"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
"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
