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Takeshi Terauchi - Nippon Guitars: Instrumental Surf, Eleki & Tsugaru Rock 1966-1974 (2011)

Takeshi Terauchi - Nippon Guitars: Instrumental Surf, Eleki & Tsugaru Rock 1966-1974 (2011)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
Big Beat Records, CDWIKD 297 | ~ 531 or 182 Mb | Artwork(jpg) -> 10 Mb
Surf-Rock

Takeshi Terauchi (寺内タケシ, Terauchi Takeshi, born January 17, 1939 in Tsuchiura, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan), also known as Terry, is a Japanese instrumental rock guitarist. His preferred guitar is a black Mosrite with a white pickguard. His guitar sound is characterized by frenetic picking, heavy use of tremolo picking and frequent use of his guitar's vibrato arm…

Audio Active - Back To The Stoned Age (2003) [Japanese Edition]  Music

Posted by gribovar at April 24, 2020
Audio Active - Back To The Stoned Age (2003) [Japanese Edition]

Audio Active - Back To The Stoned Age (2003) [Japanese Edition]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 359 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 148 MB | Covers - 127 MB
Genre: Dub, Downtempo | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Beat Records (BRC-75)

Audio Active were one of the most successful reggae fusion bands to come out of Japan, and were formed in 1987, originally being a solo project of singer Masa. It later stretched out to be a full band in 1991, when 2DD, Shigemoto Nanao and bassist Takeshi Akimoto all joined. Masa had listened to reggae since he was a teenager, and had played (with 2DD) in the ska band Vital Connection, before taking his love of roots reggae and dub music and forming Audio Active, named after an album by Dennis Bovell. Adrian Sherwood began working with the band in 1992, and produced many of their recordings…

Takeshis'  Movies

Posted by at April 7, 2020
Takeshis'

Takeshis' (2005)
Beat Takeshi lives the busy and sometimes surreal life of a showbiz celebrity. One day he meets his blond lookalike named Kitano, a shy convenience store cashier, who, still an unknown actor, is waiting for his big break. After their paths cross, Kitano seems to begin hallucinating about becoming Beat.
Comedy  Drama 

Contemporary Japanese Cinema Since Hana-Bi  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by DZ123 at Oct. 8, 2020
Contemporary Japanese Cinema Since Hana-Bi

Adam Bingham, "Contemporary Japanese Cinema Since Hana-Bi"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 0748683739 | PDF | pages: 242 | 2.5 mb

Joe Hisaishi - Dream Songs: The Essential Joe Hisaishi (2020)  Music

Posted by delpotro at Feb. 22, 2021
Joe Hisaishi - Dream Songs: The Essential Joe Hisaishi (2020)

Joe Hisaishi – Dream Songs: The Essential Joe Hisaishi (2020)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 620 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 302 Mb | 02:11:46
Easy Listening, Classical, Soundtrack | Label: Decca Records

Joe Hisaishi, the acclaimed Japanese composer behind some of the world’s best-loved anime films, has announced his new album, Dream Songs: The Essential Joe Hisaishi, will be released on 21 February. On the same day thirty albums from the composer’s extensive catalogue will be released on streaming services worldwide for the first time ever.

Takuya Kuroda - Zigzagger (2016) [Official Digital Download]  Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at Aug. 17, 2022
Takuya Kuroda - Zigzagger (2016) [Official Digital Download]

Takuya Kuroda - Zigzagger (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Time - 59:11 minutes | 737 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

Whether moving from Japan to the U.S. or navigating between the influences of jazz, soul, hip-hop, Afrobeat and electronica, trumpeter/composer Takuya Kuroda has never followed a straight path. On his fifth studio album and Concord Records debut, the aptly named "Zigzagger", Kuroda darts between those wide-ranging interests with a funky swagger and an intensely swinging vigor. The deeply infectious album finds the trumpeter snaking his way around the opposing poles of acoustic and electric, bristling grooves and blissed-out vibes, punchy brass and fluid synths, carving his own distinctive sonic path along the way.
VA - WaJazz: Japanese Jazz Spectacle Vol 1-2 Deep, Heavy and Beautiful Jazz from Japan 1962-1985 (2022/2023)

VA - WaJazz: Japanese Jazz Spectacle Vol 1-2 Deep, Heavy and Beautiful Jazz from Japan 1962-1985 (2022/2023)
FLAC (tracks) - 973 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 382 MB
1:24:55 + 1:21:39 | Free Jazz, Hard Bop, Jazz-Funk, Jazz-Rock | Label: Deep Jazz Reality, Universounds, 180g

Universounds, HMV Record Shop and 180g team up for an exceptional release: from blazing hard bop to free jazz, to introspective saxophone solos and massive big band sounds, renowned Japanese jazz expert Yusuke Ogawa presents an essential 14 track collection of “WaJazz” music taken from the Nippon Columbia vaults. Featuring Jiro Inagaki, Minoru Muraoka, Hiroshi Suzuki, Hozan Yamamoto, Count Buffalo, Takeshi Inomata, and much more!

T-Square - Wish (2022)  Vinyl & HR

Posted by v3122 at July 30, 2022
T-Square - Wish (2022)

T-Square - Wish (2022)
FLAC (Tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Official Digital Download | Time: 00:42:57
Jazz Rock | Orange Lady | ~ 1.01 Gb

"T-SQUARE alpha" started its activities as a unit form of Takeshi Itoh and Satoshi Bandoh 44 years after his professional debut in 1978. The name T-SQUARE alpha has the meaning of plus alpha that something is added freely to the next…

La Luz - La Luz (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/88]  Vinyl & HR

Posted by pyatak at Oct. 22, 2021
La Luz - La Luz (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/88]

La Luz - La Luz (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/88]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/88.2 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 37:28 minutes | 807 MB
Rock| Label: Hardly Art, Official Digital Download

On their fourth album, California surf-rock band La Luz chill out a bit. There's little of the needling, propulsive dance music that have inspired audiences to stage dive and crowd surf. Sure, you could still do that to songs like "Metal Man," with its spaced-out Jetsons synth and hip-shaking bells, but you don't necessarily want to be aloft when the slow-dredge chorus rolls in. With its throbbing bass, haunted-house keyboards and jangling tambourine, "The Pines" might be the band's most "dance-y" song on this record.

José James - No Beginning No End 2 (2020)  Music

Posted by delpotro at May 23, 2020
José James - No Beginning No End 2 (2020)

José James - No Beginning No End 2 (2020)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) | 00:51:01 | 300 Mb
Soul | Label: Rainbow Blonde Records

José James spent a decade reshaping jazz with the genre-blurring verve of a crate-digging beat guru, before becoming a solo R&B star. The last couple years he lived in Bill Withers' shoes — recording and touring his legendary songbook for the Lean On Me project. Now, the satin-voiced songwriter's latest is No Beginning No End 2, a sequel to his 2013 album that resurrects the bold eclecticism audiences first fell in love with. After the Bill Withers tour, James recalls: “I wrote a thing on Instagram saying I was thinking about No Beginning No End 2 and people went insane. They wrote thousands of comments about how the first one changed their life. I don't sit around and think 'my work is so important' so that was kinda nice."