Experimental / Noise / Improvisation 2026
Toshimaru Nakamura (中村としまる)
No-Input Mixing Board, Early Years
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Friday, August 21, 2026 • Vinyl Finds from Around the World
行方不明
The first solo album from mitsume frontman Moto Kawabe, and his first recorded with a full band. It sketches emotions that slowly shift shape over time and the small moments that make you stop in daily life; opener "Alien no Koi" drifts with familiar melancholy, its swaying guitar and voice as beguiling as ever, keeping mitsume's light, supple touch. Now issued on vinyl.
Channel Orange
Frank Ocean's official 2012 debut studio album and a watershed for modern R&B. From the falsetto confession of "Thinkin Bout You" to the near-ten-minute epic "Pyramids" and the André 3000-featuring "Pink Matter," it drapes love, wealth and loss in hazy, languid sound. This Def Jam CD returns to stock in September.
In The Garden
Athens producer Moderator has a knack for folding surf, soul and a grab-bag of styles into his beats, conjuring cinematic scenes. This 2022 12" EP weaves in a jazz texture once more — deeply immersive and subtly seductive, a sought-after record that sold out on its first import three years ago.
Heavy Is The Crown
The first full collaborative album from nine-time Grammy winner Anderson .Paak and Grammy-nominated rapper Cordae plays like a loose hangout between friends while taking on serious questions at its core. Less a calculated commercial pairing than a record about brotherhood, family, and how each brings out the other's laughter, raps and creativity.
Frogs In A Pond
Melbourne five-piece Surprise Chef return with a new record. Steeped in '70s soul, they're known for cinematic, mood-drenched instrumental jazz-funk and an almost obsessive devotion to recording — cutting a single song thirty or forty times to find the right take. The new album draws on late-'60s to early-'70s European film-score composers; just listening lets a whole scene unfold in the mind.
One Piece: Into the Grand Line
A deluxe 2LP boxset themed around One Piece's "Grand Line," collecting original songs performed by an array of guest vocalists (Declan de Barra, The Hu, Au/Ra, Leo P and more). Red and blue marbled vinyl evoke the burning spirit of adventure and the mystery of the Grand Line; a die-cut sleeve, 16-page making-of booklet, double-sided poster and stickers round out a collectible woodgrain-boxed set.
A key figure in Japanese improvised music, Toshimaru Nakamura has since 1997 developed his signature "No-Input Mixing Board" technique — feeding no external source into the mixer and generating sound purely from its internal feedback, circuitry and noise. This P-VINE collection gathers formative recordings hand-picked by the artist himself, faint noise surfacing like tinnitus and insect song in near-silence — a personal history written in noise.