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Japan

Craft, restraint and reinvention, from the Edo workshop to the Tokyo studio.

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Jazz Samba

Stan Getz · 1962

Jazz Samba is a 1962 bossa nova album by Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd, recorded at All Souls Unitarian Church in Washington, D.C., on February 13, 1962, and released by Verve in April. It features Getz on saxophone, Byrd on guitar, two bassists (Keter Betts and Joe Byrd), and two drummers (Buddy Deppenschmidt and Bill Reichenbach). Arrangements are by Byrd. Two tracks—'Desafinado' and 'Samba de Uma Nota Só'—are by Antônio Carlos Jobim and were released as singles. The album won Getz the 1963 Grammy for Best Jazz Performance and sold over one million copies. It was part of Getz’s effort to introduce bossa nova to the U.S. after Byrd’s 1961 State Department tour of Brazil.

8:44

Ride on Time キャンペーン

Tatsuro Yamashita · 1980

A defining city pop record — precise, polished, and purpose-built for momentum, not memory.

13:00

Solid State Survivor

Yellow Magic Orchestra · 1979

Yellow Magic Orchestra's second album turns Hideki Matsutake's Microcomposer sequencing and Chris Mosdell's English lyrics into fully electronic pop songs, repurposing a watch-commercial jingle into Behind the Mask and naming a coming genre outright in Technopolis, years before Detroit techno existed to claim the word.

13:00

Yellow Magic Orchestra

Yellow Magic Orchestra · 1978

Yellow Magic Orchestra's 1978 debut turned a mocking cover of a 1959 exotica tune into a synth-pop landmark, built almost entirely on a Roland Microcomposer and a rack of early synthesizers. Playful, cool and stranger than its chart success suggests, it is now heard less as a novelty than as an ancestor of electro, techno and much of the sampling culture that followed.