Out now! 光分解 / Hikari Bunkai 「8555」 The debut album by Tokyo's coolest, youngest, hottest, nicest, fucked-uppest multi-instrumentalist jazz-prog-punk trio. Listen in full and buy (in full!) here: call-and-response.bandcamp.com/album/8555

Our friends at Blossom Rot Records in Australia are tantalisingly close to their $1K fundraising goal for the Desert Divas programme supporting female First Nations musicians. CAR acts P-iPLE, Grandma's Garden and Cyber Cherry all feature on this album: blossomrotrecords.bandcamp.com/album/blosso...

Today is the day the 光分解 album was supposed to be released, but this is your reminder that we've had to push it back a couple of weeks. Very sorry and please bear with us.

Bad news! Due to a massive production snafu, the new Hikari Bunkai album release, which was scheduled for this Friday March 27th, has been put back 2 weeks to April 10th. Huge apologies, especially to those of you who have pre-ordered the CD. The problem will be fixed soon.

The Leaf Library, who recently remixed Miu Mau's "Furidashi" for us, just released their new album "After The Rain, Strange Seeds" and it's a masterpiece. It tightens and hones to perfection their expansive yet intimate, drizzle-swept yet sometimes sun-dappled, melancholy yet joyous musical vision:

One more new preview track "min haya" is now available to whet your appetite for 光分解 (Hikari Bunkai)'s album 8555, out next Friday. Skronk freely here: call-and-response.bandcamp.com/album/8555

We've updated the pre-order page for Hikaribunkai's blistering avant-punk-prog mindmelt debut album "8555". You can now listen to the track "市のベージュ " in addition to "ランチ" which was made available last week. You can check both tracks out here: call-and-response.bandcamp.com/album/8555

We also did a remix for the new Miu Mau EP on @callandresponse.bsky.social (bringing the Flying Saucer Attack lo-fi drones to the original's sweet avant-pop): call-and-response.bandcamp.com/album/motif-21

Bandcamp Friday is also a great opportunity to lay down an early preorder for our next release, 光分解 (Hikari Bunkai)'s forthcoming album of prog-skronk-jazz-punk mayhem "8555": call-and-response.bandcamp.com/album/8555

Happy Bandcamp Friday! If you've been holding off on buying Miu Mau's excellent new Motif 21 EP, now's your chance to make the biggest impact with your love! call-and-response.bandcamp.com/album/motif-21

P-iPLE, Cyber Cherry and Grandma's Garden all participated in this online compilation from Australian indie label Blossom Rot Records. It's released for International Women's Day 2026 to raise funds for a project supporting indigenous women in music. blossomrotrecords.bandcamp.com/album/blosso...

This year, our Fashion Crisis DJ nights are travelling through time, decade by decade, to figure out our alternative history of popular music. We're starting in the 60s (because none of us is confident we could do justice to the 50s) on March 6th.

Our next release! "Tokyo Avant-garde Propeller Postcard Band" 光分解/Hikari Bunkai's wild ride of a debut album "8555" is open for pre-rders now, with the song "ランチ" currently available for early listening: call-and-response.bandcamp.com/album/8555

I've been a fan of Miu Mau for years and it's a profound pleasure to be able to finally put something by them out from my little label. That I've been able to get The Leaf Library to remix them as well is just a wonderful feeling.

This is a fantastic EP - very pleased to be able to contribute a couple of remixes to it. Hope you enjoy it.

It's past midnight here in Tokyo, which means Miu Mau's new EP Motif 21 is now officially out! Two fantastic original indie/new wave/art-pop tracks plus two lovely remixes by Matt from @theleaflibrary.bsky.social Listen to it, love it, buy it here: call-and-response.bandcamp.com/album/motif-21

Very happy to hear, via @koenjimusic.bandcamp.com, that Grandma's Garden were played the other day on X-Posure Daily with John Kennedy. Check out the whole EP here: call-and-response.bandcamp.com/album/sweet-...

Get in early with our upcoming cassette EP from alternately spiky/woozy art-pop/new wave trio Miu Mau: call-and-response.bandcamp.com/album/motif-21

Another Bandcamp Friday treat for adventurous music fans is this wild journey of a covers album featuring 15 artists either on or connected to our little label. It's pop? call-and-response.bandcamp.com/album/pop

This Bandcamp Friday, why not treat yourself to some spiky, riff-heavy garage-punk from Tokyo: call-and-response.bandcamp.com/album/sweet-...

New Looprider coming in a couple of months. Get your ears ready!

I've two remixes on this new Miu Mau EP, one as @theleaflibrary.bsky.social and one as Roland Prague (long story). Enjoy!

New TLL remix on here!

NEW RELEASE OUT 2/27! Miu Mau have been friends of the label forever and guitarist Hiromi's old band 百蚊/Hyacca were one of the foundational pillars of early CAR. So it's a profound pleasure to welcome them in all their evolving art-pop glory to our label call-and-response.bandcamp.com/album/motif-21

Matt from The Leaf Library has done fantastic stuff with us recently — with Sea Level, our recent covers comp, and on the forthcoming Miu Mau cassette — but their upcoming album is fucking fantastic and will still be up there with your year’s favourites come December. Treat yourself to a good time.

Merry Christmas! Saki from Grandma's Garden has just written a seasonal song for all you lovely people to enjoy over the holidays. Joanne Saki「My Christmas Ritual (Just Don't Drink Too Much)」 call-and-response.bandcamp.com/track/my-chr...

Merry Christmas! Saki from Grandma's Garden has just written a seasonal song for all you lovely people to enjoy over the holidays. Joanne Saki「My Christmas Ritual (Just Don't Drink Too Much)」 call-and-response.bandcamp.com/track/my-chr...

I have recorded, and there is no real way to dress this up as anything other than it actually is, a U2 cover. call-and-response.bandcamp.com/album/pop (Sun Drawing, track 6) A pleasure and an honour to be an ongoing part of the @callandresponse.bsky.social family.

NEW RELEASE! To celebrate our 20th anniversary, 15 artists from/closely tied to the label recorded cover versions for this madcap album to help us celebrate our reaching the Japanese legal drinking age. (Digital-only but with cute merch bundle options) call-and-response.bandcamp.com/album/pop

Made this album with SEA LEVEL a while back. Still got some CDs (and am now sending to EU as well). sundrawingsounds.bandcamp.com/album/aftern... Acoustic/electronic drifting dream states based on recordings I made in the central library in Helsinki. @callandresponse.bsky.social

Want to spend an evening cruising a Bandcamp account full of great music, mostly from Japan, that no one else is talking about? And then spend money on buying 3-5 albums/EPs that you can play to other people and they'll go, "What's this?" Then I have a record label account you oughtta check out:

This Bandcamp Friday, why not explore our extensive catalogue of leftfield punk and indie music from Japan (and one or two other places)? Not gonna bully you into looking at certain things this time: we trust your own inherent curiosity and joy in discovery call-and-response.bandcamp.com

2人組パンクバンドGrandma's Garden 初EPはCall And Responseから発売 https://natalie.mu/music/news/644153?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social #GrandmasGarden

The first of our 20th anniversary events is coming up in a couple of weeks at Higashi-Koenji UFO Club on November 2nd. Post-punk music, indie DJs, and heaps of loud, rhythmically obtuse, discordant fun. A good friend once called it "stupid fucking childish noise" but we just call it pop.

Super fun debut EP from Grandma’s Garden on @callandresponse.bsky.social call-and-response.bandcamp.com/album/sweet-...

The Grandma's Garden debut EP is available now in full on our Bandcamp. Check it out for 20 minutes of spiky, riff-heavy, indie-punk party songs from Tokyo's hottest new duo: call-and-response.bandcamp.com/album/sweet-...

I directed and edited* this! Please watch it! *Editing was very easy because it’s an unbroken 3.5-minute shot! I’m the Orson Welles of Koenji, baby.

The Grandma's Garden EP is out next Friday, but in the meantime, @mattschley.com made this fantastic video for the song だから、さよなら. Really pleased with this one. Thanks to all who helped out with their time and good spirits (and shitty yet affordable spirits): www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSU2...

I don't know who's in Tokyo this November and December, but our label is somehow 20 years old and we'll be celebrating with a colourful crowd of artists across three different events.

After a year spent in the abstract realms, our scuzzy indie-punk face is back on with the debut EP from Tokyo duo Grandma's Garden out on 10/17 and available for pre-order now. Available to download or on cassette with a lovely little accompanying zine: call-and-response.bandcamp.com/album/sweet-...

if yr looking for thursday tomorrow this is what the future sounded like

NEW RELEASE! former_airline「Breath of the Machineries」 カセット+ダウンロード on sale now! 東京 ・下北沢Pianola Records ・新代田Like A Fool Records ・高円寺SUBstore ・高円寺Uptown Records (後少し) 大阪 Forever Records 名古屋File-Under Records オンライン call-and-response.bandcamp.com/album/breath...

It's September 12th in Tokyo now, so here you go, you lucky people: 12 tracks full of glorious post-kraut modernist sci-fi indie call-and-response.bandcamp.com/album/breath...

Then late last year we partnered with Objects Forever in London to release this collaboration between Fukuoka's Sea Level and @matthewjashton.bsky.social's Sun Drawing project, which you could take as the rural or leafy 1st part of the journey: call-and-response.bandcamp.com/album/aftern...

In a way, that album is the urban-tinted 3rd part of a triptych of releases we've been putting out. Earlier this year, we released Lo-shi's album Moro-Q: a more ambient take on the same kraut-ish tendencies, which I think of as the more suburban 2nd part: call-and-response.bandcamp.com/album/moro-q

Since our current preorder release, Former_Airline's new album Breath of the Machineries, leans on what I'd call the abstract pop side of the label, I'm gonna use this thread to highlight some higlights of that side of what we do: call-and-response.bandcamp.com/album/breath...

If Bandcamp Friday means one thing, it means a reminder for us to occasionally promote our music. We've been going for nearly 20 years from our base in Tokyo, releasing all sorts of skronky postpunk, indie and abstract pop. Most of it is either hosted or linked here: call-and-response.bandcamp.com

If Bandcamp Friday means one thing, it means a reminder for us to occasionally promote our music. We've been going for nearly 20 years from our base in Tokyo, releasing all sorts of skronky postpunk, indie and abstract pop. Most of it is either hosted or linked here: call-and-response.bandcamp.com

Fashion Crisis is our irregular Koenji music lab for musically inclined people to try stuff out or just do their thing, whether live or just spinning tunes that make them happy. This month we're delighted to welcome live guests David Thomas Broughton and Rob Noyes, plus guest DJs Sawari On and Kyo.

Have you checked out “My Electric Fantasy (10 Years After)” yet? SHOKO from shoegaze band @collapsejpn.bsky.social came in to do vocals for us on “Satellite” and “Farewell”. Thanks SHOKO for helping us! 　 📸 by Josh Lee at Studio Chaosk #looprider #myelectricfantasy10