Various Artists: Polyphonic Cosmos: A Beginners Guide To Japan In The 80s (1981 - 86)

Compiled by JD Twitch • Cease & Desist / C&D002

Side 1

1 World Standard - ばら二曲 Baranikyoku (Fellini&Rota) - 3.34 (1985)
2 Masumi Hara - Your Dream - 2.45 (1984)
3 Normal Brain - M.U.S.I.C. - 4.16  (1981)
4 Hiroyuki Namba - Who Done It? (part 2) - 4.04 (1983)

Side 2

1 Yasuaki Shimizu - Crow - 4.46 (1981)
2 Hiroyuki Namba - Tropical Exposition - 3.29 (1982)
3 Imitation - Exotic Dance - 6.02 (1982)
4 Pecker - Sha La La - 3.21 (1983)

Side 3

1 EP-4 - dB - 5.12 (1984)
2 Earthling - You Go Natural - 4.27 (1981)
3 Masumi Hara - Camera - 5.22  (1982)

Side 4

1 Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Rinne Kohkyogaku Meikei - 5.06 (1986)
2 D - Day - Ki Ra-I - 4.16 (1986)
3 Ryuichi Sakamoto - A Wongga Dance Song - 6.18 (1985)

Ever since he made his first trip to Japan to DJ, Optimo Music founder JD Twitch has been bewitched by Japanese music, and particularly the vibrant, imaginative, and often far-sighted sounds which emerged from the island nation during the 1980s. Now he’s put years of digging in Japanese record shops to good use on Polyphonic Cosmos, the latest release on his compilation-focused Cease & Desist imprint.

Subtitled ‘A Beginners Guide to Japan In The ‘80s’, the collection offers a personal selection of Japanese gems recorded and released between 1981 and ’86 – a period when advances in recording and musical technology offered the nation’s artists and producers a whole new tool kit to employ. When combined with the unique musical culture of Japan, where local traditions are frequently fused with Western styles to create timeless, off-kilter aural fusions, this embrace of locally pioneered music technology had spectacular, often unusual results.

Eight years in the making, Polyphonic Cosmos provides an endlessly entertaining musical snapshot of Japanese music of the early-to-mid ‘80s with all of the open-minded eclecticism and sonic twists that you would expect from the Glasgow-based DJ.

Compare and contrast, for example, the gently breezy, morning-fresh folk-plus-electronics bliss of ‘ばら二曲 Baranikyoku (Fellini&Rota)’ by World Standard – the most familiar alias of long-serving musician/producer Sohichiro Suzuki – and the hallucinatory, slow-motion tribal rhythms, post-punk rhythms and tape delay-laden electronics of Imitation’s ‘Exotic Dance’. Or, for that matter, the tipsy mid-‘80s electronic reggae of Pecker’s ‘Sha La La’, the grungy but melodic post-punk strut of ‘You Go On Natural’ by Earthling (a track Twitch accurately describes as “sheer unrelenting groove”), and the unearthly, swirling sonics, new age instrumentation and flotation tank vocals of prolific (and seemingly mysterious) act Geinoh Yamashirogumi’s ‘Rimme Kohkyogaku Meiki’.

It’s a credit to JD Twitch’s curatorial skills that the quality never dips, and sonic surprises lurk around every corner. Consider for a moment the hard to describe, far-sighted audio immersion of D-Day’s ‘Ki-Ra’ – all languid post-pop guitar, enveloping chords, spoken word vocals, shuffling 808 beats and marimba melodies – and the two contributions from video games soundtrack specialist (and driving instrumental synth-pop specialist) Hiroyuki Namba.

The collection naturally includes some selections that have long been favourites in Twitch’s DJ sets – see Masumi Hara’s ‘Your Dream’ – as well as a handful of tracks from artists who may be more recognisable to those with only rudimentary knowledge of Japanese musical culture. The great Yasuaki Shimizu, whose work as Mariah has become far better known in recent years thanks to reissues of some of his most magical albums, is represented via ‘The Crow’, a picturesque chunk of horizontal, hard-to-define jazz-not-jazz smokiness, while the collection fittingly concludes with a sublimely funky, oddball electronic workout from Yellow Magic Orchestra legend Ryuichi Sakamoto (the frankly incredible ‘Wongga Dance Song’).

Cease & Desist 002 - Various: Polyphonic Cosmos: Sonic Innovations In Japan (1980 - 86) OUT NOW!

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New Massage - Telephones & Chucheewa - 02 Jul 2025

‘For home use only’ is an anti-club social, a chance to get to know someone/something. A series of transmissions purely dedicated to exploring the other side.

Alas! We’re still alive (whatever that means) and still here (wherever you are). Returning from the far edges of the cosmos-via the duty-free shop-we bring an audible delicacy to share. People of Earth, Fefe has arrived, and you should be both honoured and excited.

An introduction stitched with the very fabric of time and space, Fefe offers a love letter that strikes straight at the heart-lifting happiness by at least 50-60%. A radiant testament to the kinder side of human nature (the part we sometimes forget), and a gentle reminder of music’s true power when made with pure intent.

Switch to airplane mode, take the long way home, and enjoy this in full.

Love from us. 

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Live from Du Beast: for the next two hours, Zillas on Acid are serving up a feast for your ears.

Zillas on Acid [11.8.25]

| REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL | w/ Babycino | E14

00:00:00  1 Kid Creole & The Coconuts - In the Name of Common Decency, Pt. 1
00:06:43  2 Jitwam - All In feat. Rimarkable
00:10:24  3 Pan Amsterdam - NYC Town
00:15:37  4 Chaz Jankel & Finn Peters - Back to Front
00:21:46  5 Last BeNeVoLeNcE - Intershade Drift
00:25:30  6 Space Ghost & Teddy Bryant - Unconditional (Club Mix)
00:29:29  7 Telefax Productions presents DeeVoeNay - Break This House Down (Extended Mix)
00:34:18  8 Fingers N Flowers - Between Us (Instrumental) (feat. Madaline)
00:40:39  9 Rahaan - Smoke
00:45:53 10 Ty Serna - Smart Card
00:52:08 11 Michael J. Blood - Space Be
00:55:35 12 Mystery Tiime - A Cruel Dub
00:59:12 13 Solid Gold Playaz - I Choose You
01:04:40 14 Teflon Dons - DONTWANTU2GO
01:12:41 15 Mark Grusane - Spectrum Of Love
01:16:27 16 Shiva - One More Way (Jura Soundsystem Version)
01:23:32 17 George Riley - Slow
01:27:02 18 Kartell - Lush [Uk Version] (feat. Tkay Maidza)
01:29:55 19 Gabriel Brady & Sam Prekop - Untitled (Sam Prekop Remix)
01:32:23 20 B.AI - Act5
01:37:55 21 Charonne - Heavy Metal
01:43:51 22 Nu Era - Soul Drumatix
01:48:49 23 Superflat - Control
01:51:59 24 Impérieux - Objectify

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Full Support (2025-09-03)

Extrawelt & Dominik Eulberg - A Little Further (Not On A Map)
Captain Mustache - Pen Weapon feat. Mel E. Logan (Electrosexual Remix)
Jon May - Dream Catcher
9OASES - Call Coco (Extended Version)(Edit)
Legowelt - Disco Rout (Younger Rebinds Remix 1)
Calystarr - New Horizons
Woo York - The Red Room
Mundo D - Game Over (Undo Insert Coin Remix)
Captain Mustache / Third Culture - Vertigo
Man2.0 & Precious Blood - CTRL ALT DEL (Tronik Youth Remix)
Todd Terje - Ragysh
JD Twitch - Maya
New York Endless - Double 9 Heart (Song for Twitch)
Ten Benson - Rock Cottage
The Undertones - Teenage Kicks
JD Twitch - The Lark Ascending [excerpt]

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What's Going On (Truth & Rights Remix) - Marvin Gaye/Bob Marley 
In Ya Area - Dougie Conscious 
Nika - Vicious 
Izzy Izzy Ahh - Missy Elliott 
Steelo - 702 
Ciara - Like U (Miracles Remix) 
heatwave - louli 
Check 4 U (Original) - Bovel 
No Scrubs - TLC 
Reasons - Colloboh 
Sponsored Ritual - trickpony 
Purple Airplane - D. Tiffany 
Ain't Nobody (Hallucinogenic Version) - Rufus & Chaka Khan 
Inside Out (MCM Mix) - Electribe 101 
You're My Last Dub (Piafra Edit) - Hip Edits 
Who Said? (Vocal Version) - Two The Hardway 
Ravers Dream - Skeleten 
Schizofriendly - Midnight Savari 
Je T'Aime Tous Les Jours (Fundido Mix) - Fundido 
Sagittariun – Different Planet - A Sagittariun 
You Show Me Love (Andy Bainbridge Remix) - MOCHUDI  
Amajovi Jovi (Lion's Drums Edit) - Sandy B & Lion's Drums 
Ibiza Ritter - DJ Fettburger & DJ Speckgürtel 
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Meticulous (Alex Kassian Remix) - comforter2 
Over The Edge - Secretsundaze 
Searching - Showerhead

Skylab - Yikes: Beam Me Up E11

"For October's Seven Bells Knocking show, we have another special guest - Jamie Paton
The first hour comes from DZ GAS. After that, Jamie Paton (Emotional Especial / Cage & Aviary) -  His sets are a riot of mutant disco, heavy chug, and raw electronics - fingerprints all over the underground, records that twist rooms sideways."

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Disco-Renegades. House-Eccentrics. Purveyors of electronic freemasonry. Ok, I might exaggerate a bit here, but the Sex Tags Mania label has been Tagged many things. “They just don’t care”, one fan once said in an interview. Well, they do care, do what they believe in, being die-hard vinyl lovers and all. Ever persistent in their curiosity for new and old sounds, the Norwegians have been running their Bergen-based label since 2004. DJ Sotofett and DJ Fett Burger are also great artists, just take a look at their<a href="http://sextags.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> work</a>. This is a place where the aesthetic of old-school Chicago flyers clashes with black and white mutations of comic heroes of yonder: No wonder their Tag line runs "Graffiti can't be stopped.". DJ Sotofett's mix is an assemblage of some of his  classic house favourites: Be sure not to miss the part where he does his shout-outs in Norwegian.

Nr. 36: DJ Sotofett (Sex Tags Mania)

Slightly edited NTS Show from 30/06/20. Available to download.

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