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Long out of stock, JPEGMAFIA's LP! returns on red vinyl 2LP. Peggy shreds and reassembles his samples into beats that keep collapsing on themselves — gritty low end, abrupt cuts, and his most unhinged, most recognizable record.

缺貨許久的 JPEGMAFIA《LP!》再度回歸，這次是紅色彩膠 2LP 版本。Peggy 把取樣切碎、重組成近乎崩壞的節拍，粗糲的低音與突兀的斷點交錯，是他最狂放也最具辨識度的一張。

Dream sounds out of Sweden. The Radio Dept.'s 2006 second album returns for a 20th anniversary vinyl reissue. Where Lesser Matters was lo-fi and noise pop, Pet Grief drifts into softer, finer dream pop — hazy vocals, weightless melodies, layered textures, the loveliest fog of 2000s indie pop. Twenty years on it's still sweet, lonely and blurred, with the ghost of C86 hanging over its shyness.

來自瑞典的夢幻之聲。The Radio Dept. 2006 年的第二張專輯迎來 20 週年紀念黑膠再版。相較首張《Lesser Matters》的 Lo-Fi 與 Noise Pop 質地，這張走向更柔和細膩的 Dream Pop：朦朧人聲、輕盈旋律與層層堆疊的音色，留下 2000 年代 Indie Pop 最迷人的一片霧氣。二十年過去，那份甜美、孤獨又朦朧的聲音依舊迷人，害羞可愛的氣質裡仍飄散著 C86 的幽靈。

Michael Kiwanuka's loosest, most soulful record yet, full of improvisational magic. The spark came from the late Chick Corea — during lockdown Kiwanuka stumbled on an interview where Corea urged him to embrace what he actually loves and ignore what anyone thinks. The psychedelic cartoon sleeve by friend and longtime collaborator Stevie Gee answers the album's warmth and strangeness perfectly.

Michael Kiwanuka 至今最自由的一張，鬆弛、靈魂感十足，充滿即興的魔力。靈感來自已故爵士鋼琴大師 Chick Corea——封城期間他偶然看到一段訪談，Chick 提醒他擁抱自己真正熱愛的事物，不必在意別人怎麼想。封面由好友兼視覺夥伴 Stevie Gee 以迷幻卡通風格繪製，完美呼應整張專輯的溫暖與驚奇。

After his first Japanese dates in 1986, Chet Baker promised he'd be back soon. On June 6, 1987 he kept his word, and the night at Fukui's Phoenix Plaza became legend — released here as both sets, Vol.1 and Vol.2. Vol.1 has longtime pianist Harold Danko, Dutch bassist Hein Van De Geyn and drummer John Engels behind him, light on its feet and utterly unhurried, with an irreplaceable live 'My Funny Valentine'. Vol.2 keeps the swing burning through readings like 'You are My Thrill'. Japanese RSD clear-blue vinyl, long sold out officially.

1986 年初次訪日演出後，Chet Baker 留下一句「我們很快會再見」。1987 年 6 月 6 日他如約重返日本，在福井鳳凰廣場留下這場傳奇現場，完整分為 Vol.1 與 Vol.2 兩場 Set。Vol.1 由長年合作的鋼琴手 Harold Danko、荷蘭貝斯手 Hein Van De Geyn 與鼓手 John Engels 伴奏，節奏輕快游刃有餘，收錄無可取代的現場版〈My Funny Valentine〉；Vol.2 延續狂熱搖擺的氛圍，收錄〈You are My Thrill〉等精彩詮釋。日本 RSD 限定透明藍彩膠，官方早已全數完售。

This is probably what a dreamed Texas sounds like: an endless deep-blue horizon, wet swampland, records carrying across the block from a house party on a hot summer night — and a lonely, wide-open poetry running under all of it. Houston trio Chrome Chasm pairs Mlee Marie (Hearts Of Animals) and Will Adams (Lower Dens/Ka-Nives) with Texas psych-experimental mainstay Tom Carter (Charalambides). Opener 'The Star' is gorgeous: distorted guitar rolling in like tide, pedal steel circling, saxophone intoning over and over until the three fold together and time seems to stop inside an ambient mirage.

這應該就是夢境德州的聲音：無盡的深藍地平線、潮濕的沼澤、炎熱夏夜裡從 House Party 傳遍街區的唱片聲響，同時瀰散著孤獨且遼闊的詩意。來自 Houston 的三人組 Chrome Chasm，由 Mlee Marie（Hearts Of Animals）、Will Adams（Lower Dens／Ka-Nives）與德州實驗迷幻重要人物 Tom Carter（Charalambides）組成。開場曲〈The Star〉非常美麗，失真吉他如潮水推進、Pedal Steel 幽幽盤旋、薩克斯風反覆吹吟，三者交疊彷彿時間靜止，浸漬在一片幻美的 Ambient 風景中。

Cheer Chen's 2002 album Guitarist gets a blue vinyl pressing — the first shipment sold out and a second run is now on pre-order. From 'My Dear Paranoid' through 'Too Clever' and 'Minuet' to the title track, it's the sharpest her acoustic-guitar vocabulary has ever been, and each side closes with a different version of 'Lying in Your Closet' — guitar, then piano — the same sentence said twice in two voices.

陳綺貞 2002 年的《吉他手》推出藍色彩膠版本，首批到貨全數完售、現正追加預訂。〈我親愛的偏執狂〉、〈太聰明〉、〈小步舞曲〉一路到同名曲〈吉他手〉，是她木吉他語彙最鋒利的一張，A、B 面收尾各放一次〈躺在你的衣櫃〉的吉他與鋼琴版本，像同一句話用兩種聲音再說一遍。

The first officially licensed reissue of Japanese environmental music pioneer Hiroshi Yoshimura's January 1986 album. Surround was commissioned by homebuilder Misawa Homes to improve the feel of their new living spaces, recorded alongside the beloved GREEN — producer Hiroyoshi Shiokawa's liner notes call the two Yoshimura's yin and yang. This edition carries notes by Shiokawa and Yoshimura, remastered by Grammy-nominated engineer John Baldwin, on blue vinyl.

日本環境音樂先驅吉村弘 1986 年 1 月的作品首度官方授權重發。《Surround》原是建築公司 Misawa Homes 委託之作，目的是提升新建住宅空間的質感，與另一張備受好評的《GREEN》同期錄製——製作人塩川博義在內頁中把兩者形容為吉村弘的陰與陽。本次重發內附塩川博義與吉村弘撰寫的解說，由葛萊美提名母帶工程師 John Baldwin 重製混音，藍色彩膠。

Recorded in 1987 and long underrated, Flora gets its first official reissue since the 2006 CD and its first ever vinyl pressing. It picks up where 1986's GREEN and Surround left off, continuing Yoshimura's study of how environment and sound dissolve into each other — true to the title, it plays like a walk through a park, moving among flowers and trees, alert to the color and texture of the natural world while content to sit in the background of an ordinary day. Liner notes by Waseda professor Junichi Konuma, vinyl mastering by John Baldwin, pressed as a 45rpm 2LP at Germany's Optimal Media.

錄製於 1987 年、被長期低估的吉村弘作品，自 2006 年 CD 發行以來首度官方重發，也是初次黑膠化。《Flora》承接 1986 年的《GREEN》與《Surround》，延續他對環境與聲音交融的探索——如其名，聽來宛如漫步公園、穿梭花草樹木之間，感受自然的色彩與質地，同時甘於成為日常生活的背景。早稻田大學教授小沼純一撰寫內頁，John Baldwin 負責黑膠母帶，德國 Optimal Media 壓製雙片 45 轉。