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Tsunaki Kadowaki, a staff member at Kyotos record store Meditations, the supervisor of “New Age Music Disc Guide”, and the founder of Sad Disco, curates the fourth installment of Midnight in Tokyo themed around Ambient Kay. The Midnight in Tokyo series by Studio Mule focuses on Japanese music, serving as a soundtrack for Tokyo nightswhether for home listening, club play, or as a driving BGM, transcending location and space. After a six-year hiatus, the fourth volume takes “Ambient Kay” as its new perspective, compiling genre-defying tracks released between 1977 and1999 to explore the intersection of Japanese ambient and pop music.For this long-awaited fourth installment, selections were made regardless of record label status (major or independent), era, format (vinyl or CD), original release price, or prior reissues. Instead, the focus was on music that deeply moves the listener, is open-minded and evocative, brims with inspiration and spiritual insight, and embodies the “utagokoro” (singing heart) of Japanese artists.
The album presents 12 exquisite pop tracks infused with an ambient feeling, resonating deeply with the evolving landscape of the mid-2020sa time of post-hyperpop and Y2K revival. Tsunaki Kadowaki has written liner notes for multiple Japanese releases (Brian Eno, Masahiro Sugaya etc.) and runs the Sad Disco music label under Disk Union. He also curates Spotifys official New Age Music playlist and performed as a DJ at YCAMs Audio Base Camp #3 in 2024. via Label
Label:Studio Mule
Series:Midnight In Tokyo Vol. 4
Format:2 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation
Released:2025
Genre:Electronic
Style:Balearic, Downtempo, Ambient
File under: Japanese Electronic
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