{"id":1775,"date":"2013-03-27T12:44:43","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T12:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/?p=1775"},"modified":"2024-02-14T20:36:33","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T20:36:33","slug":"harumi-shimada-yako-shonen-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/harumi-shimada-yako-shonen-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Harumi Shimada- Yak\u014d Sh\u014dnen 7&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another quick and dirty post here, an excellent 7&#8221; from Japan, released in 1984 via Forecast Records. According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Harumi-Shimada-Yak%C5%8D-Sh%C5%8Dnen\/release\/2635101\">discogs entry<\/a>, this 7&#8221; was written by\u00a0Masahiro Sugawara, who was also involved in After the Sludge.\u00a0 Harumi was just one of six people who performed on this 7&#8221;, which features an excellent mid-tempo minimal synth track.\u00a0 The B-side appears to be a bizarre dub version of the track which weaves in and out of coherence and descends into chaos over the course of 5 minutes.\u00a0 Safe to assume that the B-side is the English translation of Yak\u014d Sh\u014dnen.<\/p>\n<p>I have plenty of excellent coldwave on the back burner, but it&#8217;s been a long time since we&#8217;ve had a bona fide minimal synth rarity, so have at it!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/harumi-shimada-yako-shonen-7\/harumishimada\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3100\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3100\" src=\"http:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/harumishimada-300x290.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/harumishimada-300x290.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/harumishimada.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Harumi Shimada- <em>Yak\u014d Sh\u014dnen<\/em> 7&#8221;<br \/>\n1. Yak\u014d Sh\u014dnen<br \/>\n2. Midnight Boy<\/p>\n<p>*<a href=\"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/SOR\/harumi.zip\">download it here<\/a>*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another quick and dirty post here, an excellent 7&#8221; from Japan, released in 1984 via Forecast Records. According to the discogs entry, this 7&#8221; was written by\u00a0Masahiro Sugawara, who was also involved in After the Sludge.\u00a0 Harumi was just one of six people who performed on this 7&#8221;, which features an excellent mid-tempo minimal synth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,37,768,766,615,614,767,17,167,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1980s","category-37","category-after-the-sludge","category-harumi-shimada","category-japan","category-japanese","category-masahiro-sugawara","category-minimal","category-minimal-synth","category-new-wave"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1775"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5558,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775\/revisions\/5558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}