Kankyo ongaku : Japanese ambient, environmental & new age music 1980-1990

"Best New Reissue" - "Early ambient music was very much an analog idea, with sounds that were blurred and vaporous, but on Kankyō Ongaku, the sounds are crisp and clean, the edges clear. Perhaps contrary to intuition, the highly "designed" nature of this music also makes it feel very human, and also increases its versatility as far as background listening for other tasks. This ambient music is not psychedelic. It never evokes outer space or the cosmos or, for that matter, the natural world, even when it uses the sound of water. It's music for the indoors, music for doing things, there for you if you want to listen closely but also content to exist on a subliminal plane".

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"Both as a listening and reading experience, the entire collection is fascinating and eye-opening, and far more than just pleasant, unassuming musical wallpaper. It's also somewhat overwhelming in a sense, simply because there's far more music from this era to discover, and this release barely scratches the surface".

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"Superlative overview of Japan's ambient scene ... As per the norm with LITA releases, it's adorned with brilliant sleevenotes putting the pieces in their proper cultural context".