True Colours

Colored Music - Individual Beauty [CDSOL-1806 JPN 2018 FLAC]

Originally recorded between 1982 & 1983, however never released at the time...

For a brief period in the early 1980s, Colored Music - the duo of Atsuo Fujimoto and Ichiko Hashimoto - burned brightly. They released one critically acclaimed album on Japanese avant-pop label Better Days before vanishing into obscurity. Individual Beauty draws together previously unheard of alternate versions of the duo's eponymous 1981 EP, unreleased tracks and a handful of archival solo productions. It's an eclectic and hugely enjoyable affair, with the Japanese duo flitting between experimental ambient soundscapes, the heavy no-wave proto-techno of Heartbeat , the mutant funk We Are Only Dancing, the head-in-the-clouds hypnotism of Ambient Discotheque and more raucous, post-punk disco insanity of  the decidedly crunchy De To Ri Mi.

01 De To Re Mi
02 Tamare Kurawanka
03 After The Intelligence
04 Ambient Discotheque
05 Trick Or Treat
06 We Are Only Dancin'
07 Heartbeat
08 Night Paradise
09 Kitsune
10 Love Season
11 Angel