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Cat: FLJF 9533. Rel: 24 Jul 23
Disco/Nu Disco/Re-Edits

Side 1 - Track 1. AffairSide 1 - Track 2. Last Summer WhisperSide 1 - Track 3. Lonely DrivingSide 1 - Track 4. ResolutionSide 1 - Track 5. Fly By DaySide 2 - Track 1. Flash Back MemoriesSide 2 - Track 2. Honesty ManSide 2 - Track 3. Memorial StorySide 2 - Track 4. Track 9Side 2 - Track 5. Heaven Beach

In around 2013, artists like Yung Bae pioneered the genre of future funk, which took elements from early Japanese city pop and funk from the 1980s, and turned it into hyper-compressed, dull and nostalgic explosions of sampledelic sound. But in turn, it reinvigorated interest in the particular brand of city pop that had been sampled - and those already in the know about it will know it was already danceable and driving enough. ANRI, the singer hailing from Kanagawa, was a central artist in this early J-pop sound, and unwittingly paved the way for this decades-to-come cultural routing. Funky live horns, dynamic vocal jumps and an optimistic feel cut across her 1982 opus Heaven Beach - a more laid-back and relaxed album compared to her other projects, and only her fourth. Emblematic of the Sino-nostalgia that has taken the vaporwave and future funk community by storm, it was one of her four earliest albums to be released with the timeless Japanese music trademark - the obi-strip.