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- Various Artists, JD Twitch
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- Polyphonic Cosmos: Sonic Innovations In Japan (1980-1986) (Compiled By JD Twitch)
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- Cease & Desist
- Catalogue Number
- C&D002
- Release Date
- July 8, 2022
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Optimo music head JD Twitch has long been obsessed on the music of Japan. Having visited many times over to DJ, the man has amassed quite a collection from tirelessly digging in local record stores. Inspired by the sounds he’s heard, Twitch has spent the last 8 years compiling Polyphonic Cosmos, a would-be beginner’s guide to the sounds of the island in the early-to-mid 1980s. Japan’s explosion of music technology combined with sudden ease of access to the western world led to sonic experiments that felt simultaneously in conversation with the pop zeitgeist and in an orbit all their own. Tracks like Pecker’s ‘Sha La La’ could slot well with the European synth pop of the era, but tracks like Earthling’s ‘You Go On Natural’ stretch back a bit further. The song’s sturdy guitar strum and casual vocals are certainly indebted to Lou Reed’s urban didacticism, but the whirlpools of synth giving those simple chords texture are purely Japanese.
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Crow
Yasuaki Shimizu
4:45
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Tropical Exposition
Hiroyuki Namba
3:28
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Your Dream
Masumi Hara
2:45
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M.U.S.I.C
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4:15
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Sha La La
Pecker
3:21
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Who Done It? (Part 2)
Hiroyuki Namba
4:03
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Exotic Dance
Imitation
6:02
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Db
EP-4
5:12
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Camera
Masumi Hara
5:21
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Ki-Ra-I
D-Day
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Cease & Desist
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- C&D001
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Experimental Pop and New Wave
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- Winter Sun / Fever Dream
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- Music From Memory
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- MFM067
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- August 2, 2024
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- Disciples
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- DISC23.75DL
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- April 9, 2024
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- Psychic Hotline
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- PSY040DIGITAL
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- March 29, 2024
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- Powders
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- CHMX016
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- September 20, 2023
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- Julia Holter
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- Something in the Room She Moves
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- Domino Recording Co
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- WIG506D
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- March 22, 2024
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- YO362DS
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- March 19, 2024
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- Kiss Goodbye
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- Cold Blow
- Catalogue Number
- BLOW16
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- March 8, 2024
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Minimal Wave, Post-punk and EBM
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- Matias Aguayo & The Desdemonas
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- Cold Fever
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- Crammed Discs
- Catalogue Number
- CRAM2794
- Release Date
- September 1, 2017
- 7″
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- Trax Test (Excerpts From The Modular Network 1981-1987)
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- Ecstatic
- Catalogue Number
- ELP030
- Release Date
- September 15, 2017
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- Fata Morgana
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- Berceuse Heroique
- Catalogue Number
- BH45
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- February 2, 2018
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- Simon Shreeve
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- Downwards
- Catalogue Number
- LIN070
- Release Date
- April 8, 2016
- EP
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- LSSN043
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- Perc & Passarella Death Squad
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- Passarella
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- PTRISING1
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- July 8, 2016
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1980s
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- Dome 2
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- Editions Mego
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- DOME2
- Release Date
- May 31, 2019
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- DOME1
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- March 29, 2019
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- Dome 3
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- DOME3
- Release Date
- October 4, 2019
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- Catalogue Number
- ICE07D
- Release Date
- February 23, 2024
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- Hiroshi Yoshimura
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- Temporal Drift
- Catalogue Number
- DRFT09
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- Catalogue Number
- ITELEX5
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- April 14, 2023
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- Catalogue Number
- LV7002
- Release Date
- April 20, 2018
- 7″