Nihon No Wave, by Various Artists

Nihon No Wave

by Various Artists

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Max Fleetwood is it possible/fair to pick a favourite from this when every track is so perfect? maybe I'll change the "favourite track" every day to suit my mood. Favorite track: Digital Wave.

Niton Decay Weird and familiar at the same time. Messing with 80's sounds with a different approach. Lovely. The Lady singing "Midnight Boy, Midnight Dreaming" makes me laugh so hard each time... Favorite track: Yakō Shōnen.

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1.	Ricochet - Ningyo Touge 03:17	buy track
2.	Ricochet - Blue Melody 05:26
3.	C. Memi - Ishin-Denshin 05:28	buy track
4.	C. Memi - Hitojichi 03:30	buy track
5.	C. Memi + Neo Matisse - Dream's Dream 05:30	buy track
6.	Harumi Shimada - Yakō Shōnen 03:45	buy track
7.	Harumi Shimada - Midnight Boy 04:53	buy track
8.	D.R.Y. Project - Digital Wave 05:55	buy track
9.	D.R.Y. Project - Requiem For... 02:20	buy track
10.	Neo Museum - Area 05:09	buy track
11.	Neo Museum - Ethno-Music 02:21	buy track
12.	Dendö Marionette - Alchemist 03:36	buy track
13.	Dendö Marionette - Dendö Marionette 04:25	buy track
14.	Anima - Grey City 03:02	buy track
15.	Anima - Not Only One 04:14	buy track
16.	Mikan Mukku - Kan 02:56	buy track
17.	Mikan Mukku - Chin Dan 02:50	buy track
18.	Shinobu - Earth 03:09	buy track
19.	Shinobu - Ceramic Love 03:23	buy track

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Japan is a unique land for countless reasons and the Japanese electronic music has always been something very special. During the late 70s and early 80s a bunch of projects, bands and small record labels, concentrated mostly in Tokyo and Osaka, created electronic music influenced by the post-punk, new wave and experimental scene coming from Europe and North America. All these artists and musicians tried to emulate their influences to create something on their own following the DIY ethic and using the technology they had at their fingertips. A good part of this “Nippon-wave" scene was kept hermetic and secret from the rest of world and only a few have had the chance to discover it through some cassettes, flexi-discs and a few records released on private labels with absolute no distribution out of Japan. Some of these lost "minimal-synth-wave” gems have been rescued and now compiled on "Nihon No Wave”.

Artwork prepared with photos by Stefan Alt (Ant-Zen) and all audio has been restored from the original masters, some vinyl records and tapes. Everything with kindly permission of the original artists.

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