Side A
Artist	Song
kaoru hibiki	minida ga nikuino
pizzicato five	go go dancer
swingset	school movie
takako minekawa	cat house
the syzygys	abysinnian cat
satoru wono	tango no. 5
ya-to-i	the secret song
hide and rosanna	midnight bossa nova
style to kill	track 12
ground zero	those were the days
yuka honda	some days i stay in bed for hours
nobukazu takemura	sign
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
apryl fool	the lost mother land (part 1)
tokyo kid brothers	peace da da da
the youngers	do the whip
from style to kill	track 8
misora hibari	the soba song
kazuya kosake	i love you
petty booka [the paragons]	the tide is high
the folk crusaders	?
otaku scratch crew	underdog is here
east end X yuri	nani sore
audio sports	violent evolution
after dinner	kitchen life
yukari fresh	raymond
space ponch	raymint scott
yukari ito [ronettes]	be my baby

Comment:

... and the theme continues. this time, a mix of only japanese artists for michael, ex-coworker. we worked at an anime store, where our boss limited our jpop listening experience strictly to the selections in her "official" CD wallet which she never updated.anyhow, we've both quit. he joined the army (!) and is shipping out to japan, so i offered him a sympathetic mix tape. he asked for "obscure" japanese artists (not the chart-topping Jpop we stocked in the store). not everything on here is that obscure (we've got charttoppers of yesteryear, a pizz. five song i've been digging a lot lately, stuff on fairly accessible domestic labels, etc.), but it might still test his tastes.
this is only tape #1... i've got at least 100 more minutes on the second part.

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