DD. Records was, and remains still, an inimitable insight into a treasure trove of astonishing talent from a unique and semi-hermetic society of musicians in Japan's early 80's DIY scene. In the space of just five years, the label released 222 cassettes of idiosyncratic, wilfully strange, and addictively bold experimental music from a small and tightly bound group of friends and collaborators. This music was almost always recorded at home and released on a short run of cassettes with homemade Xeroxed artwork (that was only distributed outside Japan by a single record store in the US). And - true to the label's creative remit - could be anything from avant-punk, experimental sound collage, early computer / MIDI programming, noise-pop songwriting, freaked-out ambient or countless other genre coinages found only here in DD. Records' singular canon.
Words and Mix by James Vella / A Lily
