New wave japanese pop from the 80’s was a special kind of batshit, but most of it’s best came from the female side. Voices that knew no range boundaries, lyrics that made no sense and some of the best saccharine fueled melodies that ever graced the airwaves. Some of them went global, some found their success writing for others and a big number of them just dissolved in crate digging purgatory. In this edition, Kadgi takes us through some of his favorites and Teixen feeds our starving goth with the likes of Fragrance, IAMX, Opale and Jonathan Bree.
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MODULAR #33
1. Kyoto – Venetian Blinds
2. Die Wilde Jagd – Austerlitz
3. Yasuaki Shimizu – Suiren
4. Jun Togawa – Suki-Suki-Daisuki
5. Akiko Yano – Ashkenazy Who?
6. Tamao Koike – Kagami no Naka no Jugatsu
7. Tamao Koike – Tamago
8. Miharu Koshi – Scandal Night (Original Karaoke Version)
9. Miharu Koshi – Capricious Salad
10. Chiemi Manabe – Targeted Girl
11. Anna Domino – In the Land of My Dreams
12. Mioko Yamaguchi – Kagami
13. Group Rhoda – Trespass
14. LA Vampires Featuring Matrix Metals – So Unreal
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15. Jonathan Bree – Say You Love Me Too feat Clara Vinals
16. Jonathan Bree – You’re So Cool
17. Sufjan Stevens – Tonya Harding
18. 2814 – Guided by Love
19. Opale – Hold You Tight
20. Opale – Les Champs Magnetiques (luminous)
21. Fragrance – Postcards
22. Fragrance – Lust for Lights
23. Caribou – Silver
24. Iamx – Little Deaths
25. Iamx – Trust the Machine
26. Byetone – Plastic Star
27. Byetone – Topas
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