Music Interiors
Mix of Japanese new-age/ambient/minimalist music, mostly emanating from the corporate infrastructure of the 1980s asset bubble. FM synthesis, prefab “lifestyle” soundscapes and the illusion of nature in a hyper-urban environment.
Tracklist:
Hiroshi Yoshimura – “Water Planet” from Soundscape 1: Surround
Toshifumi Hinata – “Colored Air” from Reality in Love
Midori Takada – “Mr. Henri Rousseau’s Dream” from Through the Looking Glass
Yas Kaz – “Jungle Book/Windscape” from Jomon-Sho
Yutaka Hirose – “Nova” from Sound Scape 2: Nova
Shiho Yabuki – “Tomoshibi” from The Body Is A Message Of The Universe
Inoyama Land – “Mizue” from Danzindan-Pojidon
Yoshio Ojima – “Sealed” from Une Collection Des Chainons II: Music For Spiral
Yoichiro Yoshikawa – “Nube” from Cyprus
Interior – “Park” from Interior
Yasuaki Shimizu – “Kono Yo Ni Yomeri #2″ from Kakashi
Hiroshi Yoshimura – “Water Copy” from Music For Nine Post Cards
Yoichiro Yoshikawa – “Crater on the Moon” from Miracle Planet
Haruomi Hosono – “(In-store background music for Muji storefront)” from Muji BGM
Kenji Furukawa – “(Untitled Water Recording) from Sound Stream: Mizu
Fairlights Mallets and Bamboo Vol. 2 coming soon…
nice one! great mix, as always. can’t wait for V2 of fairlights…
no one can do it better
what is the song that starts at 24:55? I’m obsessed with it and not very good at following the track listing.
@ m kitchell – that’s the inoyama land track.
Had no idea that Hosono did music for a Muji CD. Funny.
thanks! nice to see you dropped some Interior in there.
i love that album.
love it. thanx so much.
I am absolutely loving this, thanks so much. Such evocative music – makes me want to get hold of all the original works, but I expect they’re quite hard to find now, are they?
Physically? Yes: http://www.ln-cc.com/icat/organicmusic
Digitally, not so tough.
and yet not a single one of these came from the ln-cc sale…
both the interior LP and yas kaz LP had US releases that are pretty easy to turn up in the new age bins. the others are findable but only if you’re shopping at disc union
im loving this mix, great stuff!
any chance you could share the 2 volumes of Yoshio Ojima Une Collection Des Chainons with us? id love to hear those in full.
Do you have that Hiroshi Yoshimura album in its entirety? If so, I would love you forever if you could share that, it seems impossible to find elsewhere based on the sample, it seems like something that I’ve been needing for a very long time.
thank you for this mix i really needed it thank you
there’s two yoshimura albums in the mix, which are you after? i can up “music for nine postcards” easily as i already have it digitized. i’ll get to the others one of these days! got four different LPs by him and they’re all great.
worth noting that he was a member of taj mahal travellers (which is probably why you sometimes see his records listed as “fluxus” by people trying to hustle them)…
music for nine postcards:
http://www.mediafire.com/?03rv3mg8ej6jdth
btw, i need the “pier & loft” cassette if anyone out there in the ether has a copy. will pay handsomely.
hi spencer,
i would appreciate green, or any other early hiroshi yoshimura stuff. would love to do a feature on him after hideki matsutake / isao tomita already in the queue. i don’t have enough of his music to do one properly yet.
will get around to a big one on all the yen manifold stuff eventually :)
this is an absolutely beautiful mix thank you so much for doing this and please do more if you can!!!! i’ve been listening to it constantly the last few days i love this stuff
What’s the track that starts around 17:30 – is that Yas Kaz?
Awesome mix!
17:30 is Yutaka Hirose – “Nova”