Takako Ohta (太田貴子 ) - Gradation (1984) FULL ALBUM [Synthpop - Citypop] ~ Bubble Economy Idol Music ~

Artist: Takako Ohta
Album - Gradation
Release date: 1984
Label: Japan Record
Genre(s): Pop, J-Pop
Style(s): Synth-pop, Funk, Idol Music
Reference: 28JAL-22
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Tracklist
0:00 - June 泣かないで (June, don't cry.)
3:43 - Good-bye Mr.エキストラ (Good-bye Mr. Extra)
7:37 - 不思議の国へ連れてって (Take me to Wonderland.)
11:13 - 恋は Hurry Up (Hurry Up Love)
14:50 - Misty Dreamer
19:02 - Heartbreak Mistake
22:44 - 星屑のエモーション (Stardust Emotion)
26:18 - 流星症候群 (Meteor Syndrome)
30:20 - ワン・ニャン・Love 狂騒曲 (One Nyan Love Frenzy)
32:42 - 大人になれない (I can't grow up.)
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This album is a mix of synthpop & funk with a focus on peppier, upbeat tunes not dissimilar from idol songs featured in many TV shows and anime at the time. A fantastic, but obscure example of some of the incredible pop music coming out of Japan in the 1980s.

Credits on the rear of the album feature Shigeru Shizuku for Guitar & Hiroshi Satoh on keyboards, among many others such as Tomoko Aran having written many of the lyrics.

Please enjoy this vinyl recording, you may also find a version from the cassette that features talking sections in-between the songs (albeit in an extremely low quality) on the u-yaのレトロ書庫 channel here on YouTube.
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Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/release/7093283-Takako-Ohta-Gradation
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This album is uploaded with the purpose of preservation and archiving.

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