Heisei No Oto – Japanese Left-field Pop From The CD Age (1989-1996)
Various Artists
Heisei No Oto – Japanese Left-field Pop From The CD Age (1989-1996)
Boomkat Product Review:
MFM smoothly shift their frame of Japanese references to the CD era with a clutch of synthesiser jazz, ambient, and genteel Pop strokes including a bounty of Haruomi Hosono productions.
In the works for some years now, ‘Heisei No Oto’ corrals 14 leftfield Japanese pop charms created 1989-1996, charting a pivotal phase when Japan’s music market fully embraced the CD format over vinyl, and which also coincided with both the culmination of Japan’s rapid economic growth during the ‘80s, and the beginning of the Heisei era - marking the reign of Emperor Akihito until his abdication in 2019.
Compiled by MFM’s pals, Eji Taniguchi and Norio Sato of Osaka record stores Revelation Time and Rare Groove, respectively, and including nuggets picked by Chee Shimizu, the set spans those years in the wake of a wave of records that have resurfaced over the past decade thanks to YouTube algorithms; plunging deeper into the warm currents of post-new age and corporate ambient, taking in lilting home-grown jazz, ambient, and pop records of a rare, visionary calibre that have remained overlooked within and outside Japan.
Our ears are drawn to the quiescent FM fantasy of Jun Sato’s ‘Iorang’ at the front, and likewise to the tropical breeze of popstar Yosui Inoue’s ‘Pi Po Pa’, as well as the gossamer vocals and brooding wooze of ‘Nobody’ by Poison Girl Friend, or the steel drum sensuality of ‘Phlanged Vortex’ from Eiki Nonaka; but it’s plainly evident that Japan-o-philes and diggers of all stripes are going to be up to the gills in the good stuff here.
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Boomkat Product Review:
MFM smoothly shift their frame of Japanese references to the CD era with a clutch of synthesiser jazz, ambient, and genteel Pop strokes including a bounty of Haruomi Hosono productions.
In the works for some years now, ‘Heisei No Oto’ corrals 14 leftfield Japanese pop charms created 1989-1996, charting a pivotal phase when Japan’s music market fully embraced the CD format over vinyl, and which also coincided with both the culmination of Japan’s rapid economic growth during the ‘80s, and the beginning of the Heisei era - marking the reign of Emperor Akihito until his abdication in 2019.
Compiled by MFM’s pals, Eji Taniguchi and Norio Sato of Osaka record stores Revelation Time and Rare Groove, respectively, and including nuggets picked by Chee Shimizu, the set spans those years in the wake of a wave of records that have resurfaced over the past decade thanks to YouTube algorithms; plunging deeper into the warm currents of post-new age and corporate ambient, taking in lilting home-grown jazz, ambient, and pop records of a rare, visionary calibre that have remained overlooked within and outside Japan.
Our ears are drawn to the quiescent FM fantasy of Jun Sato’s ‘Iorang’ at the front, and likewise to the tropical breeze of popstar Yosui Inoue’s ‘Pi Po Pa’, as well as the gossamer vocals and brooding wooze of ‘Nobody’ by Poison Girl Friend, or the steel drum sensuality of ‘Phlanged Vortex’ from Eiki Nonaka; but it’s plainly evident that Japan-o-philes and diggers of all stripes are going to be up to the gills in the good stuff here.
Boomkat Product Review:
MFM smoothly shift their frame of Japanese references to the CD era with a clutch of synthesiser jazz, ambient, and genteel Pop strokes including a bounty of Haruomi Hosono productions.
In the works for some years now, ‘Heisei No Oto’ corrals 14 leftfield Japanese pop charms created 1989-1996, charting a pivotal phase when Japan’s music market fully embraced the CD format over vinyl, and which also coincided with both the culmination of Japan’s rapid economic growth during the ‘80s, and the beginning of the Heisei era - marking the reign of Emperor Akihito until his abdication in 2019.
Compiled by MFM’s pals, Eji Taniguchi and Norio Sato of Osaka record stores Revelation Time and Rare Groove, respectively, and including nuggets picked by Chee Shimizu, the set spans those years in the wake of a wave of records that have resurfaced over the past decade thanks to YouTube algorithms; plunging deeper into the warm currents of post-new age and corporate ambient, taking in lilting home-grown jazz, ambient, and pop records of a rare, visionary calibre that have remained overlooked within and outside Japan.
Our ears are drawn to the quiescent FM fantasy of Jun Sato’s ‘Iorang’ at the front, and likewise to the tropical breeze of popstar Yosui Inoue’s ‘Pi Po Pa’, as well as the gossamer vocals and brooding wooze of ‘Nobody’ by Poison Girl Friend, or the steel drum sensuality of ‘Phlanged Vortex’ from Eiki Nonaka; but it’s plainly evident that Japan-o-philes and diggers of all stripes are going to be up to the gills in the good stuff here.
Boomkat Product Review:
MFM smoothly shift their frame of Japanese references to the CD era with a clutch of synthesiser jazz, ambient, and genteel Pop strokes including a bounty of Haruomi Hosono productions.
In the works for some years now, ‘Heisei No Oto’ corrals 14 leftfield Japanese pop charms created 1989-1996, charting a pivotal phase when Japan’s music market fully embraced the CD format over vinyl, and which also coincided with both the culmination of Japan’s rapid economic growth during the ‘80s, and the beginning of the Heisei era - marking the reign of Emperor Akihito until his abdication in 2019.
Compiled by MFM’s pals, Eji Taniguchi and Norio Sato of Osaka record stores Revelation Time and Rare Groove, respectively, and including nuggets picked by Chee Shimizu, the set spans those years in the wake of a wave of records that have resurfaced over the past decade thanks to YouTube algorithms; plunging deeper into the warm currents of post-new age and corporate ambient, taking in lilting home-grown jazz, ambient, and pop records of a rare, visionary calibre that have remained overlooked within and outside Japan.
Our ears are drawn to the quiescent FM fantasy of Jun Sato’s ‘Iorang’ at the front, and likewise to the tropical breeze of popstar Yosui Inoue’s ‘Pi Po Pa’, as well as the gossamer vocals and brooding wooze of ‘Nobody’ by Poison Girl Friend, or the steel drum sensuality of ‘Phlanged Vortex’ from Eiki Nonaka; but it’s plainly evident that Japan-o-philes and diggers of all stripes are going to be up to the gills in the good stuff here.
2024 Re-press - includes liner notes by Chee Shimizu and artwork by Hagihara Takuya
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Boomkat Product Review:
MFM smoothly shift their frame of Japanese references to the CD era with a clutch of synthesiser jazz, ambient, and genteel Pop strokes including a bounty of Haruomi Hosono productions.
In the works for some years now, ‘Heisei No Oto’ corrals 14 leftfield Japanese pop charms created 1989-1996, charting a pivotal phase when Japan’s music market fully embraced the CD format over vinyl, and which also coincided with both the culmination of Japan’s rapid economic growth during the ‘80s, and the beginning of the Heisei era - marking the reign of Emperor Akihito until his abdication in 2019.
Compiled by MFM’s pals, Eji Taniguchi and Norio Sato of Osaka record stores Revelation Time and Rare Groove, respectively, and including nuggets picked by Chee Shimizu, the set spans those years in the wake of a wave of records that have resurfaced over the past decade thanks to YouTube algorithms; plunging deeper into the warm currents of post-new age and corporate ambient, taking in lilting home-grown jazz, ambient, and pop records of a rare, visionary calibre that have remained overlooked within and outside Japan.
Our ears are drawn to the quiescent FM fantasy of Jun Sato’s ‘Iorang’ at the front, and likewise to the tropical breeze of popstar Yosui Inoue’s ‘Pi Po Pa’, as well as the gossamer vocals and brooding wooze of ‘Nobody’ by Poison Girl Friend, or the steel drum sensuality of ‘Phlanged Vortex’ from Eiki Nonaka; but it’s plainly evident that Japan-o-philes and diggers of all stripes are going to be up to the gills in the good stuff here.
Includes liner notes by Chee Shimizu and artwork by Hagihara Takuya
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Boomkat Product Review:
MFM smoothly shift their frame of Japanese references to the CD era with a clutch of synthesiser jazz, ambient, and genteel Pop strokes including a bounty of Haruomi Hosono productions.
In the works for some years now, ‘Heisei No Oto’ corrals 14 leftfield Japanese pop charms created 1989-1996, charting a pivotal phase when Japan’s music market fully embraced the CD format over vinyl, and which also coincided with both the culmination of Japan’s rapid economic growth during the ‘80s, and the beginning of the Heisei era - marking the reign of Emperor Akihito until his abdication in 2019.
Compiled by MFM’s pals, Eji Taniguchi and Norio Sato of Osaka record stores Revelation Time and Rare Groove, respectively, and including nuggets picked by Chee Shimizu, the set spans those years in the wake of a wave of records that have resurfaced over the past decade thanks to YouTube algorithms; plunging deeper into the warm currents of post-new age and corporate ambient, taking in lilting home-grown jazz, ambient, and pop records of a rare, visionary calibre that have remained overlooked within and outside Japan.
Our ears are drawn to the quiescent FM fantasy of Jun Sato’s ‘Iorang’ at the front, and likewise to the tropical breeze of popstar Yosui Inoue’s ‘Pi Po Pa’, as well as the gossamer vocals and brooding wooze of ‘Nobody’ by Poison Girl Friend, or the steel drum sensuality of ‘Phlanged Vortex’ from Eiki Nonaka; but it’s plainly evident that Japan-o-philes and diggers of all stripes are going to be up to the gills in the good stuff here.
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