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Lovin' Mighty Fire: Nippon Funk Soul Disco 1973-1983Various Artists

BGP Records

Funk/Soul, Disco, Compilations

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1. Lily – Bye Bye Session Band
2. Rie Nakahara – Sentimental Hotel
3. Haruomi Hosono – Bara To Yajuu
4. Yasuko Agawa – Why Don't You Move In With Me
5. Pink Lady – Jiken Ga Okitara Bell Ga Naru
6. Yuko Asano – Summer Champion
7. Junko Ohashi – Preview Dancin'
8. Masayoshi Takanaka – Preview Rainbow Paradise
9. Mari Natsuki – Uragiri
10. Miyako Chaki – Maboroshi No Hito
11. Kay Ishiguro – Banana
12. Masaaki Hirao – Funky Miyo-chan
13. Ebonee Webb – Yashow Macashow
14. Naoya Matsuoka & Minako Yoshida – Lovin' Mighty Fire

Howard Williams (check his amazing Japan Blues show on NTS radio!) has assembled a compilation of Japanese funk, soul and disco for Ace Records offshoot BGP International.

From mavericks like Haruomi Hosono of the Yellow Magic Orchestra, with his low-down proto-disco groove, to soul singer Minako Yoshida belting it out on the epic title track; jazz vocalist Yasuko Agawa (of LA Nights fame) sweetly covers Roberta Flack, while Memphis soul group Ebonee Webb, funk up a Japanese folk tune, and that's just for starters. This compilation shows that Japan not only voraciously consumed soul and its offshoot genres, but - unknown to the rest of the world - it carved out its own sound too.

With original sleeves and label artwork, and voluminous sleeve notes.

Essential!

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Diggin' In The Carts: A Collection Of Pioneering Japanese Video Game MusicVarious ArtistsHyperdub

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Incantations For Tape: Precocious Noise and Early Electronica Pt. 1Various ArtistsSound Miracle Recordings

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Killer mutant disco from Japan Blues, who channels Maurice Fulton vibes via Jah Wobble on the essential 'Chapter V' cut! Slow, weird, tropical and oddball,...

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