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1978

P-Vine

PLP-8396

LP Black

$37

SHIPS BY 2026-09-25

First-ever vinyl edition of the legendary 1978 recordings
Includes 3 previously unreleased tracks
Essential release for collectors of Japanese new wave, experimental music, and early electronic sounds
Japanese New Wave/Proto-Techno/Rare Archive Recording

Description

Techno, Mondo, Lo-Fi—HIKASHU had already anticipated entire musical planet in 1978.

Recorded on a 4-track tape recorder before the band's official debut, 1978 is a legendary collection of early recordings that remained largely unknown until its acclaimed CD release in 1996. Now, nearly 30 years later, these pioneering recordings are finally being released on vinyl for the very first time.

Included three previously unreleased tracks. Among them an alternate version of "Confusion," which was originally available only on a highly sought-after fan club flexi-disc.

"A year before releasing our debut album on Toshiba EMI, HIKASHU had already developed a distinctive and intrest music. Working in a small house near a railway line in Tokyo's Nerima district, the band transformed a makeshift recording space—windows shuttered, blankets hung on the walls—into a laboratory of sound, where rhythm machines resonated a sound around ."

by Kouichi MAKIGAMI (Leader of HIKASHU)