{"id":21536,"date":"2026-02-26T22:51:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T03:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/motionfm.com\/wp2014\/?p=21536"},"modified":"2026-02-26T22:51:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T03:51:05","slug":"ryusenkei-mellow-ryusenkei-time-machine-love-2003-25-great-tracks-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motionfm.com\/wp2014\/releases\/ryusenkei-mellow-ryusenkei-time-machine-love-2003-25-great-tracks-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"RYUSENKEI &#8211; Mellow Ryusenkei: Time Machine Love 2003-25 &#8211; Great Tracks Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"255\" src=\"https:\/\/www.juno.co.uk\/player-embed\/SF1106747-01-01-01.mp3\/?pl=true&#038;ed=26-02-27\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>While plenty of attention has recently been devoted to Japan&#8217;s hybrid &#8216;city pop&#8217; sound of the mid 1980s (a localised fusion of synth-pop, jazz-funk, boogie and 80s soul), Ryusenkei have been exploring the style and its legacy since emerging at the dawn of the millennium. Mellow Ryusenkei: Time Machine Love 2003-25 is the band&#8217;s first &#8216;best of&#8217; style retrospective. Featuring cuts picked by the band&#8217;s founder and leader Kunimondo Takagachi &#8211; a detail that explains the presence of cult faves and early obscurities as well as their Japanese hits &#8211; the collection largely mines the warmer, slower and more laidback end of Ryusenkei&#8217;s catalogue, blending classic city pop sounds and vocals with languid, jazz-funk-influenced grooves.<\/p>\n<p>Label: Great Tracks Japan<br \/>\nFormat: LP + insert with obi-strip<br \/>\nCat: MHJL 467<br \/>\nReleased: 23 Feb 26<br \/>\nGenre: J-Pop<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.juno.co.uk\/products\/mellow-ryusenkei-time-machine-love-2003-25-vinyl\/1106747-01\/?ref=motionfm&#038;utm_source=affiliate&#038;utm_medium=affiliate&#038;utm_campaign=affiliate_dashboard_referral\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>BUY<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tracklist <\/p>\n<p>Side A<br \/>\n1. &#8220;Route No 3 Shibuya&#8221; 5:03<br \/>\n2. &#8220;TRICOT&#8221; 4:45<br \/>\n3. &#8220;Two Silhouette&#8221; (feat Yasuyuki Horigome) 5:33<br \/>\n4. &#8220;Tokyo Coaster&#8221; (feat Miki Taoka) 4:40<\/p>\n<p>Side B<br \/>\n1. &#8220;Summer Ray&#8221; 3:52<br \/>\n2. &#8220;Almost Anything&#8221; (2025 Re edit) 5:25<br \/>\n3. &#8220;Natural Woman&#8221; (2025 Re edit) 5:31<br \/>\n4. &#8220;Distant Horizon&#8221; (feat Nao Kodama) 4:08<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While plenty of attention has recently been devoted to Japan&#8217;s hybrid &#8216;city pop&#8217; sound of the mid 1980s (a localised fusion &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":21537,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/motionfm.com\/wp2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/motionfm.com\/wp2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/motionfm.com\/wp2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motionfm.com\/wp2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motionfm.com\/wp2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/motionfm.com\/wp2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21538,"href":"https:\/\/motionfm.com\/wp2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21536\/revisions\/21538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motionfm.com\/wp2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/motionfm.com\/wp2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motionfm.com\/wp2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motionfm.com\/wp2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}