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50 years ago, Hokkaido-born singer-songwriter Morio Agata released his debut single, Sekishoku Ereji (Red Elegy), an emotive, shuffling piano ballad that (shockingly) sold half a million copies in...

50 years ago singer-songwriter Morio Agata released his debut single, Sekishoku Ereji (Red Elegy), an emotive, shuffling piano ballad that (shockingly) sold half a million copies in Japan. While he...

Vinyl LP pressing. Mesh-Key is honored to present a deluxe reissue of a true desert island disc, criminally out of print for nearly 40 years. We spared no expense bringing this classic back to life...

This seminal, eponymous post-punk album by Japanese group Aunt Sally, fronted by experimental singer Phew, was first released by the iconic Vanity Records label in 1979. Over the past forty-plus...

High-octane tour-de-force by legendary post-punk group, Inu. Widely considered in Japan to be one of the all-time greatest punk records, 1981's Don't Eat Food! Remains shockingly unknown to the rest...

Arriving on the Japanese music scene during the Beatles-inspired cover band boom of the late '60s, Jacks instantly distinguished themselves from their fluff-peddling, copycat peers with...

Although The Rabbits briskly sold all 500 copies of the "Winter Songs" tape, live audiences at the time seemed dumbfounded by the group, and would stare at them in silence. After two years together,...

First-ever vinyl release of criminally unknown early '80s Japanese punk band. Fully remastered from the band's original early '80s cassette releases, limited edition vinyl packaged in a tip-on sleeve...

Vinyl LP pressing. After twenty plus years with Tokyo's psych rock gods Yura Yura Teikoku, beloved cult singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Shintaro Sakamoto's third solo album, Love If...

Legendary debut album by Junko Tange (mystery woman who showed up on the NWW list), originally issued by Osaka's Vanity Records in 1979. Dadaesque recitations and sparse guitar, piano and electronic...

Despite all Japan's technological and cultural advances in the 1970s and '80s, it's hard to believe this one's over 40 years old. Junko Tange's second and final album - a minimalistic, phantasmagoric...