Studio Mule Vinyl, CD & Tape 17 Items

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Fumio Itabashi, Henrik Schwarz & Kuniyuki

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Moogroove is a self unit of Japanese house music producer “Kenji Eto”.

This release was originally released in 1994 on Mo rhythm records.

It’s a first class 90’s deep house and it’s quite hard to find out the original copy.

Enjoy!

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Watarase Joe Claussell Remix

12" | 2022 | EU | Original (Studio Mule)

25,99 €*

Fumio Itabashi, Henrik Schwarz & Kuniyuki

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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after great rework of jan jazz classic “watarase” by fumio itabashi,henrik schwarz,kuniyuki, joe claussell reconstructed “watarase”. it’s an epic cosmic jazz fusion.joe claussell meets kuniyuki are always best. on b side, it’s a rare minyo(japanese folk song) version of watarase. it’s a live version that fumio itabashi played with the local orchestra and minyo singer. a lot of diggers have been wishing to be released on vinyl. so this release is one of the most important catalogue on studio mule.

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Watarase

12" | 2021 | EU | Original (Studio Mule)

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Rise And Shine: Live At The Aketa's

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Fumio Itabashi Trio

LP | 1977 | EU | Reissue (Studio Mule)

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Studio Mule)

Release: 1977 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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This is the third reissue of fumio itabashi on mule.

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Song For Joni

12" | 2022 | EU | Original (Studio Mule)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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A pure journey inward into the headspace of an artist, that reveals his gaze at the earth-ly zones he walks in: “Song for Joni”, the new album by Japanese musician Shunji Mori, brings pure natural music full of artificial nuances who create in conversation with ana-logue tones a new kind of musical nature, loaded with vibrant seasons, unknown to us, the unwise humans. moreover, the album is a fine continuation of Japan’s rich ambient leaning music traditions, carrying them into Lorren Connor’s like pending guitar galaxies.

In the 1990s Tokyo based Mori was part of the trip hop, nu-jazz, deep house, and down-tempo duo natural calamity, releasing a string of albums and EP’s on labels like legend-ary London based imprint Nuphonic, Japanese Idyllic Records or Down 2 Earth Record-ings.

In 2003 he launched the instrumental guitar duo Gabby & Lopez with his buddy Masayuki Ishii. Together they created three albums and performed live. Additionally, Mori plays improvisational concerts with Japanese musician, multi-instrumentalist, and stage direc-tor Daiho Soga and finds time to invent his very own, charismatic guitar music.

His solo work now finally gets introduced with a full-length album for Studio Mule, con-sisting of recent and a decade ago compositions, all merely recorded with the electric guitar, pedals, and field recordings.

In the center of “Song for Joni” is the guitar, spreading longing, drifting melodies. Free floating, yet deeply felt compositions, performed in an accurate journey music style. around the string notes, ambient landscapes soar and vanish.

In some moments, the guitar works like a slow-mo yacht rock lead, flying speed less over and under imaginative sonic clouds. Then, Mori’s music distributes psychedelic ef-fects in the tradition of krautrock legends like Günter Schickert, just without the echo fuzz.

Additionally, in warm vibrating seconds, his creations remind on the calm flashes in the musical work of English photographer, musician, and artist designer Steve Hiett, while Mori’s ambient spheres come close to the magic vibe of records like “Pier & Loft” by his fellow countryman Hiroshi Yoshimura.

A mixture, that transports considerate listeners into the meditative world of Shunji Mori, a calm island of bliss, made for all those that follow the heedful path of life.

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Moogroove

Dark Room

19,99 €*

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Studio Mule)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Moogroove is a self unit of Japanese house music producer “Kenji Eto”. This release is originally released in 1994 on Mo Rhythm Records. It was a top secret 90’s Japanese house record until Danilo Plessow aka Motor City Drum Ensemble selected “Dark Room” from this EP for his Fabric compilation. First straight reissue with great artwork from Lily Fei. All tracks are first class underground deep house. Enjoy.

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Eiki Nonaka

A-Key

LP | 1986 | EU | Reissue (Studio Mule)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Once again Studio Mule dives deep into the music history of Japan, unearthing the multi-colored album “A-Key” by Eiki Nonaka, released as CD only on the short living japanese label Sun & Moon Records in 1995. An album, that uniquely unifies global ethnic music styles, the playfulness of Jazz, innovative electronic soundscapes, and the winding per-sonality of spiritual music.

It’s the only solo album of a musician, that is triggering the advanced electrified japanese music culture since the early 1980ees. Eiki Nonaka was part of electronic New Age quartet interiors, releasing the two minimalistic, synth-pop leaning albums “Interior” and “design” in 1982 and 1987. likewise, he was a member of Haruomi Hosono’s band friends of earth, playing, voicing, and tuning the drum machine, guitar, synthesizers, and mi-crophone on their second landmark experimental Pop Electronic album “Sex, Energy and Star”, released Hosono’s outstanding non-standard label in 1986.

His one and only solo album “A-Key” features the essence of all his musical journeys until 1995, bringing, as he puts it on his blog http://www.viewz.jp, “all my musical career up to that point designed in sounds that were ringing in my head at that time. It's extremely introspective, but the various mental landscapes of that time are still vibrating fresh and acoustically new.”

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Yas-Kaz

Virgo Indigo

22,99 €*

Ryo Kawasaki & The Golden Dragon

Release: 1986 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Studio mule is back with another amazement, opening the roster towards sophisticated spiritual sounds on the crossroads of electrified jazz, oriental fourth-world spheres and deeply composed experimental sounds. this time the label welcomes japanese artist ya-sukazu sato aka yas-kaz, a university-trained percussionist, that gained global success as a composer for the internationally known butoh dance troupe sankai juku, that tours around the world since 1975. his infrequent musical amalgamation of ancient eastern genres, airy soundscapes, and ritualistic dance percussions perfectly accompanied the modern dance movements of an avantgarde dance group that is known for slow, mesmerizing dance passages, whose repetitive body movements sometimes focusing only on the feet or fingers. besides his theatre work, yas-kaz composed scores for japanese movies, performed live along stars like us-american jazz saxophonist wayne shorter or legendary japanese new-age musical group himekami and recorded a number of collabo-rative and solo albums.

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Little Tree

LP | 1980 | EU | Reissue (Studio Mule)

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Studio Mule)

Release: 1980 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Japanese legendary jazz guitarist “ryo kawasaki”,some of his famous works are like mellow jazz fusion masterpiece “tarika blue”,dance jazz classic “trinkets&things”,cosmic new wave jazz “lucky lady”.

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Takayuki Shiraishi

Missing Link

22,99 €*

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Studio Mule)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Japanese living legend electronic producer Takayuki Shiraishi; this is a collection of his unreleased materials in late 80’s. He has started the career as his unit “BGM” on most reevaluated japanese experimental label “Vanity Records”. one&only the album “Back Ground Music” have been one of the most demanded japanese new wave record. the album is unique mixture of dark new wave, post punk,kraut rock and experimental electronic music. the first reissue of “BGM/Back Ground Music” is coming this autumn.

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BGM

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LP | 1988 | EU | Reissue (Studio Mule)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Mule Musiq's sub label studio mule has formed a group of shifting members and are now releasing a debut album with 8 tracks of reworked obscure japanese gems. The album contains the three singles the group released so far, featuring miyako koda of the ex-perimental pop band dip in the pool, whose "on retinae" was reissued by music from memory to great acclaim, on vocals and mule musiq staple kuniyuki on production with direction by label head Toshiya Kawasaki.

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Doctor Umezu Diva

Diva Feat. Midori Takada

LP | 1986 | EU | Reissue (Studio Mule)

Release: 1988 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Doctor Umezu diva is a japanese sax player Kazutoki Umezu’s one off project which he invited two female artists, one is a legendary marimba player Midori Takada and one more is a vocalist&pianist and half of japanese newwave band colored music in the end of 80’s. This album was one of the best kept secret jazz album from Japan. Dubby from ondas tokyo(he compiled “va/midnight in tokyo vol.2” on studio mule) brought me this record. It was really hard to find as the amount of copies has been very limited. This album is a unique mixture of modern classical sound and avant-garde jazz which is kind of similar with strata east or nimbus.

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Motohiko Hamase

Intaglio

Shinzo No Tobira Feat. Miyako Koda

Release: 1986 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Currently the rediscovery of long forgotten japanese electronic, jazz and new age music is at a peak like never before. But although many re-issues already flood the record stores around the world: the large, diverse musical culture of Japan still got some gems in store that are really missing. For example, it is still quiet around the the work of japanese bass player, new-age and ambient musician Motohiko Hamase. When the today 66-years old artist started to be a professional musician in the 1970’s, he quickly gained success as a versed studio instrumentalist and started to be part of the great modern jazz Isao Suzuki sextett, where he played with legends like pianist Tsuyoshi Yamamoto or fusion guitar one-off-a-kind Kazumi Watanabe.

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Studio Mule

12" | 2018 | EU | Original (Studio Mule)

12,99 €*

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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It’s the 2nd release of Studio Mule’s new project with Miyako Koda aka Dip In The Pool. Following the cover version of Ohnuki Taeko’s carnaval, we made the new version of japanese new wave classic “Shinzo No Tibia by Mariah” with a new lyrics in japanese(original is in armenian)which is written by Miyako Koda. Yasuaki Shimizu kindly gave us the permission to do this. Extended version on a side is full of the respect for the original version and dub version on b side is dark new wave dub version. Kuniyuki said the idea of this version came from Adrian Sherwood’s remix for Depeche Mode.

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Soshi Takeda

Same Place, Another Time

28,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Sakura Tsuruta

C/O

23,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tenderly propelling and full of haunting melodies: Studio Mule re-issues Sakura Tsuruta’s so far digital only, self-released debut album “c / o” from november 2022.

An evocative first long player by Tokyo based artist, who was trained in classical piano during childhood, played with brass instruments, studied music production, and is today active as a composer, live performer, and versatile dj.

With “c / o” she expressed her personal history in a fluid, around 43-minute long light flooded, yet dark-ish musical vision. eight profoundly composed tracks, melding complex rhythms with emotional airs, tripping arpeggios, and ghostly sounds, slightly influenced by some of her fa-vorite artist like björk, holly herndon, or kaitlyn aurelia smith.

“c / o is a love letter for the experiences, people, and memories i had in the last two years that i spent producing this album. i also like that the letter “c” looks like an incomplete circle, whereas the letter “o” is a full circle.

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Eiki Nonaka

A-Key Remixed

17,99 €*