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| Artist______________ Various Artists |
| Title_______________ Somewhere Between |
| Label_______________ Light In The Attic Records / LITA183 |
| Genre_______________ Electronic |
| Year________________ 2021 |
| Release Date________ 2021-02-21 |
| Street Date_________ 2021-01-22 |
| Source______________ WEB |
| Encoder_____________ MP3 / LAME |
| Quality_____________ CBR 320kbps 44.1kHz |
| Size________________ 77.7MiB |
| Playtime____________ 0:33:51 |
| URL_________________ https://amazon.com/dp/B08P3X6K44/ |
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| 1. Noriko Miyamoto - Arrows & Eyes 04:04 |
| 2. Mishio Ogawa - Hikari No Ito Kin No Ito 04:45 |
| 3. R.N.A-ORGANISM - WEIMAR 22 04:07 |
| 4. Mammy - Mizu No Naka No Himitsu 04:38 |
| 5. D-Day - Sweet Sultan 05:16 |
| 6. Perfect Mother - Dark Disco-Da*Da*Da*Da*Run 03:13 |
| 7. Neo Museum - Area 05:14 |
| 8. Sonoko - Wedding With God (A Nijinski) 02:35 |
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| Somewhere Between: Mutant Pop, Electronic Minimalism & Shadow Sounds |
| of Japan 1980-1988 hovers vibe-wise between two distinct poles within |
| Light In The Attic's acclaimed Japan Archival Series - Kankyo Ongaku: |
| Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980-1990 and Pacific |
| Breeze: Japanese City Pop, AOR & Boogie 1976-1986. All three albums |
| showcase recordings produced during Japan's soaring bubble economy of |
| the 1980s, an era in which aesthetic visions and consumerism merged. |
| Music echoed the nation's prosperity and with financial abundance |
| came the luxury to dream. |
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| Sonically, Somewhere Between mines the midpoint between Kankyo |
| Ongaku's sparkling atmospherics and Pacific Breeze's metropolitan |
| boogie. The compilation encompasses ambient pop, underground |
| electronics, liminal minimalism and shadow sounds - all descriptors |
| emphasizing the hazy nature of the nebula. Out-of-focus rhythms wear |
| ethereal accoutrements, ballads are shrouded in static, and angular |
| drums snake skyward on transcendent tones. From the Avant-minimalism |
| of Mkwaju Ensemble, to the leftfield techno-pop of Mishio Ogawa and |
| Noriko Miyamoto (featuring members of YMO), and highlights from the |
| groundbreaking Osaka underground label Vanity Records, these are |
| blurry constellations defying collective categorization. |
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| These tracks also exist in a space of transition when the major label |
| grip on the Japanese recording market began to give way to the |
| escalation of independents. Thanks to the idyllic economic climate |
| and innovations in domestically-manufactured music gear, creators on |
| the edges were empowered to focus on satisfying their artistic |
| visions in the open headspace of home studios. While labels like |
| Warner Music and Nippon Columbia explored new sounds through |
| traditional channels, it was possible for Vanity, Balcony and other |
| indie labels, not to mention self-released artists like Ojima and |
| Naoki Asai, to publish their work via affordable media such as |
| cassettes, 7" vinyl, and flexi-discs. |
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| Expertly curated by Yosuke Kitazawa and Mark "Frosty" McNeill |
| (dublab), Somewhere Between is a collection of music, much of it |
| released for the first time outside Japan, that is bound more by |
| energetic vibration than shared history, genre or scene. They are the |
| sounds of transition and searching - a celebration of the freedom |
| found in floating. |
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| YOU KNOW YOU HAVE TO BUY THIS SHIT IF YOU LIKE IT RIGHT?! |
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