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Founded in 2001, EM Records from Osaka focusses on reissues of experimental and outsider music. The incredible back catalogue contains a wide range of styles, from Yoshi Wada and T.R.Mahalingam via Brenda Ray, John Cage and Finis Africae to Sam Moore, Sheriff Lindo, The Android Sisters and a number of archival Thai Pop releases.

 
"What have we here? 16 pieces of hard-to-classify music, created during the period 1994-2008, a cornucopia of playful, intelligent, questing and eminently listenable electronic music from Osaka-born artist Hyu, who released two albums on Nobukazu Takemura's Childisc ...
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EM1211DLP | EM RECORDS

"Intergenerational gene-splicing from EM. Roland P. Young's Isophonic Boogie Woogie, tripped-out minimalist spiritual free jazz from 1980 (previously reissued by EM), is here mutated, masticated and machined by Altz, renowned "organic electronicist" from Osaka. ...
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EM1084CD | EM RECORDS

"The poetry of the human voice encounters the magic of contemporary electronic musical technology. Heart, mind and spirit, conveyed by the word, are augmented and altered, enhanced and embraced, by electronic sound. "Air from Air" is a collaboration between Japanese ...
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EM1209LP | EM RECORDS

NTSKI - CALLA (LP)

"NTsKi. Nom de musique of Japan-based vocalist/songwriter/producer; pronounced n-t-s-k-i. "Calla" is her 2nd album, a unified statement of her musical vision at this point in her development, with all-new songs melding her breathy and intimate voice, singing in Japanese ...
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EM1210LP | EM RECORDS

"This is the 30th anniversary CD reissue of an amazing and all-encompassing album by American composer and sound artist David Dunn, highlighting two extremes of communication: the supernatural, celestial names of angels; and the natural, subaquatic world of pond ...
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EMC-021 | EM RECORDS

2023 repress "Sweet post-punk, with a heartfelt reggae/funk influence, analog dub effects and lovely femme-vox. A unique slice of late-70s/early-80s goodness, starring Brenda Ray, whose previous release on EM Records, Walatta, has been embraced by a large number of ...
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EM1108LP2 | EM RECORDS

"Never colonized, Thailand has remained purely itself across the years even while developing, evolving and selectively adopting international influences; the same can be said of Thai popular music, and can be clearly heard in previous releases of Thai music on EM ...
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EM1186LP | EM RECORDS

"YPY is back with his third full-length album, his second on EM Records, following his 2016 debut Zurhyrethm, and 2020 on Where To Now? YPY is the solo alias of Osaka-based Koshiro Hino, who has honed his rhythmic instincts as leader of the acclaimed Japanese band goat ...
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EM1184CD | EM RECORDS

"Tapes, aka Jackson Bailey, returns to EM Records for the first time since 2015's "No Broken Hearts on This Factory Floor", in a live collaboration with his pal from Osaka, 7FO, another of EM's favourite artists. This CD features new arrangements of some Tapes digital ...
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EM1188CD | EM RECORDS

CLAN CAIMAN - ASOMA (LP)

"Clan Caimán returns to EM Records for their second album, continuing the instinctive evolution of their music: a wordless, timeless, gently pulsing and sweetly melodic soundworld, based on composer Emilio Haro's vision of a band playing the music of an imaginary ...
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EM1195LP | EM RECORDS

CLAN CAIMAN - ASOMA (CD)

"Clan Caimán returns to EM Records for their second album, continuing the instinctive evolution of their music: a wordless, timeless, gently pulsing and sweetly melodic soundworld, based on composer Emilio Haro's vision of a band playing the music of an imaginary ...
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EM1195CD | EM RECORDS

"The music of Clan Caiman is primitive and hypnotic. It is located in the pre-rock era and from there, it proposes a different evolutionary path for music from the 1950s to present day. Like a different musical development in a parallel timeline. Gamelan, Hawaiian ...
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EM1177CD | EM RECORDS

"Futoshi Moriyama is an Osaka-based electronic music producer who began his musical career in the early 2000s improvised music hothouse of Osaka's Shinsekai Bridge, an important venue for the "Kansai zero sedai" (Kansai Zero Generation), which sprang up in the wake of ...
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EM1196CD | EM RECORDS

"The cover of this release features a gradation of color, a subtle but complete infusion of one element into another, an almost imperceptible moment where A becomes B and both become more. And that is one way of thinking about the music in this release, a piece composed ...
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EM1183CD | EM RECORDS

"The cover of this release features a gradation of color, a subtle but complete infusion of one element into another, an almost imperceptible moment where A becomes B and both become more. And that is one way of thinking about the music in this release, a piece composed ...
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EM1183TLP | EM RECORDS

"Launched in an uncertain time, here are 12 tracks from 17 new independent Japanese artists, a physical release from a generation which has an online-release default setting. Not a scene document, not a label sampler, and not a showcase for a collective, this ...
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EM1192LP | EM RECORDS

"This collection of 12 luk thung songs from the 1960s-70s, all produced by Surin Phaksiri, is a superb showcase of cross-genre/multi-national fertilization, with Latin, jazz, western pop, Indian and Japanese music seamlessly melding with the musical culture of Isan ...
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EM1185CD | EM RECORDS

"In 1981, Brenda Ray / Naffi Sandwich released the sweetly yearning "D' Ya Hear Me!" . The song is now considered a post-punk classic, and here we have a warm digi-reggae version sung by Kyoto composer/producer/vocalist NTsKI ("Natsuki"), with backing tracks performed, ...
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EM1187TEP | EM RECORDS

"December 1982, Tokyo. Kiyoaki Iwamoto has a guitar, a simple rhythm box, a friend with a bass guitar, and some stripped-down songs, brazen in their post-punk simplicity, irritation and controlled aggression, yet full of sadness and resignation. Five songs, including a ...
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EM1193CD | EM RECORDS

"December 1982, Tokyo. Kiyoaki Iwamoto has a guitar, a simple rhythm box, a friend with a bass guitar, and some stripped-down songs, brazen in their post-punk simplicity, irritation and controlled aggression, yet full of sadness and resignation. Five songs, including a ...
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EM1193TLP | EM RECORDS

"This is the duo's long-awaited second release from Osaka-based Synth Sisters, following their 2014 debut. Consisting entirely of new recordings, featuring Mayuko's synthesizers, and Rie's electric piano and synthesizers as well as her celestial vocals. The euphoria on ...
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EM1175CD | EM RECORDS

"7FO: pronounced "nana f o" in English, "nana" being seven. Ryu no Nukegara: "dragon's husk". These are the only difficulties you'll encounter here. This is warm, friendly, relaxed music, very "understandable" and yet intriguing, sure to appeal to fans of electronic ...
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EM1178CD | EM RECORDS

"An exciting collection from pioneering Thai molam idol Banyen Rakkaen, featuring her most thrilling performances from the early to mid-70s, with innovative genre-bending arrangements and production from Thepphabut Satirodchomphu. These tracks, all originally released ...
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EM1174CD | EM RECORDS

""Kizaki Ondo" is a folk song from Nitta Kizaki town in Gunma, north of Tokyo. Played annually by local performers at the Bon-Odori traditional summer dance festival, it features unabashed lyrics about prostitution along with a rhythmic drive sure to appeal to fans of ...
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EM1179CD | EM RECORDS

JUU4E - CRAZY WOLRD (LP)

"Rising out of the bong haze, Thai master JUU4E is back with his second solo album for EM Records. Fusing hip hop and trap with a pan-Asian blend of influences and samples from the traditional and pop musics of his native country, as well as the musics of Japan, ...
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EM1194LP | EM RECORDS