Ken Hidaka is the go-to man in Japan for a host of record labels looking to release Japanese music internationally and has worked as a respected A&R consultant, Music Supervisor and curator since the '90s in Tokyo.
Here, he flows through different music styles to bring us a super-fresh selection of new music, exclusives and hot reissues coming through from his work for BBE, Music Mine, Flower Records and many more.
1. Meditation intro
2. Unknown Me - Dancing Leaves (Not Not Fun)
3. Izumi “Mimi” Kobayashi - Palm St. (Time Capsule)
4. Central – Fuwafuwa (Flower Records)
5. Cruisic - Time Will Tell (Flower Records)
6. TAMTAM – Doors (Peoples Potential Unlimited)
7. The Ecstasy Boys - Tsukino Oshie (Full Moon Temple Mix) (Glossy Mistakes)
8. Pecqre (Pecker) - Kylyn (Sound Metaphor)
9. Hakushi Hasegawa - 禁物 Forbidden Thing (Kinmotsu) (Brainfeeder)
10. Masahiko Satoh & Takeo Moriyama Feat. Leon Brichard, ldris Rahman –
Watarase (Live At Café OTO) (BBE Music)
11. Ayane Shino - Joy (Musicmine)
12. Ken Ishii - Scene One (2024 Remastered) (Musicmine / Sublime Records)
13. Kaito - Summer Mood (iF edit) (Infine)
