Various Artists - Hіstory Of K-НIN Bros. Co. 1982-1994

Label : Super Fuji Discs - FJSP222/231

Country : Japan

Year : 2015

Format : CD

Since I am away on a brief vacation without the comfort of my tape player and turntable, I give you something truly sublime. I've held onto this for a little while, first downloaded from a friend on a familiar private tracker. This is a mammoth 11-hour box set chronicling what I consider the epitome of Japanese eccentric pop scene from the silent 80s throughout the roaring 90s.

I believe this came with a book or something of that nature. If you're interested in that, well you're gonna have to pull out the proverbial wallet for that because the download did not come with scans sadly. Though I don't think most reading can decipher runes, I could be wrong as I often am.

Discs 1-6

Discs 7-11

Midori Okamura [岡村みどり] - ブルースでなく (Mint-Lee)

Label : Out One Disc - KBS-DDCO-1011

Country : Japan

Year : 2010

Format : CD

Sweet minimalisms, here is another import from some island in the Pacific. A bit less manic compared to previous affairs, this is a nifty little collection of short and long and tall and brief synth tracks for the people.

Midori is a familiar name within the K-Hin Bros. collective. This being a reissue of a 1993 tape distributed by that legendary company and her being a member of Keihin mainstay Constance Towers/Space Ponch, this is rather self-evident. On another tangent, this apparently came with a CDr that contained some of the short CM (jingle) tracks she did. Alas, my copy did not come with that.

Here

EDIT: Here's that bonus CDr I mentioned earlier, found on the internet superhighway.

CM Special Vol. 1 & More