Sources for Japanese music : Japanese Pop : http://www.wildsscene.com/music/japanese.html Japanese (commercial) pop pages (French/Japanese) at http://www.jpopfrance.com/ Japanese 60's bands at http://60spunk.m78.com/menu2.htm#gs Japan reviews at http://stevehegede.tripod.com/japan.htm Japanese progressive (in Japanese) http://park.zero.ad.jp/vacatono/ & http://jprog.esmartmusic.com/main_fset.html Improvised music from Japan : http://www.japanimprov.com/ Internet addresses of labels/distributors of Japanese progressive / independent music (references to names and a few more addresses are to be found in the 'J.I.M.' book) -Noise labels are not included- : * Acid Mother's Temple : http://www.acidmothers.com/index_AMTSoulCollective.html Contact : shopzone@acidmothers.com & acidmothers@hotmail.com psychedelic * Alchemy Records : http://www.alchemy.cc/ Contact : alchemy@records.office.ne.jp experimental * Aliens8 Recordings http://www.alien8recordings.com/ Contact : alien8@alien8recordings.com experimental * Amoebic http://www.japanimprov.com/indies/amoebic/index.html Contact : sonfa@mc.kcom.ne.jp * Art Union (Isis) http://www.gardencity.or.jp/~artunion/u-pop/index.html Indi.distr. Rock,pop,punk, fujii@iea.att.ne.jp * Asian Improv Rec. http://www.asianimprov.com/ free music * Avant/ DIW http://www.diskunion.co.jp/ Contact : sato@diskunion.co.jp * Belle Antique http://www.marquee.co.jp/ progressive (sub label avalon is heavy metal : http://www.marquee.co.jp/avalon/) fax 0081 (0)3 3954 9563 * Captain Trip Records : http://plaza14.mbn.or.jp/~captaintrip/jpn9.html cpttrip@md.xaxon.ne.jp * Charnel Music http://www.charnel.com/charnel/ charnel@charnel.com psychedelic * Chilldisc http://www.childisc.com/ * Cold Spring Records Contact address not known experimental ? * Cragale records http://muon2.hoops.livedoor.com exp. ? * Detector E-mail/Web Page not known psych * Forced Exposure distribution : http://www.forcedexposure.com/bin/search.pl * Fractal Rec. www.fractal-records.com fractal.rec@wanadoo.fr (High Rise,..) * God Mountain E-mail / Web Page unknown * Gyuune Rec. http://www.threeweb.ad.jp/~minor/gyuune/gyuune.shtml minor@osk.3web.ne.jp indipendent tapes ? * IDN/ Inner Direct Email/Web Page not known distr. * Kromhoorn Rec. http://www.mmjp.or.jp/ROBAHOUSE/cde.html E-mail unknown * Kuwagata Rec. contemp ? * La Musica Rec. http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Gala/3935/ E-mail unknown underground, psych * Last Visible Dog Rec. http://lvd.4mg.com lvd_orders@hotmail.com or maggpaw@hotmail.com * Magaibutsu Limited E-mail unknown Ruins,.. * Majikick Rec. http://www.moon.sannet.ne.jp/majikick/ majikick@hotmail.com rock, pop indep. ? * Mechanics www.geocities.co.jp/Hollywood-Kouen/9003/ harpyitoken@nifty.com * Meme/Unknownmix meme-@msh.biglobe.ne.jp free music ? * Musea has a few Japanese releases : http://217.128.227.4/museamagasin/Anglais/default.asp musea@wanadoo.fr * Nux Organization http://www.kknull.com/ null@kknull.com modern exp ? * Omega Point Records http://homepage2.nifty.com/paganmusik/omega/top.html exp, contemp, rio, sound, noise HQJ06123@nifty.ne.jp * Oz Disc : http://www3.to/ozdisc E-mail : ozdisc@kf6.so-net.ne.jp * Pale Blue Contact address unknown free ? * Pandemonium Rec. Distribution : filth@pandemoniumrecords.com www.pandemoniumrecords.com * Pataphysique Records http://www.ne.jp/asahi/pataphysique/records/ E-mail : pata@silver.email.ne.jp * PSF rec. http://homepage2.nifty.com/PSF/ fax 0081 (0)3 3322 4905 American site : http://www.neaccess.net/~psf * P-vine / Blues Interactions www.bls-act.co.jp Contact at http://www.bls-act.co.jp/contact.html * Readymade records / Heat Wave Contact : funatsu_suguru@denon.co.jp * Record Heaven http://www.recordheaven.net/ see section Japan (on line sale) * ReR Megacorp distribution http://www.rermegacorp.com/index.htm megacorp@dial.pipex.com * (Shimmy Disc www.shimmydisc.com distributor http://www.knittingfactory.com/labels/labels_shimmy.cfm * Shinkhai Records www.sol.dti.ne.jp/~shinkhai small label * Skingraft Rec. www.skingraftrecords.com info@skingraftrecords.com * Solstice Records http://personal4.iddeo.es/koji/index2.html E-mail : info@solstice-europe.com, info@solstice-japan.com * Sonore Records www.sonore.com stofer@sonore.com (label from book) * Soup disk www.soup-disk.com silver@soup-disk.com modern impro ? * SSE Comm. www.serve.com/knightcrash sseinfo@gol.com * Suisei Rec. www.na.rim.or.jp/~emu/ emu@na.rim.or.jp small ind.label * Syn-Phonic Music: http://synphonic.8m.com/country/japan.htm (on line sale) * Tag Rag tagrag@ma3.justnet.ne.jp impro ? * Three Blind Mice http://www.tvz.com/TBM/index_e.html jazz label tbm@tvz.com * Tilqua Contact : tiliqua@belgacom.net free music, progressive,.. * Toshiba-EMI www.toshiba-emi.co.jp * Transonic Records catalogue : http://www.flavour.org/tr.html * Tzadik www.tzadik.com tzadik@tzadik.com * Vanilla Records http://start.at/vanilla vanilla@dance.ne.jp * Vaseline Rec. Xper_xr@hotmail.com * Vinyl Japan Contact unknown * ZK Rec. Contact addresses unknown * 360° Rec. www.360.co.jp/j/shop/shop.html (PS: they released a tribute to Moondog ) gallery@360.co.jp Record stores in Tokyo : http://www.bento.com/rekodoya.html Label links http://metajour.50megs.com/linkpage/labelsa.htm