The Story
In the late 1970s and early 80s, disco swept through dancefloors across the world, with musicians, producers and labels in all four corners of the world recording and releasing their own local variations on the New York-pioneered sound. This fine compilation digs into the Japanese interpretation of the sound, offering up a selection of gems pulled from the vaults of the Nippon Columbia imprint. As you'd expect, there are some genuinely soaring and delightfully over-the-top cuts on show (see Godiego's 'The Odyssey Begins - Monkey Magic' and the disco-funk mania of Ikue Sakakibara's bilingual 'This Is Hot'), alongside such forgotten or lesser-celebrated gems as Yumi Moreta's rubbery bass-propelled 'Krishna', the strings-and-synth-drenched brilliance of Pink Parachute's 'Disco Great' and the ridiculously grandiose 'Hazumi De Daitte (A Woman Inside a Man's Body)' by Hatsumi Shibata.
Track list:
1 Godiego - the Birth of the Odyssey - Monkey Magic
2 Ikue Sakakibara - This Is Hot
3 Soul Media - I Will Give You Samba
4 Hatsumi Shibata - Purple Shadow
5 Yumi Murata - Krishna
6 Yoshito Machida·Godiego - Ame Wa Knife No Yo Sa
7 Pink Parachute - Disco Great Tokyo
8 Hatsumi Shibata - Hazumi de Daite (A Woman in a Man's World)
Description
In the late 1970s and early 80s, disco swept through dancefloors across the world, with musicians, producers and labels in all four corners of the world recording and releasing their own local variations on the New York-pioneered sound. This fine compilation digs into the Japanese interpretation of the sound, offering up a selection of gems pulled from the vaults of the Nippon Columbia imprint. As you'd expect, there are some genuinely soaring and delightfully over-the-top cuts on show (see Godiego's 'The Odyssey Begins - Monkey Magic' and the disco-funk mania of Ikue Sakakibara's bilingual 'This Is Hot'), alongside such forgotten or lesser-celebrated gems as Yumi Moreta's rubbery bass-propelled 'Krishna', the strings-and-synth-drenched brilliance of Pink Parachute's 'Disco Great' and the ridiculously grandiose 'Hazumi De Daitte (A Woman Inside a Man's Body)' by Hatsumi Shibata.
Track list:
1 Godiego - the Birth of the Odyssey - Monkey Magic
2 Ikue Sakakibara - This Is Hot
3 Soul Media - I Will Give You Samba
4 Hatsumi Shibata - Purple Shadow
5 Yumi Murata - Krishna
6 Yoshito Machida·Godiego - Ame Wa Knife No Yo Sa
7 Pink Parachute - Disco Great Tokyo
8 Hatsumi Shibata - Hazumi de Daite (A Woman in a Man's World)
