Modular 33

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. 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 — 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