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URC Selection - The Dawn Of City Folk Compiled by Keiichi Sokabe
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  • LP pressed on black vinyl
  • Songs selected by Sogabe Keiichi (Sunny Day Service)
  • Jacket design and liner notes by Sobage himself

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The songs were selected by Sogabe Keiichi (Sunny Day Service), who has a deep knowledge of URC.

URC (Underground Record Club) was born in 1969 as a pioneer of Japanese indie labels and ended its activities at the end of the 1970s. URC, which brought together such cutting-edge talents as Wataru Takada, Kenji Endo, Five Red Balloons, Ryo Kagawa, Happiendo, Nobuyasu Okabayashi, and many others, can be regarded as the founder of Japanese folk/rock music. Keiichi Sogabe (Sunny Day Service), who has a deep knowledge of URC, selected songs from their vast catalog of sound sources, and the compilation CD "Dawn of City Folk - URC Selection Compiled by Keiichi Sogabe" was released in November 2024 which became a hot topic. It has been decided to release an analog LP version of this compilation. This time, Sogabe himself is in charge of both the jacket...

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Preview Tracklist

  • 1 Koroshite shimaou
  • 2 Talking jidōsha racing blues
  • 3 Ame agari no building machi《Boku wa machisugite totemo tsukareteshimatta》
  • 4 Sora wa fukigen
  • 5 Yume wa yakai (Live)
  • 6 Agemasu
  • 7 Sonoke ni nareba
  • 8 Salvia no hana
  • 9 Hirakata no Aki-chan
  • 10 Zeni ga nakerya
  • 11 Rashinban de hoshi uranai wa dekinai