Record Spotlight: Aragon – ザ・スタジオ完パケ・カラオケ・フルコーラス (1985, Japan) 🇯🇵
File this one under deep cut gold. Released in 1985, this rare Japanese record by Aragon—titled ザ・スタジオ完パケ・カラオケ・フルコーラス—translates roughly to "The Studio Complete Karaoke Full Chorus"… but don’t let the "karaoke" label fool you. This is no ordinary singalong LP.
Aragon could have been pioneers of the avant-pop/synth-experimental scene in Japan during the early '80s. This album captures the instrumental/karaoke versions of their studio tracks, but in doing so, it highlights the surreal beauty of their arrangements—plastic funk basslines, warped city pop harmonies, cosmic pads, and clinical Linn drum grooves, all stripped of vocals. What remains is a ghostly, futuristic lounge music for some neon-lit world that never quite existed.
Issued during Japan's high-tech boom and music industry peak, this release is a time capsule of the technopop era, where pop sensibility met with cutting-edge studio production. It’s both eerie and beautiful—like finding the bones of a forgotten utopia in perfect condition.
If you bend ear toward Yellow Magic Orchestra, Mariah, or Tatsuro Yamashita, this one's could be of interest to you—I like the name of Aragon. I wonder why they chose it?
City pop, experimental synth, vaporwave source material, or collectors of only-in-Japan curiosities. Dig it up, drop the needle, and disappear into the haze.
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