Please recommend me some Japanese new wave...

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!"

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

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

'anyway'

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!

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!

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

neat stuff!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT1st0QZPNE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1YkHJJi-tc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMMA4Da0qRo

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/