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

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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