Black Crows Cyborg
** Barbed Wire Swimming Pool splatter vinyl. LP with super deluxe embossed cover with mini poster ** The skylines of Tokyo and New York City are impenetrable. On the streets it is cold - the ravens have blocked out the sun. The barbed chicken wire that surrounds the cities wave scraps of plastic shreds of circuit boards like surrender flags. Ravens have become the society, they are now the rulers. Black Crows Cyborg is the first collaboration from noise titans Merzbow and Prurient. With more tha…
Residue
** Last copies, sold-out at source. Edition of 100 hand-numbered copies. Every copy is slightly different. Comes with a digital DL code. Silk screen print outersleeve ** Edition Zeroso is pleased to announce the first full length release from Japanese producer/live sound engineer Nobuki Nishiyama. "Residue" is the product of erroneous usages and settings of acoustic devices. Phasal disarray, feedback, interference: none of these can be accurately produced on stage through the performers' intenti…
Kaze ga Kanjō o Hakobu. Subete ga Kawarudarou
“Kaze ga kanjō o hakobu. Subete ga kawarudarou” is Tokyo-based musician Fuantei’s debut and first album for 901 Editions. The music describes ephemeral, everyday moments that evoke deep and suspended emotional states. A frivolous and trivial time fragment made memory, the embrace and realisation of change, the reverberating lights of a habitual sunset.
風が感情を運ぶ。すべてが変わるだろうKaze ga kanjō o hakobu. Subete ga kawarudarou.The wind carries emotions. Everything will change.
Superscience
901 Editions is proud to announce the latest release by Japan’s Minamo, the duo formed by Tetsuro Yasunaga and Keiichi Sugimoto. "Superscience" follows their recent collaboration with Moskitoo "Superstition", released by 12k in April, 2020. The work was recorded at Ochiai Soup in Tokyo on May 11th of 2019 as part of the label’s showcase 9+1=0. This live format, which embodies the notion of imperfection, irony riddled in its name, has been presented in Rome, Milan, and London. These showcases com…
Heisei No Oto - Japanese Left-field Pop From The CD Age 1989-1996
Music From Memory are excited to announce a special compilation that they’ve been working on for some time now; MFM053 – VA – Heisei No Oto – Japanese Left-field Pop From The CD Age (1989-1996). Compiled by long-time friends of the label, Eiji Taniguchi and Norio Sato, Heisei No Oto delves into a world of music released almost exclusively on CD and brings together a fascinating selection of discoveries from a little known and overlooked part of Japan’s musical history. The last ten or so years h…
Emerald Tablet / Echoes
Another superb mystic and meditative harmonics originally release by ALM and now fully reissued.
Mandala Trilogy +1
Buddhist chant vocalization and infinity ambient abyss transform into superb mystic and meditative harmonics
Portray Heads
While remaining predominantly unknown except amongst die-hard collectors, Portray Heads has proven to be one of the best kept secrets of the Japanese electronic underground. Tohru Tomita (冨田徹) formed Portray Heads in 1984 in Matsuyama City, the capital of Shikoku Island, with fellow band members Ayumi Tokunaga (徳永あゆみ) and Mikiharu Doi (土居幹治), just after dissolving his solo bedroom project Onanie Bazooka. The trio entered the studio in August that same year and recorded several songs. Two songs f…
Hidari Ude No Yume
Ryuichi Sakamoto's third solo album "Hidari Ude No Yume" (Left Handed Dream) was originally released in 1981 on the Alfa label. Save for a small-scale Dutch vinyl release in 1981, it is the first time the album's original Japanese edition is released outside of Japan (the European release on Epic Records included significantly different tracks and mixes). Newly remastered from the original tapes by renowned engineer Bernie Grundman, this LP edition comes with original artwork featuring a striki…
Products Unconscious
**Limited, numbered edition of 50 copies. Comes in a han made velvet bag holding the cassette, an envelope with 4 prints and a pair of white, black or pink lace panties.** "I'm Hiroshi and I like beer" were the first words Hiroshi Hashimoto spoke to me when I picked him up from an airport in 2006. For the next two weeks we travelled together in an old car I borrowed from my parents. Just like his records it became an interesting and rewarding journey with unpredictable twists and turns. Hiroshi …
Bricolage Archive 2, Disc 4: UN/expressionism_Part 3
In process of stocking - **first edition of 100 copies** The second release from the archive of the series “Bricolage”, DJ event by music critic Agi Yuzuru who passed away in October 2018.The latest “cutting edge music” was transformed by Agi’s original interpretation. This is part of a series of four discs recorded at four events in 2014. Mastering by Kentaro Hayashi, highly appreciated by Agi in his later years. In outer bag with the same file hole as the 0g series.
Bricolage Archive 2, Disc 3: Brutalism
In process of stocking - **first edition of 100 copies** The second release from the archive of the series “Bricolage”, DJ event by music critic Agi Yuzuru who passed away in October 2018.The latest “cutting edge music” was transformed by Agi’s original interpretation. This is part of a series of four discs recorded at four events in 2014. Mastering by Kentaro Hayashi, highly appreciated by Agi in his later years. In outer bag with the same file hole as the 0g series.
Bricolage Archive 2, Disc 2: Contemporary Modern Music
In process of stocking - **first edition of 100 copies** The second release from the archive of the series “Bricolage”, DJ event by music critic Agi Yuzuru who passed away in October 2018.The latest “cutting edge music” was transformed by Agi’s original interpretation. This is part of a series of four discs recorded at four events in 2014. Mastering by Kentaro Hayashi, highly appreciated by Agi in his later years. In outer bag with the same file hole as the 0g series.
Bricolage Archive 2, Disc 1: The Stranger Day 1
In process of stocking - **first edition of 100 copies** The second release from the archive of the series “Bricolage”, DJ event by music critic Agi Yuzuru who passed away in October 2018.The latest “cutting edge music” was transformed by Agi’s original interpretation. This is part of a series of four discs recorded at four events in 2014. Mastering by Kentaro Hayashi, highly appreciated by Agi in his later years. In outer bag with the same file hole as the 0g series.
0g Night: Do Bloom in the Silence - Test I: i. a. m. y. o.
Plexi-glass special cover. Edition of 100. This CD was released at the publishing event of "0g_02", "0g Night: Do Bloom in the Silence". It contains tracks by Incredible Plexi-Glass coverMadegg, Yui Onodera, Isolate Line, Akihiko Matsumoto, and Arms selected by Agi Yuzuru.Tracklist:01. Madegg "Eyes (premastering)"02. Yui Onodera "Mon"03. Isolate Line "Astral"04. Isolate Line "Mantra"05. Akihiko Matsumoto "ReModel06. Arms "Saints #1"07. Arms "Saints #2"08. Arms "Saints #3"
#Notes of Forestry
**CD version, to be released on 29.05.2020** "WRWTFWW Records is very happy to announce the official reissue of Motohiko Hamase’s remarkable ambient / environmental / minimalism project #Notes of Forestry, available for the first time since 1988. The album is sourced from original masters and available on vinyl and CD with liner notes from the artist. This marks the third release from the Esplanade Series which focuses on the works of Yoshio Ojima, Motohiko Hamase and Satsuki Shibano.One of the …
Technodrome
**CD version, to be released on 29.05.2020** "WRWTFWW Records is very happy to announce the official reissue of Motohiko Hamase’s astounding ambient house album Technodrome (1993). The album is sourced from original masters and available on vinyl for the first time ever as well as on CD. It comes with liner notes from the artist. This marks the fourth release from the Esplanade Series which focuses on the works of Yoshio Ojima, Motohiko Hamase and Satsuki Shibano.Inspired by John Cage, Jon Hasse…
Oto No Wa: Selected Sounds of Japan 1988-2018
"For the fifth entry in our Collector’s Series we enlist the skills of Japan-based musical connoisseurs, Ken Hidaka, Max Essa, and Dr. Rob. Their compilation Oto No Wa sets out to map the evolution of chilled Japanese sounds across 3 decades. Collecting 14 tracks, produced by a wide range of artists. From ambient pioneers to dance-floor veterans. Roping in 9-piece reggae band, Little Tempo, percussionist Kotani Kazuya, and organic, psychedelic collective, Olololop.Beginning in the late 1980s, th…
Bird Caged: Birdfriend Archives
Very sick comp of new Japanese music - selected by a Japanese person, released on a Japanese label. Enter a world unknown!
Radiation Misa (1981)
2013 release. CD reissue of a cult LP from a early 80s weird Japanese oddity, an amalgam of synthesizer and vocoder processed vocals reciting Missa Ordinarum (!) dusted with bright electronic sound and plenty of reverb. Includes a 16-page booklet with Latin lyrics and Japanese translations, a discussion between Shigeaki Saegusa and Hiroyuki Namba, and liner notes by Shigeaki Saegusa and Hiroyuki Namba