DJ Notoya - Tokyo Pulse: Japanese Funk, Modern And City Pop From The Tokyo Scene 1974-88 LPHot on the heels of the Tokyo Bliss and Funk Tide sets, Tokyo based DJ Notoya delivers Tokyo Pulse, a new juicy selection of funk and modern soul recorded in Tokyo in the '70s and '80s. Most tracks here are making their debut outside of Japan and the album, like its predecessors, has been designed by Manuel Sepulveda (Optigram) and is annotated by DJ Notoya. The audio has been newly mastered in Tokyo by Nippon Columbia Records and remastered for vinyl

Wewantsounds presents the release of Akiko Yano's cult 1979 album 7 O'Clock in Tokyo

and Fujimaru Yoshino

Tokyo Salute / Grey October Sound

R & B songs and popular songs are taken from the jazz standards that were popular in the 1950s and 1960s

which featured remixes by Autechre

Song for My Lady

a new wave of gospel-influenced jazz started to emerge

primarily because he was the musical director of the Modern Jazz Quartet where he combined jazz with classical constructions and gave jazz a distinctly cerebral touch yet his own approach to jazz was one of musical efficiency where not a note went to waste

a miraculous session where everything came together perfectly

" --Rolling Stone

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The next moment he strolls through a beautiful Japanese park surrounded by a sea of blossoms