by Skeely » 30 Nov 2005, 12:04
Bought in Barnardos this morning, and now playing on the Skeely office turntable is Tokyo Mobile Music. It's great collection from 1982 Japan, with Byrne/Eno type cut-up disco, dub, and odd synth pop interspersed with Tokyo street sounds (Bullet trains, games arcades and stuff). Ooh, Kraftwerk's "The Model" in Japanese has just come on. What a great find! The cover has close-up pictures of a Sony Walkman, which must have been new technology at the time (does anyone else get a sense of deja-vu seeing the streets full of people wearing earphones?).
I was nearly tempted by a Trojan compilation, Tighten Up, but it's fairly scratched.