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    DJ Notoya presents Funk Tide - Tokyo Jazz-Funk From Electric Bird 1978-87Various Artists

    Wewantsounds
    • – Shunzo Ohno - In The Sky
    • – Mikio Masuda - Let's Get Together
    • – Yasuaki Shimizu - Summer Time
    • – David Matthews & Electric Birds - Special Delivery
    • – Toshiyuki Honda - Living In A City
    • – Ronnie Foster - Night Life
    • – Bobby Lyle Trio - Night Breeze
    • – Katsutoshi Morizono - Space Traveller
    • 1. Shunzo Ohno - In The Sky
    • 2. Mikio Masuda - Let's Get Together
    • 3. Yasuaki Shimizu - Summer Time
    • 4. David Matthews & Electric Birds - Special Delivery
    • 5. Toshiyuki Honda - Living In A City
    • 6. Ronnie Foster - Night Life
    • 7. Bobby Lyle Trio - Night Breeze
    • 8. Katsutoshi Morizono - Space Traveller

    Following the success of their previous Tokyo Glow compilation, Wewantsounds once again team up with Japanese Tokyo-based DJ Notoya to dig up the rich Electric Bird catalogue, and come with a subsequent, versatile selection of sunny jazz-funk gems recorded between 1978 and 1987 for the label. A tasty selection featuring Yasuaki Shimizu, Toshiyuki Honda and Mikio Masuda, together with a few American musicians such as Ronnie Foster and Bobby Lyle, most tracks here are making their debut outside of Japan, the album comes with a full annotation by Notoya and is a multifarious meander through every angle of the polygonal gamut of J-jazz, disco, city pop, and funk. Highlights include Masuda's 'Let's Get Together' and Foster's prototypical wonky funk number, 'Night Life'.

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