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After having guested on Escalator albums "Ciclismo 2" and "Garage Land", model Caede has a first release coming out this Christmas. The CD single (or as Escalator puts it: EP) is produced by none other than Cubismo Grafico!

Caede "Maple Soap"

1. Maple Soap
2. Maple Soap (Alternate version)

Escalator ESC-072
Out 12/25, ¥1000 (excl. 10% tax)
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Various Artists "Henry"
Release delayed one week to December 7

Comoesta Yaegashi produces an unexpected soundtrack for late night TV show "Steam kakarichō" (English title "Steam Head"). The soundtrack also features Plus-Tech Squeeze Box, Hase Hajimu, Sindbad, and Mr. comixstore (a new unit with Arai Toshiya (Kofta)).

The vinyl edition is already out. Details at the bottom.

Various Artists "Steam Head Original Sound Track & More"
オムニバス 「スチーム係長 Original Sound Track & More」

1. Steam Head in the Air / Hase Hajimu
2. Roswell's Monkeys mix / Plus-Tech Squeeze Box
3. STEAM is JOKE!!! (Mr. comicstore man's mix) / Mr. comicstore
4. Steam kakarichō (Beats vs. Train Mix) / Comoesta Yaegashi
5. Steam kakarichō (Gogo Mix) / Comoesta Yaegashi
6. Pooper SteaMmmm Jump the track / Kawanishi Suguru
7. Steam Shot / GONG
8. Industry Electro Breaks / Sindbad
9. karashishi tokkyū / DJ Alive
10. Steam kakarichō (kōya no kakarichō Mix) / Comoesta Yaegashi

High Contrast HCCD-9514
Out 12/1, ¥2000 (excl. 10% tax)
Order: Amazon

"Steam Head Original Sound Track & More" (12")
「スチーム係長 Original Sound Track & More」

A1. Steam Head in the Air / Hase Hajimu
A2. STEAM is JOKE!!! (Mr. comixstore man's mix) / Mr. comixstore
A3. karashishi tokkyū / DJ Alive
A4. Steam kakarichō (Gogo Mix) / Comoesta Yaegashi

B1. Roswell's Monkeys mix / Plus-Tech Squeeze Box
B2. Industry Electro Breaks / Sindbad
B3. Steam Shot / GONG
B4. Trad trip hop mix / Suguru Kawanishi

High Contrast HCR-9624
Out 11/17, ¥1500 (excl. 10% tax)
Order: Jet Set

Kiiiiiii "Kiiiiiii Vol.1 EP" (7")
Artwork added! Colored vinyl, yum!

Various Artists "Henry"
Correct artwork added

Halcali "Tip Taps Tip"
Artwork added, title corrected

Crue-L Grand Orchestra "Psycho Piano (Prins Thomas Remix)" (12"/CD)
CD artwork added

Kiiiiiii "Kiiiiiii Vol.1 EP" (7")
Finally a definitive(?) release date has been announced! 11/27

YeLLOW Generation "Dual"
Artwork added

A 8th DVD of the Oh! Mikey series is coming soon! Episodes #92-#104 that are being aired on TV and on the Web.

"Oh! Mikey 8th" (DVD)
Region 2 NTSC, 4:3, English subtitles

Episodes list (unofficial approximate translations)
｢家族旅行｣ (Family vacation)
｢エミリーのボーイフレンド」 (Emily's boyfriend)
｢ローラ神様と出会う｣ (Laura meets God)
｢ナンデ君VSヒッキー君｣ (Nande-kun VS Hickey-kun)
｢ジャックとの再会｣ (Jack returns)
｢ニック家へようこそ｣ (Welcome to Nick's)
｢鬼警官ロックウェル｣ (Demon policeman Rockwel)
and more...

Media Factory FFBV-0009
Out 12/3, ¥3129
Order: Amazon (20% off *), bonus 30 stickers)
* Discount at time of writing

p&art sasanoooha "p&art Music"
Track list added: 24 tracks! All songs can be sampled Artimage Records!

Macdonald Duck Eclair "The Genesis Songbook"
Details of 26-track bonus CD-R added

Fender Rhodes player Ino Hidefumi is back with a 3rd 7" single. This time he covers Grover Washington Jr. & Bill Withers' "Just the two of us" and Sylvia's "Pillow talk". A must buy!

Also don't miss his contribution to the recently released "Readymade digs Classics" compilation.

Ino Hidefumi "Just the two of us / Pillow talk" (7")
猪野秀史 「ジャスト・ザ・トゥー・オブ・アス / ピロウ・トーク」

A. Just the two of us
B. Pillow talk

innocent IREP-0003
Out now (11/11), ¥1200 (excl. 10% tax)
Order: Jet Set, , Moodsville (Japan only), innocent (Japan only)

Halcali "Tip Taps Top"
Track list added

akiko "Little Miss Jazz And Jive"
Various Artists "akiko presents: Rockin' Doo Wop Jump & Jive"
There will be limited edition cardboard sleeves for these two releases, so buy early!

akiko "I Want You To Be My Baby"
Cheap single cancelled

Over a year after the previous installment, record banchō Sunaga Tatsuo is back with a new club mix CD of his popular "World Standard" series.

Various Artists "World Standard.05 -A Tatsuo Sunaga Live Mix-"

1. Roughneck / Eddie Roberts
2. Jet Set / Sunaga Tatsuo
3. Citysteps (Yannic L's Trickski Mix) / Slope
4. Charade / Sahib Shihab
5. Poseidon / Dalindeo
6. Oriental Smile / Paolo Fedreghini and Marco Bianchi
7. Life is a Tree (Truby Trio Treatment) / Sicania Soul
8. Livin' High / Jazztronik
9. Starlite (Nuspirit helsinki Mix) / Leo Tardin's Grandpianoramax
10. K.G.O / Little Big Bee
11. Endless Bow (Original Mix) / Yoshizawa Hajime
12. Take It From The Past / So Hayashi
13. Nomad (Maurice Fulton Remix) / Micatone
14. Senior Blues / Povo
15. Ur / Alison Crockett
16. O Mar E O Amor / Leny Andrade

Flower FLRC-0042
Out 12/14, ¥2580 (excl. 10% tax)
Order: Amazon, Amazon U.S.

There will be a new YeLLOW Generation single of which the title track is arranged by Konishi Yasuharu. The song is being used as opening theme for anime Ginban Grade Scope.

There will be a limited edition.

YeLLOW Generation "Dual"

1. Dual
2. Two Love, True Love
3. Dual (Less Vocal)
4. Two Love, True Love (Less Vocal)

Def Star DFCL-1197
Out 12/7, ¥1165 (excl. 10% tax)
Order: Play-Asia, Amazon, Amazon U.S.

Konishi Yasuharu, who produced the Nomoto Karia-sung opening and ending themes to anime series "Sugar Sugar Rune", has written music, arranged and produced an "image album" for the series.

While not used in the series itself, the songs were inspired by it. Lyrics to the 4 vocal songs sung by the series' voice actresses were written by manga artist Anno Moyoko herself. The album will also contain 3 other character image songs, 3 instrumental Sugar Sugar Rune image songs, the opening and ending themes sung in French by Mia Dambron, and perhaps an interview with Anno Moyoko.
The orchestration to instrumental song "Orchestra no otoko" was done by Higuchi Yasuo (aka Pico).

There will be a limited edition with cardboard sleeve inside a special box and including character cards.

Various Artists "Maison de Chocola"

1. Avant Title
2. Chocolat ni muchū (TV size) / Nomoto Karia
3. zen Commercial
4. Orchestra no otoko
5. "Chocolat ni muchū" no Swing / Mia Dambron
6. gokigen naname no onna no ko / Chocola (Matsumoto Marika)
7. sumire mitai / Vanilla (Ihata Juri)
8. makai no ōji / Rockin' Robin (Tsuda Kenjiro)
9. Date☆Date / Chocola to Vanilla (Matsumoto Marika & Ihata Juri)
10. chū Commercial
11. Stereo Check / u- to so-ru (Kimura Ryohei & Iwahashi Naoya)
12. Chocola no kuchibue / Chocola (Matsumoto Marika)
13. One Note Sonata / Pierre (Konishi Hiroki)
14. shitsunaigaku
15. La fête
16. "tsuki no mukō no sekai" no komoriuta / Mia Dambron
17. Ending Roll / Mia Dambron

Starchild KICA-715
Out 12/7 12/28, ¥2800
Order: Amazon, HMV, Tower, Amazon U.S.