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / JP – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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New single by Nagoya based SKA band THE Rude Pressures, who are set to perform at Fuji Rock Festival '24! The Rude Pressures, a Nagoya-based SKA band active since 1990, will release their first new single in four years, a collaborative single featuring Japan's proud Rock Steady singer Takako (The Drops /ex Dreamlets ). Takako's own bittersweet original tune and a cover of "You And Me" by Penny & The Quarters, an insert song from the movie "Blue Valentine" starring Ryan Gosling. The arrangement is a superb Lovers Rock Steady that makes the most of her unique style.

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Takako Mamiya

LP | 1982 | JP | Reissue (Universal Music Japan)

58,99 €*

12" | 2020 | EU | Original (KR3)

Release: 1982 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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Kazuo Shiina, Hiroyuki Namba, Yoshihiro Naruse, Akira Inoue and other skilled musicians participated in Takako Mamiya's only album released in 1982, a masterpiece representing 80's city pop, on clear sky blue vinyl. Limited re-release!

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Takaaki Itoh

Mutual Recognition

A Fancy Haircut Will Not Help You

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Curated by Japanese techno pioneer Takaaki Itoh with an additional remix by Claudio PRC. KR3 first EP is an intricate labyrinth of sounds, set to come out on both Vinyl and Digital format. Mutual Recognition – is a work of insistent raw elements that interweave with hypnotic segments, creating a sense of bewilderment.

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Takaaki Itoh

12" | 2013 | EU | Reissue (Planet Rhythm)

2LP | 2011 | EU | Reissue (Aguirre)

Release: 2013 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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2022 repress / comes in label sleeve. Japanese Techno strongholder Takaaki Itoh makes his Planet Rhythm debut. The Wols imprint owner comes in a with a bang and delivers some very on point dark and twisted techno. Firm and loaded with edgy sounds, just how techno's supposed to sound.Z39

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Taj Mahal Travellers

August 1974

27,99 €*

Reversible Ma-1 Type Inner Down Jacket

Release: 2011 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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High quality reissue of the monumental work August 1974 by Japanese experimental music ensemble Taj Mahal Travellers. Pressed on 180gr. vinyl with extensive liner notes by Julian Cowley. Remastered & Cut by Rashad Becker. In April 1972 a group of Japanese musicians set off from Rotterdam in a Volkswagen van. As they crossed Europe and then made their way through Asia they made music in a wide range of locations. They also paid close attention to the changing scene and to differing ways of life. Midway through May they reached their destination, the iconic Taj Mahal on the bank of the Yamuna river in Agra, India. The Taj Mahal Travellers had fulfilled physically the promise of the name they adopted when they formed in 1969. But their music had always been a journey, a sonic adventure designed to lead any listener’s imagination into unfamiliar territory.

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TAION x Beams

123,72 €* 274,95 € -55%

Reversible China Button Inner Down Jacket

Available Sizes: L

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Another fresh reversible apparel piece from Japan, co-designed by TAION x Beams!

TAION uses for its designs mainly down and feathers with high 800 fill power. This makes the products lighter compared to conventionally used down fillings. Compared to the usual 600FLP, TAION's 800FLP down filling can hold more insulating warm air, and thus it keeps you warmer.

After filling, the down of TAION jackets is divided into chambers by quilting seams. This closes the chambers tightly enough to prevent cold outside air from entering, and the structure makes it difficult for air heated due to body temperature to escape. In addition, this technique helps to keep the down fluffy along the stitch.

TAION x Beams Reversible MA-1 Type Inner Down Jacket - features:

• crew neck
• 2-way front zipper with interior storm flap
• 2 flap pockets with snap button closure at lower front of side 1, 2 self-fabric patch pockets at lower front of reverse
• patch pocket with zip closure and pen holder compartments on left sleeve
• stretch rib cuffs
• TAION x Beams Lights flag label at side seam
• regular fit
• shell: 100% nylon
• lining: 100% polyester
• insulation: 95% down, 5% feathers (800 fill power)

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TAION x Beams

89,97 €* 179,95 € -50%

Available Sizes: 2XL

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Another fresh reversible apparel piece from Japan, co-designed by TAION x Beams!

TAION uses for its designs mainly down and feathers with high 800 fill power. This makes the products lighter compared to conventionally used down fillings. Compared to the usual 600FLP, TAION's 800FLP down filling can hold more insulating warm air, and thus it keeps you warmer.

After filling, the down of TAION jackets is divided into chambers by quilting seams. This closes the chambers tightly enough to prevent cold outside air from entering, and the structure makes it difficult for air heated due to body temperature to escape. In addition, this technique helps to keep the down fluffy along the stitch.

TAION x Beams Reversible China Button Inner Down Jacket - features:

• crew neck
• hidden 2-way front zipper plus toggle fasteners at the storm flap
• 2 welt pockets at lower front of side 1, 2 zip pockets at lower front of side 2
• slim stretch cuffs
• TAION x Beams Lights flag label at side seam
• regular fit
• shell: 100% nylon
• lining: 100% polyester
• insulation: 95% down, 5% feathers (800 fill power)

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Reversible China Button Inner Down Vest

134,95 €*

Available Sizes: S, M, L, XL, 2XL

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Another fresh reversible apparel piece from Japan, co-designed by TAION! TAION uses for its designs mainly down and feathers with high 800 fill power. This makes the products lighter compared to conventionally used down fillings. Compared to the usual 600FLP, TAION's 800FLP down filling can hold more insulating warm air, and thus it keeps you warmer.

After filling, the down of TAION jackets is divided into chambers by quilting seams. This closes the chambers tightly enough to prevent cold outside air from entering, and the structure makes it difficult for air heated due to body temperature to escape. In addition, this technique helps to keep the down fluffy along the stitch.

TAION Reversible China Button Inner Down Vest - features:

• crew neck
• hidden 2-way front zipper plus toggle fasteners at the storm flap
• 2 welt pockets at lower front of side 1, 2 zip pockets at lower front of side 2
• regular fit
• shell: 100% nylon
• lining: 100% polyester
• insulation: 90% down, 10% feathers (800 fill power)

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Reversible China Button Inner Down Vest

134,95 €*

Available Sizes: S, M, L, XL, 2XL

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Non Down Military Reversible V Vest

83,96 €* 104,95 € -20%

Available Sizes: S, M, L, XL

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Another fresh reversible apparel piece from Japan, designed by TAION!

TAION Non Down Military Reversible V Neck - features:

• V neckline
• 2-way front zipper with branded pulls
• 2 self-fabric patch pockets at lower front of side 1, 2 self-fabric flap pockets at lower front of side 2
• zip openings at side seams
• TAION woven label at bottom left on both sides
• regular fit
• shell: 100% polyester rip-stop
• lining: 100% polyester rip-stop

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Non Down Military Reversible V Vest

94,45 €* 104,95 € -10%

Available Sizes: S, 2XL

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Non Down Military Reversible V Vest

68,21 €* 104,95 € -35%

Available Sizes: S, M, L, 2XL

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Non Down Military Reversible Crew Neck Cardigan

129,95 €*

Available Sizes: S, L

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Another fresh reversible apparel piece from Japan, designed by TAION!

TAION Non Down Military Reversible Crew Neck Cardigan - features:

• crew neck
• branded button closure at front opening
• 2 self-fabric patch pockets at lower front of side 1, 2 self-fabric flap pockets with button closure at lower front of side 2
• button openings at side seams
• TAION woven label at bottom left on both sides
• regular fit
• shell: 100% polyester rip-stop
• lining: 100% polyester rip-stop

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Non Down Military Reversible Crew Neck Cardigan

77,97 €* 129,95 € -40%

Available Sizes: S, M, L

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Another fresh reversible apparel piece from Japan, designed by TAION!

TAION Non Down Military Reversible Crew Neck Cardigan - features:

• crew neck
• snap button closure at front opening
• 2 self-fabric patch pockets at lower front of side 1, 2 self-fabric flap pockets with button closure at lower front of side 2
• button openings at side seams
• TAION woven label at bottom left on both sides
• regular fit
• shell: 100% polyester rip-stop
• lining: 100% polyester rip-stop

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Non Down Military Half Sleeve Shirts

44,97 €* 89,95 € -50%

Available Sizes: S, M

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Another fresh apparel piece from Japan, designed by TAION!

TAION Non Down Military Half Sleeve Shirt - features:

• turn-down collar
• branded button closure at front opening
• dual self-fabric flap pockets with branded button closure at chest
• straight, drawstring-adjustable bottom hem
• back yoke
• regular fit
• 100% polyester rip-stop

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Non Down Military Half Sleeve Shirts

35,98 €* 89,95 € -60%

Available Sizes: S, M, L, XL

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Non Down Military Half Sleeve Shirts

31,48 €* 89,95 € -65%

Available Sizes: S, M, XL, 2XL

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114,95 €*

Available Sizes: S, M, L, XL, 2XL

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Another fresh lifestyle design from Japan in timeless look from TAION!

TAION uses for its designs mainly down and feathers with high 800 fill power. This makes the products lighter compared to conventionally used down fillings. Compared to the usual 600FLP, TAION's 800FLP down filling can hold more insulating warm air, and thus it keeps you warmer.

After filling, the down of TAION jackets is divided into chambers by quilting seams. This closes the chambers tightly enough to prevent cold outside air from entering, and the structure makes it difficult for air heated due to body temperature to escape. In addition, this technique helps to keep the down fluffy along the stitch.

TAION Military W-Zip V Neck Down Vest - features:

• V neck
• 2-way metal front zipper
• 2 self-fabric patch pockets at lower front
• side zip opening
• herringbone tape bordering at hemlines
• regular fit
• shell: 100% nylon rip-stop
• lining: 100% polyester
• insulation: 95% down, 5% feathers (800 fill power)

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91,96 €* 114,95 € -20%

Available Sizes: M, L, XL, 2XL

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97,70 €* 114,95 € -15%

Available Sizes: S, M, L, XL, 2XL

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114,95 €*

Available Sizes: S, M, L, XL, 2XL

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114,95 €*

Available Sizes: S, M, L, XL, 2XL

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Military Riversible Crew Neck Down Jacket

194,95 €*

Available Sizes: S, M, L, XL, 2XL

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Another fresh reversible apparel piece from Japan, designed by TAION!

TAION uses for its designs mainly down and feathers with high fill power. This makes the products lighter compared to conventionally used down fillings. After filling, the down of TAION jackets is divided into chambers by quilting seams. This closes the chambers tightly enough to prevent cold outside air from entering, and the structure makes it difficult for air heated due to body temperature to escape. In addition, this technique helps to keep the down fluffy along the stitch.

TAION Military Reversible Crew Neck Down Jacket - features:

• crew neck
• hidden 2-way front zipper plus button closure at the storm flap
• 2 self-fabric patch pockets at lower front of side 1, 2 side-entry welt pockets at lower front of side 2
• slim stretch bordering at hemlines
• zip openings at side seams
• regular fit
• shell: 100% polyester fleece
• lining: 100% polyester plain weave with quilted stitching and water-repellent finish
• insulation: 95% down, 5% feathers (650 fill power)

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Military Riversible Crew Neck Down Jacket

179,95 €*

LP | 2024 | JP | Original (Zouenkeikaku)

Available Sizes: S, M, L, XL, 2XL

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Another fresh reversible apparel piece from Japan, designed by TAION!

TAION uses for its designs mainly down and feathers with high fill power. This makes the products lighter compared to conventionally used down fillings. After filling, the down of TAION jackets is divided into chambers by quilting seams. This closes the chambers tightly enough to prevent cold outside air from entering, and the structure makes it difficult for air heated due to body temperature to escape. In addition, this technique helps to keep the down fluffy along the stitch.

TAION Military Reversible Crew Neck Down Jacket - features:

• crew neck
• hidden 2-way front zipper plus button closure at the storm flap
• 2 self-fabric patch pockets at lower front of side 1, 2 side-entry welt pockets at lower front of side 2
• slim stretch bordering at hemlines
• zip openings at side seams
• regular fit
• shell: 100% polyester plain weave with quilted stitching and water-repellent finish
• lining: 100% polyester fleece
• insulation: 95% down, 5% feathers (650 fill power)

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Taika

On Chitou Jichi

34,99 €*

Wallpaper For The Soul Marbled Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / JP – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The two-piece rock band Taika’s (帯化) 3rd album ‘On Chitou Jichi’ (御池塘自治), originally released in 2023, is now available on vinyl. The album’s folkloric vocals and krautrock-inspired repetition swirl together with environmental sounds, creating an immersive atmosphere. The interplay between the post-Fourth World Revival soundscapes and the raw, earthy physicality rooted deep within the music blurs the line between the nostalgic and the novel, each reflecting echoes of the other.

In this album, Taika explores the residual sense of "foreignness" within the now-commonplace rock band format in Japan, re-examining it and injecting new possibilities for "translation" and reinterpretation into those gaps.

This release includes a large poster-style lyric sheet. Additionally, it comes with a download code for the digital version of ‘On Chitou Jichi,’ as well as a code for a destructive remix of Taika’s track “Kouraku Biyori” by the up-and-coming dub techno artist Yo, who is signed to Taika’s independent label, Zōen Keikaku.

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Tahiti 80

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Human Sounds)

29,99 €*

Wallpaper For The Soul Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Pop

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After the worldwide success of their first album Puzzle (1999), which sold over 200,000 copies and went gold in Japan, Xavier Boyer (vocals, guitars), Pedro Resende (bass), Médéric Gontier (guitars) & Sylvain Marchand (drums) reunited with producer Andy Chase to record the follow-up, Wallpaper for the Soul, in New York City. Starting in November 2001 at Stratosphere Sound, the prolific sessions gave birth to twenty tracks, twelve of which appeared on the original tracklist. The eight outtakes were compiled on the mini albums A Piece of Sunshine (2003) & Extra Pieces of Sunshine (2004). This new vinyl edition will be the first time all these songs appear together. Almost 20 years on, Wfts is a tour de force of contemporary songwriting with obvious nods to the past somehow revisited in a timeless fashion. Tahiti 80’s second effort can also be seen as an alternative and more sophisticated snapshot of an era often associated with the rebirth of rock (The White Stripes, The Strokes…). This set of songs also established them as stalwarts of the Post French Touch cannon, showcasing both their ability to write catchy songs and their knack for mélanges & experimentation. 1,000 Times or The Train are unique examples of blue-eyed soul augmented with French flair (« Prefab Sprout as produced by Thomas Bangalter » suggested Uncut which listed Wfts in their Top Ten’s albums of 2003). Listen to Don’t Look Below today, and ask yourself who was mixing Destiny’s Child with My Bloody Valentine in 2001? Delicate numbers like Open Book or live favorite Better Days Will Come both demonstrate T80’s songwriting skills and their innate sense of melancholia. Listening back to Wfts today, one cannot help but think of it as an album recorded in a state-of-the-art fashion. All four members would typically perform together in the same room. Basic takes were printed on a 24-track analog tape machine and then bounced onto a computer for editing. A fine example of this method is the title track itself. Originally written on acoustic guitar, Wallpaper … is the result of three eight minutes synthesizer jams pieced together. The Frenchmen were keen to try out multitude of ideas and had developed a taste for experimentation. The sessions also coincide with a rich outburst of creativity from a band on top of their game after several months of touring around the world. Another typical Wfts characteristic is Richard Hewson’s orchestration. Veteran string arranger, famous for arranging The Beatles’ The Long And Winding Road or writing RAH Band’s ‘80s classic Clouds Across The Moon Hewson gave the songs a sweeping orchestral touch. Strings, Horns & woodwinds were all performed at the now defunct Olympic Studios in London. Urban Soul Orchestra, a 24-piece ensemble who played on Oasis’ or Spice Girls’ hits can be heard on five songs: the opening trilogy Wallpaper…, 1,000 Times and The Other Side, then on the Northern Soul revival Soul Deep and lastly on the album’s closer Memories Of The Past. Rouen’s most famous four-piece, now relocated in a house on France’s North West Coast, in the quiet seaside town of Étretat, added more bells & whistles and resumed production on the songs. With one last transatlantic leap during the summer of 2002, the boys flew to Portland, Oregon to attend the mixing sessions held by sound wizard Tony Lash (Elliott Smith, The Dandy Warhols…). Suggested by Sub Pop’s craftsman Eric Matthews, also a guest on trumpet and keyboards, Lash would later become a major collaborator on Tahiti 80’s subsequent albums. In the meantime, Laurent Fétis, the designer behind Puzzle’s iconic artwork, had started working with artist Elisabeth Arkhipoff on a set of nostalgic photographs transfigured with a soft air-bush technique. Those visuals, like their predecessors, have since become an inseparable companion to Tahiti 80’s music. Many musical fashions and flavors of the month have come and gone, but twenty years after its release, Wfts still sounds fresh and relevant. And always forward-looking, Tahiti 80 is currently wrapping up the recording of their eighth album, to be released in early 2022.

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