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“Vanity Tapes: Box Set” / Cassette edition
Edited by AGI Yuzuru

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VAT 1__SALARIED MAN CLUB: GRAY CROSS

VAT 2__KIILO RADICAL: DENKI NOISE DANCE

VAT 3__DEN SEI KWAN: POCKET PLANETARIA

VAT 4__INVIVO: B.B.B.

VAT 5__WIRELESS SIGHT: ENDLESS DARK DREAM

VAT 6__NISHIMURA ALIMOTI: SHIBOU

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–Features of this product

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A reissue of the cassette box of Japan’s early 80’s experimental underground music

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The original label is “Vanity Records”

“Vanity Records” is one of Japan’s earliest independent labels

The director was AGI Yuzuru,

a legendary music critic and editor and publisher of “Rock Magazine” who died in 2018

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The originator of this reissue project is AGI himself

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Kentaro Hayashi, an artist highly acclaimed by AGI in his later years,

remastered only for this edition

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The original design by AGI is reproduced as much as possible

by Shin Akiyama the designer of “0g” the last editorial work of AGI

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The box is not exactly the same as the original,

but a poster of the development of the original box is attached.

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The outer box was designed with the design concept of “0g”

A flexible structure that traces the fragility of the original thin paper box

and is temporarily fixed by riveting with a soft paper covered with clothes.

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Limited edition of 100 / numbered

-[Original material]

VAT 1-6 (box set) / Vanity Records / 1981

-[Reissue edition]

Direction: AGI Yuzuru

Remastering: HAYASHI Kentaro

Facilitator: OKAMURA Hideaki

Design: AKIYAMA Shin + KUROSAKI Atsushi / edition.nord

Design cooperation: MIYAHARA Keiko, KOZUMA Morito, SADA Yudai / edition.nord

Thanks to: HIRANO Junya, HIGASHISETO Satoru, NAKAMURA Yasuyuki

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Cassette: 6 volumes

Box:107*117*77 mm / chip cardboard coverd with cloth / riveted

Poster: 410*297 mm / black and white print

Card: 49*100 mm / black and white print

Box Production by Kosoku Printing Inc.

Printed and assembled by chiku chiku lab. incl. SUWA Chihiro, ABE Yasuhiro

Published by Edition Nord: http://www.editionnord.com

0g_archive 001 / limited edition of 100

15,000 yen Sold out

Each track © 1981 the artist

This compilation ©2020 Edition Nord

All rights reserved.

Made in Japan

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  • Cassette: 6 volumes
    Box:107*117*77 mm / chip cardboard coverd with cloth / riveted
    Poster: 410*297 mm / black and white print
    Card: 49*100 mm / black and white print
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    Limited edition of 100 / numbered
    ¥15,000+tax
  • SOLD OUT