general Kankyo Ongaku / '80s Japanese Ambient - Hiroshi Yoshimura, Midori Takada, Satoshi Ashikawa, Yoshio Ojima, Inoyama Land

Also how sick is Yoshimura's Wet Land?

Spencer's mixes tipped me to so many great albums. Big debt owing to him.

I picked up the Inoyama Land Commissions set recently, it's great

Missing this for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xdi1oqK-5U

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this was the first track on the comp that really blew my mind. I listened to the full album (it's hard to find because it's actually NOT Joe Hisashi, but rather a band called "Wonder City Orchestra" for which Hisashi was the synth guy for) and it's nothing like this, it's kind of an odd electrofunk album with a lot of vocals on it. The context of the track there vs. on this compilation is way different.

One nice discovery was the Interior album. For some reason it's oddly cheap, I was able to get a good copy for about 10 bucks. This is my favorite track from it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYRK2Z0-2Mg

Of the albums from here I know, most of them are pretty unlike the track that was selected. That makes this comp even cooler IMO, since it stands as its own thing.

yeah the interior album was released on windham hill in the US, surprised I don’t see it more often

hot beach owns

Some of you might enjoy this mix which crosses over into these sounds in parts - “Polyphonic Cosmos (Japanese Technopop and Synthscapes 1979 - 85)"

https://www.discogs.com/release/18305380-JD-Twitch-Polyphonic-Cosmos

D/L link - https://spaces.hightail.com/receive/XcPZ8ZCIeN

Thanks for the link to the tape, stirmonster!

One of the highlights of lockdown was exploring and starting to catalogue this stuff. I have a Spotify playlist, with the dumb title Japanbient: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2Vx4Vo2u531byq3wSmurPL?si=9baf74909e6646f0

xp love that one so much stir

Also: a tilt at a chronological, semi-comprehensive playlist from Yoshimura's albums:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVamTFSGhoX71M5IR1_iseycMrBOKmBqS

Should be asleep made a really nice mock compilation of some deep cuts recently, well worth a look https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgTm1GDPQOI

loving the mix Stirmonster, thx!

https://wereleasewhateverthefuckwewantrecords.bandcamp.com/album/cutting-branches-for-a-temporary-shelter
New Midori Takada album!

Awesome! Caught her in Melbourne recently is she was in fine form.

Really enjoying this, not a big surprise as I've been listening to a lot of mbira music.

great video of Midori Takada in action, what a master

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4Ld9--WnTc

I used to do this shit in the kitchen when I was 9. in my mind it sounded like this too.

Lotsa expensive Japan/European vinyl reissues of this stuff. Wish there was more American and compact disc love