Sunday Coffee and Tunes - 30 August 2026


Ryuichi Sakamoto & Kazumi Watanabe – Tokyo Joe
Sakamoto & Watanabe doing electro synth pop and jazz fusion featuring guests Yukihiro Takahashi from YMO and Akiko Yano on some vocals. Not be confused with Brian Ferry's Tokyo Joe which is not a cover of this. On the B side, Thousand Knives is where Sakamoto & Watanabe go all out. I'll be there is a great electro boogie number which featured on Gilles Peterson show few years back when he did a special on Akiko Yano.

This is an original 1982 pressing that I got relatively cheaply as it was missing an obi.

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Sunday Coffee and Tunes - 30 August 2026


Pacific Breeze 3: Japanese City Pop, AOR And Boogie 1975-1987
We head to Japan in just over a month and I've been spinning some of my favourite Japanese music lately whilst I fine tune my vinyl want list.

These Light in the Attic city pop comps are great! Admittedly not city pop albums are good from start to finish, with many containing one banger and the rest ballads so these compilations contain a good mix of some standout tracks. However this album contains a track from a lesser known artist Suzan Nozaki who's album is a synth pop / new wave / post punk style album and is good from start to finish. It's on my list.

I spun this compilation twice whilst I impulsively decided to rearrange my record collection.

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Sunday Tea and Tunes - 9 August 2026


Akiko Yano - Tadaima
Akiko Yano is prolific and genre defying. I fucking love this record. The artwork, the synth sounds, the unpredictability. It's unlike anything I'd heard before. Tadaima is co-produced by her late former husband Ryuichi Sakamoto. It also features the other YMO musicians. For fans of Kate Bush, Tom Tom Club & Le Tigre - so me!

This is the 1986 repress which is fine by me because I didn't think I'd find an original until we went to Japan. I bought this is Melbourne in 2024. I'm not someone who forks out a lot for second hand records but I did splash a bit on this.

#AkikoYano #tadaima #Japanese #nowplaying #nowspinning #vinyl #records 

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