Minoru "Hoodoo" Fushimi

Thanatos Of Funk

by Minoru "Hoodoo" Fushimi

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● Killer and cult shamisen electro funk from 1985 Japan!

● Minoru "Hoodoo" Fushimi's impossible to find first album finally reissued for the first time ever.

● Sound restoration, mastering and lacquer cut by Timmion Cutting Lab.

● 180g heavy vinyl pressing, reverse board print.

● Comes with a 4 pages insert including the original hand-written insert/comic by Minoru Fushimi, with English translations.

Minoru “Hoodoo” Fushimi’s most wanted and impossible to find first album Thanatos Of Funk is finally reissued for the first time ever, in collaboration with Fushimi himself.

Thanatos Of Funk is a milestone in Japan's underground music and electro funk/early hip hop history. Entirely self-produced, designed and distributed in 1985 by Fushimi, a high-school teacher by day and music experimenter by night, Thanatos Of Funk is a love-letter to counter-culture, DIY, drum machines and synthesizers blent with some killer shamisen and guitar playing. This is truly unique music.

The LP, re-mastered and cut at the Timmion Cutting Lab, comes with the original hand-written comic by Fushimi, with English translations. Essential!

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Thanatos Of Funk was originally self-released on 1st of July, 1985 (MFX Records, MFX-01).

Sound restoration, mastering and lacquer cut by Jukka Sarapää at Timmion Cutting Lab, Helsinki, Finland. B3 additional sound restoration by Lick-G at Zenknow Studio.

Original artwork and insert by Minoru Fushimi.
Artwork restoration and additional design by Nicolas Kerembellec (Nker.fr).
Insert translation by Minoru Fushimi.
Proofreading by Brian Durr, Diskotopia.

LP reissue production by Greg Gouty, 180g.

180GRELP02 - Manufactured and distributed by 180g, under license from Minoru Fushimi.

Distribution: Kudos Records / Light In The Attic Records / Disk Union (Japan) / 180g

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released May 6, 2022

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Minoru "Hoodoo" Fushimi Japan

Kanagawa, Japan, in the 80s. Minoru Fushimi teaches his high-school classes during the day. Back from work, he transforms into "Hoodoo" Fushimi, turns on the drum machines, the synthesizers and the sequencers, blends them with his own shamisen playing and builds what will become foundations of electro-funk and early hip hop music in the country. ... more