EM RECORDS
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.
pre-order: release date end of march 26 ""Music in DNA" is an album recorded in the early 1980s in New York City by Yasuhito Ohno, a young Japanese man breaking free from the constraints of his homeland. The album is a naive burst of outsider DIY enthusiasm, inspired by ...
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EMC-029LP | EM RECORDS
"Beyond Rare! These historical recordings of a 1967 concert at Hope College in Michigan involving John Cage, Toshi Ichiyanagi and David Tudor, performing compositions by Ichiyanagi and Alvin Lucier, were recently discovered in an archive in Japan. The Lucier piece, ...
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OP-0019/EMC-028LP | EM RECORDS
"There are certain albums which shake the world immediately upon release, and others which come from far underground and whose shocks and aftershocks rise to the surface gradually over the years, gaining momentum and power. "Ten Dubs That Shook The World" is of the ...
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EM1219LP | EM RECORDS
OZAWA AND THE BABYLON BAND / KUFUKI AND RIFU OTSU - GO BACK TO THE COUNTRYSIDE / THE COUNTRYSIDE IS GREAT (12" - USED m-/m-)
"This 12-inch vinyl-only release is the fourth in the series in support of the Kuzoku film "Bangkok Nites". Both songs here are covers of "The Countryside is Great", a 70s luk thung classic originally sung by Runghpet Laemsing. The song, which plays a pivotal role in ...
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EM1172 | EM RECORDS
""8 Automated Works", the first full release by Componium Ensemble, an "indeterminate chamber music" ensemble helmed by Spencer Doran of Visible Cloaks. The project is inspired by the long history of automated musical instruments, beginning with the ancient Greek ...
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EM1221TLP | EM RECORDS
"This collection, featuring seven pieces from 2011 to 2015, celebrates Noah Creshevsky's 70th year with a fittingly life-affirming and masterful verve. An award-winning composer who has studied with Nadia Boulanger and Luciano Berio, he began composing electronic music ...
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EM1140LP | EM RECORDS
releases November 21st, 2025 "We at EM Records love to transport our listeners to new worlds, other worlds; "Pantilde", this magical new album from Cornish avant-folk performance artist The Worm, is indeed an ethereal new world: otherworldly, but somehow rooted; an ...
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EMC-026LP | EM RECORDS
"We at EM Records love to transport our listeners to new worlds, other worlds; "Pantilde", this magical new album from Cornish avant-folk performance artist The Worm, is indeed an ethereal new world: otherworldly, but somehow rooted; an imaginary oral and musical story ...
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EMC-026CD | EM RECORDS
"At long last, Takao is back with his long-awaited second album, seven years in the making. His 2018 "Stealth" was (and still is) a much-loved set, mixing elements of ambient and environmental music; with this new release Takao breaks free of the gravitational pull of ...
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EM1220 | EM RECORDS
"A beautiful album re-emerges from realms of mystery! The long-awaited vinyl reissue of a Japanese neoclassical/experimental/new age/electronic music classic, originally released in 1978. "Crystallization" is a work of unwavering perfection, whose sparkle has become ...
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EMC-025 | EM RECORDS
"Have you ever been to Miyazaki? It's a prefecture on Japan's southern island of Kyushu, facing the Pacific. Palm trees. Humid subtropical climate. This is the home of Maple Fyshh, a musical artist whose late-80s/early-90s recordings have been collected and reissued ...
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EM1214LP | EM RECORDS
"2024 repress with a new cover art. Mustapha Skandrani. Besides having an excellent name, this man, a luminary of Algerian music, possessed a unique musical sense, able to transcend the borders of musical cultures to create a distinctive fusion of Arabo-Andalusian and ...
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EM1096LP2 | EM RECORDS
"Clan Caimán, led by composer Emilio Haro, is a group from Argentina, but their timeless, organic music transcends nationality. "Pica-Pau" (woodpecker), their third album, is their most abstract and minimal to date, but this is not a cold abstraction nor an austere ...
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EM2131LP | EM RECORDS
"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. 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 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 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
