Japan – The Sound Projector

03/04/2023 nausika

Technodelic: a strange techno-psychedelic trip through Japanese and Western culture in the early 1980s

Yellow Magic Orchestra, Technodelic, Japan, Alfa, ALR-28030 vinyl LP (1981) Fans of legendary electronic synthpop band Yellow Magic Orchestra will

11/11/2022 nausika

NON baNd (self-titled): new lease of life for skronky post-punk / new wave cult band’s debut album

NON baNd, self-titled, Germany, TAL, TAL04 clear vinyl LP (2017, reissued 2022) Originally released back in 1982, the only album

29/08/2022 nausika

Red Heaven: a powerful style of depressive black metal / post-BM beauty

Ebola, Red Heaven, Japan, Zero Dimensional Records, ZDR083 CD (2022) The front cover artwork of Ebola’s “Red Heaven” album featuring

29/06/2022 nausika

Landscape and Voice: where field recordings and voice glitch become a sonic art gallery

Toshiya Tsunoda, Landscape and Voice, Australia, Black Truffle Records, BT089 vinyl LP limited edition (2022) As a sound artist creating

27/05/2022 nausika

Thanatos of Funk: reissue of a whimsically eclectic album of electro-disco funk, light metal and hip-hop

Minoru Fushimi, Thanatos of Funk, France, 180g, 180GRELP02 vinyl LP (1985, reissued 2022) For nearly 40 years after its first

03/03/2022 Ed Pinsent

You Still Believe In Me

Cassette tape from Takahiro Kawaguchi is Recorded Xenoglossy (PILGRIM TALK PT40) … Kawaguchi is a Japanese player whose work has

17/08/2021 Ed Pinsent

Where do the Waving Nerves Go?

Remarkable set of studio improvisation from the small group Archeus on their self-titled record (HAANG-004) from Haang Niap Records. This

09/04/2021 nausika

Sound Storing Machines – The First 78rpm Records from Japan, 1903 – 1912: early recorded Japanese music still sounding fresh after over 100 years

Various Artists, Sound Storing Machines – The First 78rpm Records from Japan, 1903 – 1912, United States, Sublime Frequencies, SF115

29/12/2019 Ed Pinsent

Metal Mickey

Ken Matsutani deserves to be reckoned as a hero of Japanese underground rock. He formed Marble Sheep and the Run-Down

20/10/2019 Stuart Marshall

Where Are We Now?

Let’s Get PataPhysical Shohei Amimori PataMusic JAPAN NOBLE NBL-225 CD (2016) Manic J-pop-tronica that venerates/masticates Japanese household names like Cornelius