*essential and/or accessible releases that make for good entry points for the section

**personal favorites

POP GENERAL (pop rock, indie pop, art pop, baroque pop, experimental pop...)

ACO - Irony

Advantage Lucy - Have a Good Journey (1996-2000)*

After Dinner - Paradise of Replica**

Akiko Yano - Japanese Girl*

Akino Arai - Furu Platinum

anonymoss - anonymoss

Chinatsu Kuzuu - The City In The Sea**

Citrus - Wispy, No Mercy*

Clammbon - Re-Clammbon 2*

Colored Music - Colored Music

Corina Corrina - Corina Tour '82

Crayon-Sha - Orange no Chikyuugi

Doopees - Doopee Time**

Eiko Ishibashi - Drifting Devil

Etsuko Yakushimaru - Radio Onsen Eutopia

eX-Girl -Back to the Mono Kero

Gekko Imonkyaku - Gatsu Gadetanode

Haco - Ash in the Rainbow** and Happiness Proof

Haruomi Hosono - Paraiso (w/ The Yellow Magic Band)

Hirono Mio - Fruits of the Moon

Hiroshi Fujiwara - Nothing Much Better to Do and Classic Dub Classics

Hoahio - Ohayo! Hoahio!

Ichiko Hashimoto - Beauty

Jun Miyake - Stolen From Strangers

Kokusyoku Sumire - Anderu Meruhen Kakyokushuu

LaB Life - Planet Headphone

Lucky Old Sun - I'm So Sorry, Mom

Lullatone - Soundtracks for Everyday Adventures*

Mariah - Utakata no Hibi

Mariko Fuji - Kyousoukyoku

Mayumi Kojima - Ai no Poltergeist*

Mihomihomakoto - Mihomihomakoto

Minako Yoshida - Flapper

Mio Fou - Mio Fou

Modern Choki Chokies -

Mon Murmure - Le Bon Bon

Nagisa ni te - The Same as a Flower

Pizzicato V - Pizzicatomania!**

Real Fish - A Very Big Band In Heaven

Rehabilual - New Child

Rosa Luxemburg - II

Round Table Featuring Nino - APRIL

Ryuichi Sakamoto - Thousand Knives of Ryuichi Sakamoto

Saeko Suzuki - Visinda og Leyndardmur

Salon Music - Mash**

Shena Ringo - Karuki Zamen Kuri no Hana*

Shugo Tokumaru - Port Entropy*

Soutaiseiriron - Hi-Fi Anatomia

Spangle Call Lilli Line - Spangle Call Lilli Line

Swing Slow - Swing Slow

Syzygys - Complete Studio Recordings**

Tavito Nanao - ...! Disc 2

Tin Pan Alley - Caramel Mama

Yasuaki Shimizu - Kakashi

Yellow Magic Orchestra - Solid State Survivor* and Naughty Boys

Yoko Fujita - Atai no Namida

Yoshio Hayakawa - Kakkoii Koto wa Nante Kakkowaruin Darou

Yuko Ikoma - Esquisse

Yumi Arai - Hik-ki Gumo

- Le Jardin Du Luxembourg

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A. TRADITIONAL POPULAR MUSIC (rykka, enka, kaykyoku, proto-Jpop...)

Eri Chiemi & The Tokyo Cuban Boys - *

Hibari Misora - Original Best 50

Ichimaru

Idzumi Yukimura - Till I Waltz Again With You / Jambalaya

Ito Yukari - Ketteiban Ito Yukari

Katsutaro Kouta

Keiko Fuji- Golden Best

Keiko Ikuta - Paraba / Baio de dois**

Kyu Sakamoto - Sukiyaki*

Linda Yamamoto - All Linda Yamamoto

Meiko Kaji - Kaji Meiko no hajiki uta*

Michiko Hamamura -

Michiya Mihashi

Noriko Awaya - Mes chres chansons: Victor Recordings 1951-1959**

Sachiko Nishida

Sumako Matsui - Katyushas song

Various Artists - Nippon Girls Japanese Pop, Beat & Bossa Nova 1966-70*

Various Artists - : Shimauta Pops in 60's-70's

Various Artists - 3-8 (1928-1933)**

Various Artists - 9-12 (1934-1937)**

 Various Artists - 15-20 (1940-1945)**

Yoko Kuroki and Orquesta Tpica Tokyo - /

Yoshie Fujiwara - /

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B. "OLD" J-POP (city pop and similarly stylized J-pop from the '70s and '80s)

Akina Nakamori - Fushigi

Ami Ozaki - Prismy

Anri - Timely!!

Cosmic Invention - Cosmorama

Eiichi Ohtaki - A Long Vacation*

Kaoru Akimoto - Cologne*

Haruomi Hosono, Shigeru Suzuki & Tatsuro Yamashita - Pacific*

Hiroko Hayashi - BEST

Hiromi Go Labryrinth

Hitomi Ishikawa - Machibuse

Kikuchi Momoko - Adventure**

Juicy Fruits - Pajama Date

Junko Yagami - Full Moon

Juri Hamada -

Maiko Okamoto - Fascination

Mari Iijima - Ros**

Mariya Takeuchi - Variety

Miharu Koshi

Miki Matsubara - Pocket Park

Minako Honda - 1986-nen no Marilyn / **

Momoe Yamaguchi - Golden Flight

Rajie -

Saint Four - The Best of

 Seiko Matsuda - Kaze wa Aki Iro / Eighteen

Shigeru Suzuki - Band Wagon

Sugar Babe - Sugar Babe*

Taeko Ohnuki - Sunshower**

Tatsuro Yamashita - Spacy*

Tomoko Aran - Body to Body

Toshiki Kadomatsu - Sea Is A Lady

Yasuhiro Abe - Cafe Flamingo / Still I Love You

Yasuyuki Okamura - Yasuyuki

Yoko Minamino - /

Yuki Saito - * and Love

Yukiko Okada - and

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C. CONTEMPORARY J-POP (electropop, and J-pop from the '90s on)

Bonnie Pink - Heaven's Kitchen

Chara - Madrigal** and Junior Sweet

Fumie Hosokawa - The Best Hit & Heal + Clips ~Hosokawa Fumie Best Collection~

Hikaru Utada - Ultra Blue

Kyary Pamyu Pamyu - *

Makoto Kawamoto - Makoto Kawamoto

Perfume -

Serani Poji - One-Room Survival*

Tomoe Shinohara - Super Model

Especia - GUSTO

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D. SHIBUYA-KEI (picopop, bitpop, neo-Shibuya-kei, twee...)

800 Cherries - Romantico

 Aikagi - Waterproof Leaf

Bluen - Bluen

Bridge - Preppy Kicks**

Chocolat - One Too Many Chocolat

COPTER4016882 - Perfect Joke

Cornelius - Point*

Fantastic Plastic Machine - The Fantastic Plastic Machine*

Flipper's Guitar - Three Cheers for Our Side* and Camera Talk

Frenesi - Cupra

Havana Exotica - Hello!! Martian!!!!!

Hideki Kaji - Mini-Skirt

Hi-Posi - **

Instant Cytron - Una marcia**

Kahimi Karie - K.K.K.K.K.

Karia Nomoto - Karly

Kenji Ozawa - LIFE*

Lamp - Koibito e*

Maylove - Sing Little Clam Sing

Microstar - Microstar Album

Momoka Akashi -

NAGISA COSMETIC - Nagisa Cosmetic

Pizzicato Five - Pizzicatomania! and This Year's Girl*

Plus-tech Squeeze Box - Cartooom!

Qypthone - Montuno No. 5

Roly Poly Rag Bear - Straw, Water, Pinstripe

Serani Poji - One-Room Survival

Sucrette - C'est si bon

Takako Minekawa - Roomic Cube

Three Berry Icecream - Three Berry Icecream**

 Tirolean Tape - Demonstrator

Towa Tei - Future Listening!*

Various Artists - Bossa Nova 1991: Shibuya Scene Retrospective**

Yukari Fresh - Trefoils Hat

Yoshinori Sunahara - Pan Am: The Sound of '70s

Zoobombs - Let It Bomb

FOLK

A. TRADITIONAL FOLK (soukyoku, gagaku, koto, minyou, heikyoku, shamisen, experimental Japanese
folk, Japanese classical...)

Chieko Mori - Jumping Rabbit*

Chikuzan Takahashi - Tsugaru Shamisen

Ensemble Nipponia - Japan: Traditional Vocal & Instrumental Music*

Gor Yamaguchi - A Bell Ringing in the Empty Sky**

Kinshi Tsuruta - Satsuma biwa

Mamoru Fujieda - Patterns of Plants

Michio Miyagi - Masterpieces of Koto**

Michiyo Yagi - Shizuku

Nanae Yoshimura - The Art of the Koto, Volume One

Nosaka Keiko - Ballata Sinfonica: Keiko Nosaka Recital

Rentaro Taki - Kojo no Tsuki

Satomi Saeki & Alcvin Takegawa Ramos - Japanese Traditional Koto & Shakuhachi

Somei Satoh - Mandara Trilogy

Stomu Yamash'ta - Red Buddha

Tadao Sawai - Historic concert

Tani Senzan & Yoko Tanaka - Evening Snow

The Kyoto Imperial Court Music Orchestra - Gagaku: The Imperial Court Music of Japan

Tokyo Gakuso - Gagaku: Court Music of Japan

Toru Takemitsu - In an Autumn Garden**

 Tsha Suih - Die vier Jahreszeiten in Kyoto / Four Seasons in Kyoto

Toshiyuki Tsuchitori - : Dtaku: Ancient Japanese Bronze Bells From Yayoi

Period B.C. 400 - A.D. 25**

Umekichi - *

Umeko Ando - Ihunke

Various Artists - Japanese Koto Consort

Various Artists - Japon 3 Gagaku*

Yoshihisa Tara - Tribute to Noguchi

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B. CONTEMPORARY FOLK (indie folk, folk rock/pop, avant-folk, progressive folk, singer/songwriter...)

A Qui Avec Gabriel - Utsuho

Bliki Circus - Bliki Charine

Charan-Po-Rantan & Cancan Balkan - Tada, Soredake.

Cinorama - Garden, The Garden

Eddie Marcon - Wata No Kemuri No Syotaijo**

Freylekh Jamboree - Klezmer No Hana Ha Amaku Saku

Fuchigami to Funato - Happy Set

Hachiman Mae - Hachiman-Mae

Hachimitsupai -

Haruka Nakamura - Grace

Happy End - Kazemachi Roman*

Hatsuo Yamaya / Hachimitsupai - Yamaya Hatsuo no Horo Kashu: Shinjuku

Ichiko Aoba - Utabiko**

Jon - Smoke

Ju Sei - Taigun-Yei

Kan Mikami - Onkashu: Hiraku Yume nado Arujanashi

Kazuki Tomokawa - Muzan no Bi

Kengo Iuchi -
Kenichi Fumoto -

Kumiko Suyama - Yume no Hajimari**

kyooo -

L - Holy Letters

Luna Park Ensemble - Mushi-Kui Mandala**

Maher Shalal Hash Baz - Blues du jour

Meme - Chitotetochi**

Meso Meso - Mitten

Minakumari - Rasa

Morio Agata - Otome no Roman

Morita Douji - A Boy*

Nika Soup & Saya Sauce - Ipiya

Noise - Tenno

Sai Yoshiko - Taiji no Yume*

Sakamoto Hiromichi -

Shoukichi Kina / Champloose - &

Shuji Inaba - Yoenzange

Slap Happy Humphrey - Slap Happy Humphrey

Sonotanotanpenz - 3

Takami - Yume no Kirigishi

Tayutau -

The Fujii - We Pray The Brooze

Tomoaki Saito - Saito Tomoaki

Various Artists - Kougezan KoukijiP: The Live 11th Hyakusenmansyuuraku

Yoriko Ichinomiya -

Yuka Ijichi - Peanuts Butter

Yumbo - Flicker/Echo

Zuno Keisatsu - Zun Keisatsu 1

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 -

NEW WAVE (synth pop, ethereal wave, techno kayo, zolo...)

Akebonojirushi - Paradise Mambo

Chakra - Satekoso*

Chiemi Manabe - Fushigi Shoujo

Cioccolata - Cioccolata**

Films - Misprint

Guernica - Shinseiki e no Unga

Haniwa-Chan - Kanashibari**

Hara Masumi - Yoru No Sachi

Ill Bone -

Inoyama Land - Danzindan Pojidon

Interior - Interior (Japanese Yen label pressing)*

Kuroyuri Shimai -

Lewisite - Time Traveller

Masakosan - MONKEYS WAX

Miharu Koshi - Parallelisme** and Boy Soprano

Min & Kunina-Men - + 2 Songs

Normal Brain - Ready Made

Pale Cocoon - **

Panasist - Hoshizora No Panasist

Plastics - Welcome Plastics

Picky Picnic - Ha! Ha! Tarachine**

Popsong's Factory - My Pops

Portable Rock - Beginnings*

Psy-S - Pic-Nic**

Salaried Man Club - Gray Cross

Salon Music - La Paloma Show

Shampoo - Tonight

SPY - SPY

Susan - Complete Susan

Tamao Koike - Unreleased Materials**

Tanoshii Ongaku -

Togawa Jun - Tamahime-Sama*

Tomo Akikawabaya - The Castle

Varit - Location at Hollywood

Various Artists - Foam

Various Artists - Soft Selection 84

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A. POST PUNK (synth punk, minimal synth, gothic rock...)

3F=C - To.Ma.Do.I**

Anode/Cathode - Punkanachrock

Boys Boys - Monkey Monkey / Control Tower

C. Memi - Heavenly Peace

Coma - In a Coma

Daisuck & Prostitute - *

Dend Marionette - Dend Marionette**

Duppi - Velvet Night /

Earthling - Slow Down the World / Urbanitrops

E.D.P.S. - Blue Sphinx

EP-4 - Lingua Franca-1

Gakidou - Pandora no Hako

INU - Meshi Kuuna!*

JAGATARA - *

Lizard - Lizard*

Kou Machida - **
 Kokushoku Elegy - Esoderic Mania

Mannequin Neurose - Mannequin Neurose

Michio Kadotani -

Mizutama Shobodan - Otome no Inori wa Da Da Da

NG - Ugomeku Ego

Panicsmile - Eats Tokyo Alive!

Papaya Paranoia - War War War** and Mohaya kore made**

Phew - Phew and View**

P.T.A'S - New Songs

P-Model - In a Model Room

Quasimode - Jeux De Vertige

RNA Organism - R.N.A.O. Meets P.O.P.O.

Rorie with A*T*H - Door Dream

Russian Ballet Troupe -

Sarasvati - Dendrocacaglia

Still - Pale Face

Sympathy Nervous - Sympathy Nervous*

Totsuzen Danball - Yokushi Oto Chikara

Tsunematsu Masatoshi - Tsunematsu Masatoshi

Various Artists - Music (Vanity Records)

Yapoos - Yapoos Keikaku**

Zelda - Carnaval*

ROCK GENERAL (pop rock, experimental rock, garage rock, indie rock...)

88kasyo - +*

Accidents in Too Large Field - New Buildings

BOaT - RORO

Boris - Heavy Rocks (Orange)*

Coaltar of the Deepers - Yukari Telepath*

Date Course Pentagon Royal Garden - Report From Iron Mountain

downy - Mudai 3

Eksperimentoj - Eksperimentoj

Fishmans - Long Season** and Uch Nippon Setagaya

Green Zone - Bayt

Kinoco Hotel -

Kinoko Teikoku - Eureka

Ling Tosite Sigure - Inspiration Is Dead

Mass of the Fermenting Dregs - Mass of the Fermenting Dregs*

Melt-Banana - Cell-Scape

Natsumen - NEVER WEAR OUT yOUR SUMMER xxx !!!

NISENNENMONDAI - Destination Tokyo and Neji/Tori

Novo Tono - Panorama Paradise

Number Girl - School Girl Distortional Addict*

Praha Depart - UOU SAOU

Quruli - Team Rock*

Scoobie Do -

Sonic Flower - Sonic Flower

Sparta Locals - Sun Sun Sun

Sunny Day Service - Sunny Day Service

Supercar - Three Out Change

Sweet Inspirations - Life Affair Trust Music I: Life

Tenjo Sajiki - Sho o Suteyo, Machi e Dey

The 5.6.7.8's - Bomb the Twist*

The Pillows - Little Busters*

YBO - Alienation**

Yurayura Teikoku - 3X3X3*

Zeni Geva - Desire for Agony

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 A. SURF ROCK/ELEKI

Blue Jeans - Let's Go Eleki-Bushi

Takeshi Terauchi and the Bunnys - This Is Terauchi Bushi*

The Royal Fingers - Wild Eleki Deluxe

Yoshio Kimura - Wakai Saundo*

Yuzo Kayama - Black Sand Beach/Violet Sky*

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B. PROGRESSIVE (progressive rock, avant prog, zeuhl, neo-prog...)

A-Musik - E Ku Iroju

Akira Ishikawa & Count Buffalos - Uganda

Altered States - Mosaic**

Alef - Hajime!

Ashada - Circulation

Asturias - Cryptogam Illusion

Bondage Fruit - Bondage Fruit**

Brast Burn - DEBON

Demi Semi Quaver - Demi Semi Quaver

Dragon Blue - Hades Park

Far East Family Band - Nipponjin

Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Rinne Kokyogaku**

Green Milk From the Planet Orange - City Calls Revolution

Ground Zero - Plays Standards**

Happy Family - Toscco

Harpy - Speech on the Radio

Hiro Yanagida - Milk Time

Hoppy Kamiyama - A Meaningful Meaningnessless

Imahoritsuneoyoshidatatsuya - Dots
 Jyoji Sawada - Base of Fiction

Katra Turana - Katra Turana

Knead - 1st

Koenjihyakkei - Ni*

Korekyojin - Korekyojin*

Le Silo - 8.8

Mong Hang - Debakata

Osamu Kitajima - Benzaiten

Ruins - Hyderomastgroningem*

Sadistic Mika Band - Black Ship

Sanhedolin - Manjo Icchi Wa Muko

Stomu Yamash'ta - Floating Music

Tipographica - God Says I Can't Dance

The World Heritage - The Tropic of Cancer

Yonin Bayashi - Golden Picnics*

Wha Ha Ha - Shinutokiwa Betsu**

- Parallax

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C. PUNK (punk rock, hardcore punk, d-beat, no wave...)

385 -

Aburadako - Aburadako (aka Ki-ban)*

Acid - Gray Earth*

Akevonoiz - Akevonoiz

Bastard - Wind of Pain

Chance Operation - Chance Operation

Coa - Smell Me, Smell My Grand Father

Confuse - Nuclear Addicts

Conga Fury - Bullshit Disaster

Death Side - Bet On the Possibility

Friction - Friction**

Gaddess

Gai - Extermination

Gaseneta - Sooner or Later*

Gauze - Equalizing Distort

Gudon -

Guillotine Terror - Black Rebel Storm**

Gunjogacrayon - Gunjogacrayon**

Kulara - Fragmental Remembrance a Switch of Resurrection and My Hearing Vanished

Kuro - Who the Helpless

Kyah - Slapdash

L-ppisch - L-ppisch

Maria 023 - Theme & Human Being

Midori - Second

Non Band - Non Band

Nurse -

Outo Syojodan - 7

Pablo Picasso - Soft Type

Pineapple 4.9 - Pineapple 4.9

Saboten - Floor et Satie

Shojoningyo - Shojyo Ningyo

S.O.B. - Don't Be Swindle

State Children - Bomb Shelter for Money Making!

The Comes - No Side

The Stalin - Stop Jap*

The Swankys - Rock 'n Roll History Fuck Off!!

Tranquilizer - Tranquilizer

Zouo - The Final Agony

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D. METAL (drone/drone doom, stoner, sludge, black, goregrind...)

324 - Boutoku No Taiyo

Birushanah - Akai Yami

Boris - Amplifier Worship* and Boris at Last -Feedbacker-**

Butcher ABC - Butchered at Birth Day

Catasexual Urge Motivation - The Encyclopedia of Serial Murders**

Church of Misery - Houses of the Unholy*

Chuugakuseikanoke - Musume Sensochu

Corrupted - El mundo frio*

Endless Dismal Moan - Endless Dismal Moan

Flagitious Idiosyncrasy in the Dilapidation - Flagitious Idiosyncrasy in the Dilapidation

Gastunk - Deadsong

Maggoty Corpse - Baptisma

Ryokuchi - Shinsho

Sabbat - The Dwelling

Sigh - Hangman's Hymn

Swarrrm - Against Again

Valkylie - Lamia Shock!**

Velle Witch - Blood Noblewoman

Zenocide - Zenocide

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E. MATH AND POST ROCK

About Tess - Beautiful

Envy - A Dead Sinking Story

Jizue - Bookshelf*

LITE - Phantasia
 Mono - Hymn to the Immortal Wind*

Mono & World's End Girlfriend - Palmless Prayer / Mass Murder Refrain**

Oono Yuuki

qpd - nicapono

Sajjanu - Pechiku!!*

te' - If That Is What Is Being Thought, Liberated Sound Talks the Depth of Musical World.*

the cabs -

Toe - Book About My Idle Plot on Vague Anxiety**

tricot - THE*

Uchu Conbini - Somaru Oto wo Kakunin Shitara

Unkie - the Price of Fame

Worlds End Girlfriend - Hurtbreak Wonderland

Yodaka - Yodaka

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F. SHOEGAZE AND DREAM POP

Burrrn - Blaze Down His Way Like the Space Show

Cruyff in the Bedroom - Hikarihimawari*

Dive - Early Sonic June

Flipper's Guitar - Aquamarine

Lemon's Chair - I Hate? I Hope?

Luminous Orange - Drop You Vivid Colours**

My Dead Girlfriend - ixtab*

Oeil - Urban Twilight

pasteboard - Glitter

Pastel Blue - Blue Demos*

Sugar Plant - After After Hours

Tokyo Shoegazer - Crystallize*

PSYCHEDELIC
A. PSYCH ROCK

Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - La Nvia**

Angel'in Heavy Syrup - Angel'in Heavy Syrup IV*

Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun* and Super

Datetenryu - 1971

Flied Egg - Goodbye

Flower Travellin Band - Satori*

Food Brain - Bansan (Social Gathering)

Fushitsusha - Live 1 (1989)**

High Rise - Live* and II

J.A. Ceasar - Kokky Junreika and Denen Ni Shisu

Kousokuya - 1st and Echoes From Deep Underground

Les Rallizes Dnuds - 77 Live**

Los Doroncos / Majutsu no Niwa - Live at Showboat 2012

Love Live Life + One - Love Will Make a Better You**

Magical Power Mako - Super Record** and s/t

Minami Deutsch - Minami Deutsch

Musica Transonic - Musica Transonic

Ohkami No Jikan - Mort Nuit

Rovo - Tonic 2001

Shizuka - Persona in Heaven**

Splendor Mystic Solis - Heavy Acid Blowout Tension

Strawberry Path - When the Raven Has Come to the Earth

Suishou No Fune - Prayer for Chibi

Sundays & Cybele - Gypsy House

Up-Tight - Five Psychedelic Pieces

Various Artists - Ongaku 70: Vintage Psychedelia in Japan

 Various Artists - Tokyo Flashback 1

White Heaven - Electric Cool Acid** and Out

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B. PSYCH FOLK ROCK

Ai Aso - Chamomile Pool*

Ghost - Second Time Around and Hypnotic Underworld*

Kikagaku Moyo - Kikagaku Moyo

Les Rallizes Dnuds - Mizutani**

LSD March - Under Milk Wood*

Masato Minami - The Tropics

Michio Kurihara - Sunset Notes

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C. PSYCH POP

Hallelujahs - Niku o Kuraite Chikai o Tateyo

Jacks - Vacant World*

Katsurei - Yuretsuzukeru**

OOIOO - Taiga*

Rashinban - Rago

ELECTRONIC GENERAL (ambient, glitch pop...)

Chihei Hatakeyama - Minima Moralia

Daisuke Tanabe (with Kidkanevil) - Kidsuke

De De Mouse - Tide of Stars

Geskia! - Silent 77

Hiroshi Yoshimura - Music for Nine Post Cards*

Isao Tomita - Snowflakes Are Dancing*

Kitaro - Silk Road

Logic System - Logic

N-qia - Audio Illustrations

Riuichi Sakamoto - B-2 Unit

Sab - Crystallization

Shuta Hasunuma - OK Bamboo

Susumu Yokota - Sakura

Sawako - Bitter Sweet

Tetsu Inoue - Ambiant Otaku*

Wonderland Falling Yesterday - Enchanted Landscape Escape*

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A. DANCE MUSIC (techno, house, big beat, juke...)

34423 - Tough and Tender

Ametsub - The Nothings of the North

Aoki Takamasa - Indigo Rose

AZUpubschool - Lovely Her Lips EP

Captain Funk - Songs Of The Siren**

Denki Groove - A*

Hironori Takahashi - Gaia's Archetype*

Hosome - New Fascio

Jazztronik - Samurai

Ken Ishii - Jelly Tones*

Metome/Takahiro Uchibori - Cloud EP

Mondo Grosso - MG4

Shinichi Osawa - The One

Takaaki Itoh - Nightmare Continues

Various Artists - Japanese Juke & Footworks Compilation**

Various Artists Listen Up

Various Artists - MAJOR FORCE THE ORIGINAL ART-FORM IJ

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B. EXPERIMENTAL (glitch, microsound,...)

*0 - [0,0,0]**

Bisk - Strange or Funny Ha Ha?**

DJ Pica Pica Pica - Planetary Natural Love Gas Webbin' 199999**

Ikue Mori - Hex Kitchen

Juke/19 - Ninety-Seven Circles**

Kimitaka Matsumae - You Are The Fox 1

Ryoji Ikeda - Dataplex*

Susumu Hirasawa - Technique of Relief*

Tolerance - Divin**

Yoshihide Otomo - Otomo + Mao

HIP HOP (rap, instrumental hip hop, jazz hop, pop rap...)

Audio Sports - Era of Glittering Gas

Buddha Brand - **

Crue-L Grand Orchestra

DJ Honda - HII

DJ Krush - Jaku and Strictly Turntablized*

group_inou - _*

Halcali - Halcali Bacon*

Kenichiro Nishihara - Humming Jazz

Kimidori - Kimidori

Moe and Ghosts -

Nanorunamonai - Melhentrips

Nujabes - Metaphorical Music*

PSG - David

Rhymester- Egotopia
Rip Slyme - Good Job!**

Scha Dara Parr - Wild Fancy Alliance

Seiko Ito - Mess/Age

Shing02 - Waikyoku

STUDIO75

Y.I.M

JAZZ GENERAL (vocal, modal, hard bop, post-bop, swing, tango nuevo, chamber jazz...)

Chiemi Eri - Come on-a My House / Tennessee Waltz**

EGO-WRAPPIN' - Night Food*

Gato Libre - Shiro

George Ohtsuka - Maracaibo Cornpone

Hino Kikuchi Quintet - Hino=Kikuchi Quintet

Koichi Sugii - Japanese Jazz & Salon Music, Vol. 3: 1936-1941**

Mama!milk - Gala de Caras

Matumoto Hiroshi & Ichikawa Hideo Quartet - Megalopolis

Mouse On the Keys - An Anxious Object*

Ryo Fukui - Scenery*

Seigen Ono - The Green Chinese Table

Shizuko Kasagi - :

Sleepwalker - The Voyage

Soil & Pimp Sessions - Pimp Master*

Takashi Matsunaga - Storm Zone

Takeo Moriyama Quartet - My Dear

Utako Matsushima - La Tanguista

Various Artists - Japanese Jazz 1950s1980s**

Various Artists - Nobukazu Takemura Collection (Three Blind Mice Issue)

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A. FREE AND AVANT GARDE JAZZ

 Arthur Doyle, Takashi Mizutani & Sabu Toyozumi - Live in Japan, 1997

Compostela - Wadachi

Hozan Yamamoto - Silver World*

Kaoru Abe - Winter 1972*

Kaoru Abe, Motoharu Yoshizawa, Toshinori Kondo & Derek Bailey - Aida's Call

Kohsuke Mine - Daguri

Masahiko Satoh & Sound Breakers - Amalgamation

Masahiko Togashi - Guild for Human Music**

Masami Shinoda - Tokyo Chin Don Vol.1**

Masayuki Takayanagi - Eclipse

Masayuki Takayanagi & Kaoru Abe - Mass Projection*

Mototeru Takagi Trio - Mosura Freight!

Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Ensemble - Dreams

Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Orchestra - ONJO

Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Quintet - Tails Out

Sabu Toyozumi - Sabu: Message to Chicago

Sakata Sextet - Trauma

Satoko Fujii - Kitsune-Bi

Seikatsu Kojyo Iinkai - This Is Music Is This!?**

Shoji Aketagawa trio + Masuko Nakamura and Kazutoki Umezu - Shudan seikatsu

Tamio Shiraishi - Chikatetsu

The Freedom Unity - Down by the Naked City

Yosuke Yamashita Trio - Chiasma**

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B. JAZZ FUSION AND JAZZ ROCK

Casiopea - Casiopea*

Himiko Kikuchi -All Right*

 Hiromi - Time Control

Kazumi Watanabe - The Spice of Life

Kazutoki Umezu - Eclecticism*

Kenso - Yume No Oka

Lalena - Lalena

Machine and The Synergetic Nuts - Leap Second Neutral*

Minoru Muraoka - Osorezan

Mitsuru Sutoh - Favor of My Friends 2003

Mongol - Doppler 444

Resonance Vox - Resonance Vox

Shigeo Sekito - Shigeo Sekito Special Sound Series Vol.2

Terumasa Hino - Hi-Nology

Teruo Nakamura - Unicorn**

Toshiyuki Miyama & His New Herd: Masahiko Sato - Yamataifu

Toshiaki Yokota & Primitive Community - Primitive Community**

IMPROVISATION (free improvisation, drone, EAI...)

Agencement - Viosphere**

Ahousen - Ahousen

Baroque Bordello - 1st Trip

Black Stage - Untitled

Bject - Bject**

Chie Mukai - Three Pieces, Solo Improvisations

Hayashi, Otomo & Toyozumi - The Crushed Pellet

Junko & Masayoshi Urabe - Swing Low, Sweet Silence

Imai Kazuo Trio - Blood

Kazuhisa Uchihashi - Guitar Solo

Keiji Haino - I Said, This Is the Son of Nihilism*, and Watashi dake?

Keiji Haino & Michihiro Sato - Tayutayuto Tadayoitamae Kono Furue

Keiji Haino & Sitaar Tah! - Animamima

Kuwayama-Kijima - 01.06.16

Lethe - Catastrophe Point #5

Makoto Oshiro - Phenomenal World

Marginal Consort - Collective Improvisation

Maru Sankaku Shikaku - Maru Sankaku Shikaku

Masayuki Takayanagi - Action Direct**

Masayuki Takayanagi and the New Direction Unit - April Is the Cruellest Month

Motoharu Yoshizawa - Empty Hats

Sabu Orimo - Susabu

Sabu Toyozumi & EXIAS-J - Son's Scapegoat

Shoji Aketagawa, Kan Mikami, & Toshiaki Ishizuka - Daikanjyo*

Soldier Garage - Akai Hoshi

Taj Mahal Travellers - July 15, 1972**

Takehisa Kosugi - Catch Wave

Tatsuya Nakatani - Abiogenesis

Teiji Furuhashi / Dumb Type - 1985-1994

Tetragrammaton - Elegy for Native Tongues

Tetsu Saitoh - Stone Out

The Fifth Column - The Middle Fifth Column: Suspect Music 1981-1990

Various Artists - Improvised Music From Japan

Yoshi Wada - Earth Horns With Electronic Drone and Lament for the Rise and Fall of the Elephantine
Crocodile

Duo - 1983.3

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A. ONKYO

Intonarumori Orchestra - Intonarumori Orchestra

I.S.O. - I.S.O.**
 Masahiko Okura / Gnter Mller / Taku Sugimoto / Otomo Yoshihige - Metal Tastes Like Orange

Off-cells - 60/40

Sachiko M - Derive

Sachiko M, Toshimaru Nakamura & Otomo Yoshihide - Good Morning Good Night*

Taku Sugimoto - Opposite

Taku Sugimoto & Moe Kamura - Live in Saritote**

Taku Unami / Takahiro Kawaguchi - Teatro Assente

Toshimaru Nakamura - No-Input Mixing Board*

Various Artists - Improvised Music From Japan

Yoshimitsu Ichiraku, Kazushige Kinoshita & Taku Unami - Cymbal Violin Lapsteel

NOISE (harsh noise, drone, industrial, power noise, power electronics...)

Aube - Cardiac Strain

BusRatch - Memorium**

C.C.C.C. - Amplified Crystal and Rocket Shrine

Contagious Orgasm - Ripple

Dissecting Table - Life

Gaze Campaign - Gestalt Bruise

Gomikawa Fumio - Return of Gomikawa Fumio

Government Alpha - Snakes and Ladders

GRIM - Folk Music**

Guilty Connector - Beats, Noise, and Life.

Hanatarash - 3: William Bennett Has No Dick*

Hijokaidan - Zroku no Kiby*, Romance, and The Noise box set

Incapacitants - As Loud as Possible*

Jazz Hijokaidan - Made in Japan: Live at Shinjuku Pit Inn, 9th April 2012**

K2 - Metal Dysplasia and Autopsy Soundtrakks

Kazumoto Endo - While You Were Out*

Keiji Haino - "C'est parfait" endoctrin tu tombes la tte...** and Milky Way**
Kenji Siratori - Melancholic Lobotomy

Killer Bug - Beyond the Valley of the Tapes

Kiyoshi Mizutani - Yokosawa-iri

Masonna - Ejaculation Generater

MAZK - Sound Pressure Level

Merzbow - Venereology and Akasha Gulva

Mo*Te - Life in a Peaceful New World

M.S.B.R. - Collapseland

Nerve Net Noise - Meteor Circuit

Tetsuo Furudate - Othello as Noise Opera

Toukaseibunshi - Meta-Inorganicmatter / Meta-Newlon

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A. NOISE ROCK

Absolut Null Punkt - Metacompound

Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - Electric Heavyland*

Aural Fit - II

Fushitsusha - Hisou / Pathtique*

Ground Zero - Consume Red**

High Rise - Psychedelic Speed Freaks

Keiji Haino & KK Null - Mamono

The Gerogerigegege - Tokyo Anal Dynamite* and Hotel Ultra**

UFO or Die - Cassettetape Superstar

Xinlisupreme - Tomorrow Never Comes

Mainliner - Mellow Out*

AVANT GARDE (contemporary classical, Japanese classical, tape Music, musique concrte, field
recordings, lowercase...)

Aki Onda - Ancient & Modern (Cassette Memories Vol. 1)

Aki Takahashi Piano Space**

Akio Suzuki - Odds and Ends and K7 Box

Akira Ifukube - Kushiro Marshland

Haco & Toshiya Tsunoda - TramVibration**

Hasegawa-Shizuo - Lift

Hitoshi Kojo - Ezo

Joji Yuasa - Obscure Tape Music Of Japan Vol.1: Aoi No Ue*

Kaori Muraji - Transformations

Kazuhito Yamashita - Pictures at an Exhibition & The Firebird Suite

Kuniharu Akiyama - Obscure Tape Music of Japan Vol. 6 Tape Works of Kuniharu Akiyama 1

Midori - Encore!

Miki Yui - Silence Resounding

Mitsuko Uchida - 12 tudes

Nejiko Suwa - Suwa Nejiko no Geijutsu

Ryo Noda - Mai and his Improvisation series

Ryoko Akama - Code of Silence

Teiji Ito - Tenno

Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra - Japanese Orchestral Favourites: Ifukube, Akutagawa, Toyama*

Toru Takemitsu - Film Music by Toru Takemitsu

Toshio Hosokawa - Koto-uta; Voyage I; Konzert fr Saxophon und Orchester; Ferne-Landschaft II**

Toshiya Tsunoda - Extract From Field Recording Archive #3: Solid Vibration

Toshi Ichiyanagi - Opera Yokoo Tadanori wo utau

Toshi Ichiyanagi / Maki Ishii - Music for Living Process / Cho-Etsu

Yran - Montparnasse**

Yuji Takahashi - Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano*

SOUNDTRACKS

Akira Yamaoka - Silent Hill 2: Original Soundtrack

Choro Club - Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou Quiet Country Cafe Original Soundtrack
Chu Ishikawa - Tetsuo

Der Eisenrost - Armored Weapon

Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Symphonic Suite AKIRA**

Joe Hisaishi - Spirited Away*

Junichi Masuda - GameBoy Pokmon no Sound ga Marugoto Itte, Asoberu CD

Keiichi Suzuki & Hirokazu Tanaka - Mother 2

Koji Kondo - The Legend of Zelda: 25th Anniversary, Super Mario Galaxy, and Super Mario World 2:
Yoshi's Island**

Laugh & Peace - Vib-Ribbon**

Manabu Namiki - Battle Garegga

Masaki Kurihara - Azumanga Daioh Original Soundtrack Vol. 1

Masaru Sato - Yojimbo

Motoi Sakuraba - Shining the Holy Ark

Osamu Sato - LSD and Remixes

Shiro Sagisu - Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion

Soichi Terada - Ape Escape Originape Soundtracks

Various Artists - Katamari Fortissimo Damacy*

Various Artists - Metroid Prime Soundtrack

Yasunori Mitsuda - Chrono Trigger: The Brink of Time

Yoshihide Otomo - Yoshihide Otomo Plays the Music of Takeo Yamashita**

Yoshihiro Kanno - Angel's Egg Original Soundtrack

MISC.

Caccinica - Shichimenchou (dark cabaret)

Dry & Heavy - Full Contact (dub)

Hanadensha - Astral Pigmy Wave (ambient dub)

KOR=GIRL - KOR=GIRL I (???)

Mkwaju Ensemble - KI-Motion (minimalism/folk)

Nijiumu - Era of Sad Wings (drone/dark ambient something)

Oki Dub Ainu Band - Oki Dub Ainu Band (dub/folk hybrid)

Shu~Furuma~Ju - 1 (???)

Tokyo Happy Coats (girl group?)

Usagi no Heitai wa Taiki - (chiptune/pop)

Various Artists - Japan Goes Latin (Calypso, Chachach, Mambo)

Willy Okiyama - Anthology: King of Yodel Vol. 1 (country yodel)**

Yann Tomita - Music for Living Sound** (tape experiment pop)

Yximalloo - Techno Shrine Choir (crazy 'electronic' mess)

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v. 47.00 (Not regularly updated anymore; sorry)

You may also be interested in these other things I do

http://imgur.com/JyjvzEN

Recommended Chinese Music

http://pastebin.com/d5Gh3CCt

Recommended Korean Music

http://pastebin.com/Rc42s2KW

Q: WHERE TO BUY?

discogs, yahoo auctions, cdjapan, rakuten, amazon japan, bandcamp, direct from the label, etc.

Q: WHERE TO DOWNLOAD?

jpddl, jpopsuki, slsk, rutracker, what.cd, pirate bay, and by searching the 4chan /mu/ archive

also you might wanna check out my Japanese Music Uploads

https://mega.co.nz/#F!0oBQQAZJ!HzoFhLUplfK8-OXS-p62lA

https://mega.co.nz/#F!sc1z2TZK!E0ajFLcWX-qbb1AtlZ0ueg

http://pastebin.com/wtBDQFDC
Q: RECOMMENDED RESOURCES?

RYM, and Discogs are good overall resources because they allow you to explore labels, discographies,
charts and more. But you should also consider looking at the following websites on your own.

http://www001.upp.so-net.ne.jp/tsuribe/CDs/jpope.html (pop/popular music)

http://www.artskool.biz/jem/index.html (various electronic/synth)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Japanese_composers

http://www.idollica.com/ (idol/J-pop)

https://japanrockology.wordpress.com/ (rock)

http://park10.wakwak.com/~techno/ (techno pops/new wave, etc.)

http://park11.wakwak.com/~rock-daigaku/ (rock)

http://reryo.blog98.fc2.com/ (techno pops)

http://vacatono.flop.jp/dbx/main.php

http://www.reddit.com/r/Japaneseunderground (various 'experimental')

http://asoftlysleepingrose.blogspot.com/

http://aghwee.blogspot.co.uk/ (synthpop, new wave, pop, etc)

http://habitofsex.blogspot.com/

http://habitofsex.tumblr.com/

http://voodoovault.blogspot.com/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCc4LH1GieEaNKuW2zmKfLHQ (acoustic folk pop)

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM2CmAZWoy-ia5MFUHbAkAg (experimental/other)