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First released in 1992, this 12-track compilation runs from tracks that appeared on the Japanese synth legend's debut album, Thousand Knives, first released in 1978, through to songs written with the iconic session group KYLYN, featuring celebrated guitar great Kazumi Watanabe. Ever the auteur, even if you didn't know this was Sakamoto in proper landmark mode, there's no chance the sounds here could really be confused for anyone or anything else. It's mature and intelligent, yet strangely - and typically - fun, childlike and a little cartoonish, sharing as much in common with experimental electronica that was emerging during the 1970s and 1980s as video game scores from the 1990s. — via Jazz Messengers

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Label: Nipponophone
Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Limited Edition, Stereo
Reissued: 2025 / Original Release: 1992
Genre: Electronic
Style: Synth-pop, Experimental

File under: Japanese Electronic
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