Fumio Itabashi's highly sought-after album "Watarase" hailed as one of the great Japanese jazz albums and featuring Itabashi on solo piano playing an inspired mix of standards and originals.

One of the most innovative and ambitious albums ever made, Genioh Yamashirogumi’s Ecophony Rinne is a sonic masterpiece featuring over 200 musicians that expanded the limits of what music and sound could do.

A compilation of reworks of Haruomi Hosono’s iconic solo debut, ‘Hosono House’, celebrating 50 years since its release. This compilation sees musicians from the Stones Throw roster and beyond offer up their own interpretations of Hosono’s songs.

Released at the height of the electric fusion era, ‘Stop Over’ is an all-acoustic hard bop killer, sounding like the Jazz Messengers on speed. When it was originally issued on the private Smile label in 1976.

This compilation uncovers some of the most sought after and rare material from 1969-1984 and pulls together key artists who shaped the post-war modern jazz scene in Japan.

Deep Modern Jazz from Japan 1969–1984 is a carefully curated collection showcasing the very finest of Japanese modern jazz. Featuring rare tracks and timeless recordings, it captures the depth, creativity, and unique spirit of Japan’s vibrant jazz scene.

Since 2018, the J Jazz series has showcased standout Japanese jazz from the 1960s–80s. Blending samba, funk fusion, modal, spiritual, post-bop, and bossa, it captures the richness and evolving sound of a dynamic jazz scene.

Highlighting key recordings from 1968–1981, this collection spans solo to big band, jazz classical interpretations and heavy jazz rock, from febrile post-bop and white-hot samba fusion to modal psychedelic wig-outs—capturing the bold range and energy of Japan’s evolving jazz scene.

This final volume features a selection of tracks that is as diverse as it is deep, reflecting the rich and varied Japanese jazz scene that spanned from the late 1960s to the late 1980s, a golden era of innovation and creativity.

Flipping rhythms from Guadeloupe, Cuba, Senegal and Puerto Rico, Time Capsule founder Kay Suzuki releases an acid-soaked collection of remixes that transcends time and space.

A classic reissue of an iconic soundtrack for a legendary film: Ghost in the Shell by Kenji Kawai. The score for this 1995 animated science fiction masterpiece is a chilling blend of futurism and tradition, balancing wistful, half-remembered melodies with icy meditations on the world to come.

First ever official reissue of the positively sublime and very rare Butterfly LP, recorded in Tokyo in 1979 by Japanese songstress Kimiko Kasai and jazz legend Herbie Hancock.

Exceptional collection of jazz funk / rare groove tunes recorded in the mid-seventies at the Nippon Columbia studios.

Topology by Makoto Terashita and Harold Land, originally released in 1983 on the cult Aketa’s Disk label, documents a compelling collaboration between a young Japanese pianist and an elder American statesman of jazz.

The debut album from pianist Masao Nakajima. Recorded in 1979 on Yupiteru Records, it’s an elusive beast in the field of J Jazz and balances delicate and refined playing with power and vigour.

Get onboard with this explosive encounter of Japanese folk songs and latin rhythms!

A rare Japanese jazz album from the 1970s, originally released in 1979 on ALM, a cult private-press label.

Monster Japanese Jazz-Funk classic recorded in 1970 by arranger Norio Maeda for Teichiku Records and widely available for the first time with newly remastered audio and liner by Paul Bowler.

Ongaku Zukan was Sakamoto’s fourth solo album and features contributions from Yellow Magic Orchestra’s Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi, and Yasuaki Shimizu, Tatsuro Yamashita and Toshinori Kondo.

Ryuichi Sakamoto's first solo album — recorded in 1978 before Yellow Magic Orchestra had released a note — reissued on vinyl outside Japan for the first time in decades. A blueprint for the YMO sound, remastered from the original tapes by Seigen Ono.

Free Fight is a powerful debut from one of Japan’s most distinctive jazz voices. Originally released in 1988 on the private Mobys label with Stir Up!, it introduced Hayasaka as an artist of rare intensity and imagination.

Recorded in December 1990 at the jazz club Lovely in Nagoya, this set sees Moriyama’s quartet deliver an exemplary session of the finest modal, post-bop and spiritual jazz.

The Highly sought-after Japanese ‘Imaginary’ disco funk soundtrack from 1977 featuring the cream of the Tokyo scene gets officially reissued for the first time outside of Japan.

A live recording from the foot of Mount Fuji - Yussef Dayes joined by Minami Kizuki, vocalist and sanshin player from Amami Island, in a meeting of cultures, rhythms, and spirit inspired by the landscapes of Japan.