Having just moved to Japan, I have been going wild in the second hand shops on vinyl. Sadly, I know next to nothing about japanese new wave (seems like a lot of it), so other then buying on hilarity of cover, please recommend me some!
If I see one more bloody Bay City Rollers album...
― tommytannoy, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 12:41 (sixteen years ago) link
ippu du
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 20:29 (sixteen years ago) link
YMO
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 20:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Masami Tsuchiya
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 20:35 (sixteen years ago) link
outside of YMO, I only know The Plastics and Friction. The former are jerky YMO meets Devo new wave, the latter, severe no-wave rock with members who had played in an early version of James Chance's bands.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 20:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Zelda
― gott elektron, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 20:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Sandii and the Sunsetz!
― Digital Video Camera, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 04:27 (sixteen years ago) link
"Exitentialism" by Beatniks is also pretty good; it's a collab between Yukihiro Takahashi and Keiichi Suzuki.
In fact, a lot of Yukihiro Takahashi's early solo stuff is consistently ginchy.
Otherwise, I second Masami Tsuchiya.
― Digital Video Camera, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 04:31 (sixteen years ago) link
i heartily recommend ymo's bgm lp
― winston, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 05:25 (sixteen years ago) link
I picked up a nice solid state survivor with obi for 50p. Haven't seen bgm. No plastics sadly either.
Thanks for the recommendations I'll keep a look out (I think I saw that Beatniks LP near me).
― tommytannoy, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 06:44 (sixteen years ago) link
That Meco Empire Strikes Back single is pretty disco (in a good way), but the subject matter makes it come across kinda new wave too. Awesome record.
― Nate Carson, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 07:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Meco was italian-american, I think. If we're talking about the same thing.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 08:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Plastics were quite good.
― zeus, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 10:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Godeigo! I have an album by Rosa Luxemburg that's pretty ok.
― Matt #2, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 10:59 (sixteen years ago) link
"Meco was italian-american, I think. If we're talking about the same thing."
You are so right. Wow I had no idea.
― Nate Carson, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 11:09 (sixteen years ago) link
P-Model are late 70s Devoesque/Polysics type stuff with some variance in the mix. Give it a try, a couple of good tracks.
― Mister Craig, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 11:13 (sixteen years ago) link
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2031/2245637669_0ed54375b1_m.jpg
P-Model's 'In A Model Room' from 1979. Lovely sleeve that.
― Mister Craig, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 11:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Certainly can't miss that.
Also sure I saw a Rosa Luxembourg in one place. Now I can set out armed with a list.
― tommytannoy, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 13:51 (sixteen years ago) link
REVIVE!
especially for this video. i want more stuff too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk6o4GWFIV8
― jaxon, Wednesday, 7 July 2010 05:05 (thirteen years ago) link
omg this video too. looks like Robert Abel stuff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OOLxGjb3dY
― jaxon, Wednesday, 7 July 2010 05:08 (thirteen years ago) link
i really dig this album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAbdEoTy2sY
― jaxon, Wednesday, 7 July 2010 05:10 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ9jowZ5jzA
so many of these guys worked with the guys from the band Japan. steve jansen, mick karn. love it.
― jaxon, Wednesday, 7 July 2010 05:22 (thirteen years ago) link
this album's fantastic. sakamoto w/robin scott (of band M) and adrian belew
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PpjSvxwagc
― jaxon, Wednesday, 7 July 2010 05:25 (thirteen years ago) link
i guess you missed/ignored the thread from like a week ago where we talked about this music in detail?
― 不合作的方式 (r1o natsume), Wednesday, 7 July 2010 15:51 (thirteen years ago) link
"BGM" by the Yellow Magic Orchestra is the greatest electronic pop album ever.
― 不合作的方式 (r1o natsume), Wednesday, 7 July 2010 15:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Wow. You're right. I did miss it. Thanks.
― jaxon, Wednesday, 7 July 2010 16:36 (thirteen years ago) link
This song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRgLhEGEetc
Mariah - Shinzo No TObira
― Moka, Wednesday, 7 July 2010 18:18 (thirteen years ago) link
P-Model x 1000
― frogbs, Monday, 4 October 2010 20:53 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuo3I4CChzQ
This one's pretty nice.
― carpet_kaiser, Saturday, 21 October 2017 21:22 (six years ago) link
I realise I might be the guy who’s asking if there’s something wrong with his copy of Psychocandy, but is the Colored Music s/t album that WRWTFWW reissued recently supposed to sound like it was recorded in a cardboard box filled with mud?
― the creator has a mazda van (NickB), Saturday, 12 October 2019 19:59 (four years ago) link
Actually ‘Individual Beauty’ is on Spotify and that sounds pretty much the same way so I guess the answer is yes. Is that a deliberate aesthetic move? Kind of frustrating cos the music is spectacular
― the creator has a mazda van (NickB), Saturday, 12 October 2019 20:06 (four years ago) link
Sound quality is reminding me of making music using two tape recorders to overdub parts and gradually the backing track would end up like nth gen audio soup
― the creator has a mazda van (NickB), Saturday, 12 October 2019 20:40 (four years ago) link
― the creator has a mazda van (NickB)
yeah it definitely is!
― Spironolactone T. Agnew (rushomancy), Saturday, 12 October 2019 21:06 (four years ago) link
cannot stop listening to this one song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEc10enpIfM
Iria - Silver Wave
― ymo sumac (NickB), Thursday, 23 January 2020 21:10 (four years ago) link
not sure if this is really the right thread, but man that new Vanity Records box set is a thing of wonder and beauty
― The Squalls Of Hate (sleeve), Thursday, 23 January 2020 21:11 (four years ago) link
https://www.discogs.com/Various-Vanity-Box-Vanity-Records/release/14429754
― The Squalls Of Hate (sleeve), Thursday, 23 January 2020 21:12 (four years ago) link
I've always wondered about the BGM album
― Maresn3st, Thursday, 23 January 2020 22:22 (four years ago) link
fwiw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUigwx1vb6U
― The Squalls Of Hate (sleeve), Thursday, 23 January 2020 22:39 (four years ago) link
Thanks, that is not what I expected.
― Maresn3st, Friday, 24 January 2020 09:53 (four years ago) link
Bought a copy of Chakra's second album 'Satekoso' at the weekend, synthy new wave with lots of proggy twists and turns - amazing record:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrNcsouDBMA
― ymo sumac (NickB), Monday, 3 February 2020 12:10 (four years ago) link
Yeah, great album. I got into it after youtube kept recommending me a mix with this in it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHGqvYVfpEU
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 3 February 2020 14:38 (four years ago) link
not sure if this is really the right thread, but man that new Vanity Records box set is a thing of wonder and beauty― The Squalls Of Hate (sleeve), Thursday, January 23, 2020 4:11 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink
Been listening to the first Tolerance album on repeat for a couple of weeks. It's so good that I still haven't heard the rest of the set. I have no idea what genre this is, it defies categorization.
― Deflatormouse, Tuesday, 4 February 2020 16:14 (four years ago) link
^^ exactly what I love about it, Tom
― let's talk about gecs baby (sleeve), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 16:16 (four years ago) link
damn autocorrect, that was supposed to be OTM
― let's talk about gecs baby (sleeve), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 16:17 (four years ago) link
not sure where to put this?
https://lightintheattic.net/releases/7377-somewhere-between-mutant-pop-electronic-minimalism-shadow-sounds-of-japan-1980-1988
― the late great, Wednesday, 16 December 2020 21:39 (three years ago) link
only song I recognize is the Dip in the Pool one which is quite good
don't know the rest but I might take a chance anyway, LTiA rarely disappoints
― frogbs, Wednesday, 16 December 2020 23:34 (three years ago) link
Light The In Attic
― frogbs, Wednesday, 16 December 2020 23:35 (three years ago) link
i have the sonoko album - produced by colin newman iirc, has some good stuff on it
― kites aren't fun (NickB), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 23:51 (three years ago) link
some choice cuts from the Vanity label on that comp
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Thursday, 17 December 2020 00:20 (three years ago) link
i only know the mkwaju tracks. that's midori takada's first project before her solo debut, "through the looking glass".
i have both of the mkwaju albums and they're super good! not quite as reich-ian as "through the looking glass", more funky and percussive. the use of african drumming and percussion gives it a very "fourth world" feel.
not sure i'd call it either pop or new wave though, definitely seems like the odd track out
― the late great, Thursday, 17 December 2020 00:33 (three years ago) link
oh man, I love chakra and mishio ogawa's solo records. the track on that comp is kind of an anomaly tho. it's a hosono production and you can tell, nothing else on that album or in her catalog sounds much like it. sorta prefer her lush 90s anime ballad stuff that came afterwards myself tho.
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Friday, 18 December 2020 05:28 (three years ago) link
maybe one for the listening thread and i'm sure a lot of you have all those songs somewhere anyway, but i've just been enjoying this v old UK comp. still copies out there for cheap (i found mine for a fiver somewhere a few years back):
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1884/1683/products/IMG_6961_grande.jpg
tracklist:
Hikashu - New TribeAkiko Yano - Rose GardenEarthling - You Go On NaturalYukihiro Takahashi - MirrormanicShoukichi Kina - Mimichiri BozuLizard - Sa Ka NaHikashu - The ModelSalon Music - Hunting On ParisAkiko Yano - Canton Boy
― would a nit be nice? (NickB), Sunday, 14 February 2021 13:44 (three years ago) link
this is what the blurb on the red light records website says about it:
"Killer compilation of Japanese wave and experimental pop with a few exclusive versions of tracks that only appear on this LP. David Claridge who complied the record traveled around Tokyo with a hand-held Sony cassette recorder ( as featured on the front of the album ) and inserted snippets of ambient city sounds and overheard conversations between the cuts of the album. Fullest recommendations!"
― would a nit be nice? (NickB), Sunday, 14 February 2021 13:45 (three years ago) link
All good so far yes? So the whole punchline for this and what tickled me is that the guy who made the compilation will be extremely familiar to any who grew up in the UK.
It's a guy called David Claridge, just check out who his alias is on Discogs:
https://www.discogs.com/artist/741684-David-Claridge
― would a nit be nice? (NickB), Sunday, 14 February 2021 13:50 (three years ago) link
any 'Hunting On Paris' is my new favourite song, so thank you Mr RRSS for bringing it into my life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txW08c5-Mbo
― would a nit be nice? (NickB), Sunday, 14 February 2021 13:56 (three years ago) link
'anyway'
― would a nit be nice? (NickB), Sunday, 14 February 2021 13:57 (three years ago) link
Great comp! I think I may have come across it on the Mutant Sound blog. I had that exact same walkman when I was a kid, it was really small, lasted for years and years, and had two headphone jacks. Amazing detail about Claridge tho', I had no idea!
― The Goodies font (Maresn3st), Sunday, 14 February 2021 14:09 (three years ago) link
It blew my mind! Turns out he was the guy that ran the Mobile Suit Corporation label, who put out not just that comp, but all the Monsoon records and also had a massive hit when they released Trio's 'Da Da Da' in the UK. Never going to think of RR the same way again!
― would a nit be nice? (NickB), Sunday, 14 February 2021 14:19 (three years ago) link
Weird, I was sure that I'd been on this thread to post about Portray Heads before. Their album was reissued last year and it is fucking fantastic stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5A4NaFaIgw
― emil.y, Sunday, 14 February 2021 15:46 (three years ago) link
neat stuff!
― would a nit be nice? (NickB), Sunday, 14 February 2021 16:24 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT1st0QZPNE
― xzanfar, Monday, 15 February 2021 00:38 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1YkHJJi-tc
― xzanfar, Monday, 15 February 2021 00:40 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMMA4Da0qRo
― MaresNest, Friday, 14 July 2023 21:36 (nine months ago) link
This is amazing. Apart from Mariah, I can't find most of this on streaming.
https://www.mixcloud.com/andy_browntown/japanese-80s-post-punk-underground/
― Confessions of an Oatmeal Eater (I M Losted), Friday, 19 January 2024 20:38 (three months ago) link