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N.D.E.

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2LP Black $38
  • First ever vinyl pressing of N.D.E.
  • Pressed on black double vinyl
  • Featuring Goh Hotoda, Yasuhiko Terada, Yasuaki Shimizu, Bill Laswell & François Kevorkian…
  • Cut at 33rpm
  • Remastered
  • NO SALES TO JAPAN

Description

First ever vinyl pressing of Haruomi Hosono’s full album N.D.E. Featuring Goh Hotoda, Yasuhiko Terada, Yasuaki Shimizu, Bill Laswell & François Kevorkian. Big TIP!

Ever since his days as a pioneer of Japanese electronic music in the 1970s, Haruomi Hosono has constantly pushed forwards musically. The 1990s was a particularly fertile decade for the Yellow Magic Orchestra co-founder. Following two decades spent creating and releasing innovative electronic pop, imaginary sound worlds, and inspirational ambient music, Hosono established the Daisyworld label to showcase cutting-edge ambient, techno, and electronica, while also embarking on a wide range of often overlooked collaborative projects.

N.D.E., one of the headiest, most psychedelic, evocative, and gently mind-altering albums in Hosono’s vast discography, is one such project. It formed part of a run of albums that saw the Japanese producer embrace contemporaneous influences – think Spacetime Continuum-style ambient techno, DJ Spooky-esque illbient, weighty...

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Artist Bio

Van Dyke Parks, who first met Hosono in Los Angeles in 1972, compares his old friend to artists like Harry Nilsson and Ry Cooder, whose works are in categories all their own. “All of these nails that stuck out at that time were, to me, exemplary,” Parks said in a recent interview. “I heard that, in Japan, the tendency is to hammer down the nails that stick out. I think that Haruomi Hosono is a nail that sticks out. And has maintained that.”

Born and raised in central Tokyo as the grandson of the only Japanese survivor of the Titanic, Hosono’s young obsession with American pop culture informed his early forays into country and surf music. He made his professional debut in 1969 as a member of Apryl Fool, whose heavy psychedelia stood in contrast to his next group Happy End,...

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Preview Tracklist

  • 1 Spinning Spirits
  • 2 Navigations
  • 3 Teaching Of Sphinx
  • 4 Strange Attractor
  • 5 Heliotherapy
  • 6 Higher Flyer
  • 7 Edge Of The End
  • 8 Aero