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🔥OUT TODAY🔥
BRION GYSIN
DREAMACHINE (1984/92)

1st vinyl release of #briongysin’s cult recordings, produced by #ramuntchomatta in the 80s and early 90s and mixing minimalism, ambient and Funk/afrobeat. Remastered audio and New liner notes by Jason Weiss

Order (LP/Digi) bit.ly/4aChTA4

Ryuichi Sakamoto & Toshiyuki Tsuchitori – Disappointment-Hateruma Ryuichi Sakamoto & Toshiyuki Tsuchitori – Disappointment-Hateruma

#toshitsuchitori @ryuichisakamoto.bsky.social "Disappointment-Hateruma" reviewed at #HHVMag by Albert Koch @thethealbert.bsky.social

"...moving between ambient textures, deconstructed Japanese folk and Musique concrète"

www.hhv-mag.com/review/ryuic...

Tokyo Pulse :: Japanese Funk, Modern Soul and City Pop from The Tokyo Scene 1974-88 - Aquarium Drunkard The recent algorithmic explosion of Japanese city pop with Haruomi Hosono, Yoshiko Sai, Masayoshi Takanaka, and others didn't even come close to exhausting the otherworldly fertility of the genre. For...

#Tokyopulse featured at @aquariumdrunkard.com

"Tokyo-based #DJnotoya selected lost, hidden, and obscured city pop tracks, none of which have quite entered the Western market yet"

aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/03/10/t...

The Toshi Tsuchitori-Ryuichi Sakamoto album is reviewed this month at @thewiremagazine.bsky.social by Daniel Spicer 🔥🔥

The Digest for March 2026: New Music/The Social Playlist The monthly Digest includes a clutch of accumulated short new music reviews and the social inter-generational/eclectic and anniversary albums celebrating picks. Image: Credited to the Asian Arts In…

It's been a shitty year for me health wise, in and out of hospital the last two months. But I found time to post this little revue and selection of tunes. @wewantsounds.bsky.social @muterecords.bsky.social

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🔥OUT 1 MAY🔥
TOKYO PULSE
JAPANESE FUNK, MODERN SOUL & CITY POP
SELECTED BY DJ NOTOYA

The latest instalment in Wewantsounds' series of rare 70s/80s #Japanese funk and soul selected by #djnotoya feat. #yumimurata #higurashi and #namishimada

Pre-order LP/CD/Digital www.wewantsounds.bandcamp.com

Dubmission #1,399 New music on the show this week from Kylie Auldist, Phew & Danielle de Picciotto, Sababa 5, Atabasca, Anna Prior, Nao Yoshioka, Shane Sato & Braxton Cook, Alcides Neto, Gabriel Vicéns, Kyla Kilzer & M...

Hany Shenouda "Lounga 85" from #AyamElDisco selected by #DiscoArabesquo featured on Kerem Gokmen's latest @dubmission.bsky.social playlist 🔥❤️

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Lee Mason And His Orchestra "Music By Lee Mason", Chappell, 1971 (2026 reissue on Wewantsounds). This English #librarymusic classic, finally re-released! #leemason #musicbyleemasion #chatiskandaria #wewantsounds #vinyl #nowplaying #musicsky #vinylsky #vinylcommunity @wewantsounds.bsky.social

Ryuichi Sakamoto / Toshiyuki Tsuchitori - DISAPPOINTMENT-HATERUMA Remastered by Heba Kadry, percussionist Toshi Tsuchitori and Ryuichi Sakamoto's bizarre 1976 outlier is finally on vinyl for the first time. Inspired by free jazz, Balinese gamelan music, classical mi...

Toshi Tsuchitori-Ryuichi Sakamoto reviewed at @boomkat.com ♥️♥️

"Finally on vinyl for the first time. Inspired by free jazz, Balinese gamelan music, classical minimalism, musique concrète, it's completely groundbreaking"

@skmtofficial.bsky.social

Deep honor to write liner notes for this crazy Sakamoto album, a free-improv beast cut when he was still in college. Also dope to work on an album project with the legend, Heba Kadry.

OUT TODAY !
TOSHI TSUCHITORI - RYUICHI SAKAMOTO "DISAPPOINTMENT-HATERUMA" (1976)

#ryuichisakamoto's first album, recorded for ALM Records with Toshi Tsuchitori, reissued for the 1st time Remastered by Heba Kadry, Liner notes by Andy Beta @andybeta.bsky.social

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Review of Ryuichi Sakamoto & Toshiyuki Tsuchitori's Disappointment-Hateruma: Revisiting a radical blueprint Fifty years on, the first meeting of Ryuichi Sakamoto and Toshiyuki Tsuchitori is reissued on vinyl, revealing a breathtaking collision of gamelan, free jazz, and electronic ambition that pre-empted a...

the Disappointment-Hateruma album gets reviewed at @thelineofbestfit.com by Ray Honeybourne✨

"Clearly, this is an album of interest in considering specifically the career of #RyuichiSakamoto. Yet, it is more than this"

www.thelineofbestfit.com/albums/ryuic...

AYAM EL DISCO – EGYPTIAN DISCO, BOOGIE & JEEL CASSETTES 1978 -92 / WEWANTSOUNDS – By Cal Gibson Super review by Cal Gibson, of The Secret Soul Society. It was almost four years ago that Moataz Rageb (Disco Arabesquo) put together the first Sharayet El Disco compilation of Egyptian disco casse…

#Ayameldisco compiled by #DiscoArabesquo reviewed at #banbantonton by Cal Gibson ❤🔥❤

"it’s one hell of a firing soundtrack to the beat-led conundrum of life."

banbantonton.com/2026/02/23/a...

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Lee Mason & his Orchestra – Music by Lee Mason Lee Mason & his Orchestra – Music by Lee Mason

#LeeMason "Music by Lee Mason" LP reviewed at #HHVMag by Albert Koch @thethealbert.bsky.social

"Restless strings and vibrant brass collide with funky, jazzy grooves, Hammond organ, harpsichord, and flutes"
HHV Records"

www.hhv-mag.com/review/lee-m...

#yoshikosai Mikkou gets a 9/10 review in @popmatters.com by Adriane Pontecorvo @adrianeontheair.bsky.social 💫✨

Great #wewantsounds label profile in @shindigmagazine.bsky.social this month 🔥🔥

Big thanks to the Andy Morten and Shindig team !

🔥OUT TODAY🔥
YOSHIKO SAI
MIKKOU (1976)

#yoshikosai's highly sought-after funk folk cult classic "Mikkou" from 1976 featuring #masayoshitakanaka. Remastered audio with original artwork and new liner notes by Hashim Kotaro Bharoocha.

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AMMAR EL SHEREI "Sooq" FROM "AYAM EL DISCO" OUT 3 APR 2026 ON WEWANTSOUNDS YouTube video by WEWANTSOUNDS

Ammar El Sherei - “Souq” (1981)
عمار الشريعي – السوق

from ‘Ayam El Disco’ - a new compilation of Egyptian disco, boogie and jeel cassette tracks from the ‘80s, forthcoming on @wewantsounds.bsky.social

youtu.be/dImLPe7HPu8

OUT 3 APR
AYAM EL DISCO
EGYPTIAN DISCO, BOOGIE & JEEL CASSETTES 1978-1992 - SELECTED BY DISCO ARABESQUO

Highly sough-after egyptian #disco, #boogie and #jeel cassette tracks selected by #DiscoArabesquo and released on LP for the first time🔥🔥

Order LP bit.ly/4aYJ48i

Snide Rhythms - 05.02.26 Listen to Snide Rhythms - 05.02.26 by EHFM

#hitomipennytohyama in #sniderhythms' latest playlist on
EHFM 🔥🔥

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Today 6 Feb 2026 -- until Midnight PST -- wewantsounds.bandcamp.com

Perusal #76: Howling Bells, The Odes, Magda Drozd, Yoshiko Sai… A world of sonic/musical discoveries reviewed by Dominic Valvona. All entries in alphabetical order. Magda Drozd ‘Divided By Dusk’(Präsens Editionen) 13th February 2026 Coupling a renewed interest …

Finally home form hospital, but long recovery lies ahead. I've managed however to post new reviews for albums by Howling Bells, Ira Dot, Ted Milton & Sam Britton's The Odes team-up, @pefkin.bsky.social and @wewantsounds.bsky.social @unsunghunger.bsky.social

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🔥OUT TODAY 🔥
LEE MASON
MUSIC BY LEE MASON (1971)

Ultra rare UK Library music classic by #LeeMason featuring "Shady Blues" sampled by #Madlib
First LP reissue - remastered with new intro by Kevin Le Gendre.

Order: bit.ly/4oH0h9X

Dubmission episode 1,395 📻

Featuring new 🎶 from
🔸 Pouf Pouf Pantoufle
🔸 Atabasca
🔸 Satoshi Fumi
+
🔶 Brion Gysin & Ramuntcho Matta forthcoming on @wewantsounds.bsky.social

Listen 🎧 www.mixcloud.com/dubmission/d...

Listen to my 2020 Ramuntcho Matta Interview

STREAM ▶️ www.mixcloud.com/Observations...

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BRION GYSIN "Dreamachine Pt 1" FROM DREAMACHINE - OUT 13 MAR 2026 ON WEWANTSOUNDS YouTube video by WEWANTSOUNDS

BRION GYSIN "Dreamachine Pt 1" FROM DREAMACHINE - OUT 13 MAR 2026 ON @wewantsounds.bsky.social

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BRION GYSIN - The Door Feat. Steve Lacy - FROM DREAMACHINE - OUT 13 MAR 2026 ON WEWANTSOUNDS YouTube video by WEWANTSOUNDS

BRION GYSIN - The Door Feat. Steve Lacy - FROM DREAMACHINE - OUT 13 MAR 2026 ON @wewantsounds.bsky.social

Ramuntcho Matta: Tapes, Effects
Recorded and Mixed at Ramuntcho’s studio , Paris, 1984
Produced by Ramuntcho Matta

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OUT 13 MAR 26
BRION GYSIN
DREAMACHINE (1984/92)

First vinyl release of #briongysin’s cult recordings, produced by #RamuntchoMatta in the 80s and early 90s and mixing minimalism, ambient and Funk/afrobeat. With liner notes by #JasonWeiss

Order (LP/Digi) bit.ly/4aChTA4