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

My Electric Fantasy (10 Years After) Retrospective Podcast Ryotaro sat down with @ianfmartin.bsky.social label head of Call And Response Records, to reflect on the original EP and discuss what went into the new re-recordings. youtu.be/KxoSo7b14UU #looprider #myelectricfantasy10

New album coming in a few weeks from Former Airline, and by way of piquing your excitement, we've made a few tracks available to listen in advance. Broadcast fans check out his cover of Roses Red from last year's Spell Blanket demos collection: call-and-response.bandcamp.com/album/breath...

We swear our monthly newsletter will never be more than like 2000 or so words, including the gig listings. That's the Call And Response promise. If you want concise yet entertaining insights into life in a Tokyo indie label straight to your spam folder: www.callandresponserecords.com/newsletter/

If you're interested in the Japanese independent music scene or even just indie music in general this release will reward you in spades. So much good stuff on here.

For those of you who listened to our 2024 compilation Music For Tourists digitally but didn't get the CD, CAR owner Ian (me) just posted the essay that came included in the liner notes, together with some additional reflections on the release, here: totalexposure.jimdofree.com/2025/08/20/m...

Happy 10th birthday to Looprider! To celebrate, they've re-recorded 3 tracks from their 2015 debut My Electric Fantasy, and it makes for a remarkable before/after vision of their sound's evolution over the years, and a humbling moment to reflect for those of us who've been on this journey with them.

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.

We've a fantastic new album coming out next month and a wonderful new EP the month after. There's two main kinds of music we release: one is a sort of slippery, abstract take on what we'd still call pop but always at some level of remove; the other is scrappy art-punk. Both these types are covered.

Since it's Bandcamp Friday, now's a fantastic time to remember that we exist! Some call us Tokyo's finest indie label and if you like mysterious and beautiful music of no clear genre, scrappy postpunk, eccentric art-pop, we've all sorts of fringes covered just for you: call-and-response.bandcamp.com

なかなかユニークというか不思議な試みの作品。今の時代ならではとも云えるかも。 ロンドンのドローン・ポップのバンドThe Leaf Libraryのメンバーによる別プロジェクトSun Drawingと、福岡を拠点に活動する日本のバンドSea Levelによるコラボ・アルバム。 まずSun Drawingがフィンランドの図書館でアルバムのトラックを録り、その音源にSea Levelが重ね録りした作品であるとのこと。 どの音がどちらかは詳しいところまでは解らないが、アンビエントな響きが染み入ってくる。 music.apple.com/jp/album/aft...

In advance of the art world imploding under the pressure of payment processor censorship, we’re thinking of going back to how indie labels did things when I was a lad: send us an sae with £5 in cash, and we’ll maybe send you the cassette you want when we have time.

NEW SINGLE! worst taste「Bastard City」 Now available from us directly on Bandcamp: call-and-response.bandcamp.com/track/bastar...

QUICK NOTE FOR NEWSLETTER SUBSCRIBERS! The CAR newsletter just went out, but for some reason my email threw it in the spam box again for the first time in a long while. A bunch of other people seem to have got it no problem, but give it a check, just in case.

Our next party is nonstop fizzy, off-kilter punk trash: - Grandma's Garden are on fire now. - P-iPLE are in the thrashing throes of rebirth and this is an early chance to catch their refreshed lineup. - DopeDobutu are a weaponised form of those mistakes that turn out to be exactly what you needed.

New zine out soon!

miu mauの8年ぶり新曲が配信開始、Kuri Studio制作のアニメMVも公開（動画あり） https://natalie.mu/music/news/623708 #miumau

I cannot emphasise enough how great Miu Mau are.

Excited to be working with this Tokyo based artist! Read about Cyber Cherry and give her a listen. We have her cd now for Uk and EU orders. www.koenjimusic.co.uk/cyber-cherry

NEW MUSIC! We've loved the wonderful art-pop trio Miu Mau for years but this is our first chance to work together. Streaming only for now, but we'll have a cassette EP later in the year. It's on all the usual platforms, including evil ones, plus a lovely video on yt: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gr6K...

Deleted our Soundcloud the second I saw that AI scraping notice. How fucking dare they.

Check out my record label. It's different and interesting and I would love it to be more popular.

Super label! Features an album by Matt's Sun Drawing project (with the excellent SEA LEVEL).

If you don't know us, a big Bandcamp Friday hello. We're a Tokyo-based indie label with an extensive release catalogue covering gorgeous post-rock soundscapes, deranged no wave noise-punk, quirky DIY alt-pop, and "other". We almost certainly have something you like: call-and-response.bandcamp.com

April gig schedule! (Details in alt text)

Some recent comments from readers of our monthly newsletter of label-related gig listings and behind-the-scenes tales of Tokyo music scene life: ・"Best email in my inbox" ・"Got me worried for you a bit" Sign up and join literally tens more eager readers: www.callandresponserecords.com/newsletter/

For anyone in Tokyo looking for music this weekend, our artists have organised 3 days worth of events (full details in alt text): 3/21 a night of demented punk noise from Worst Taste 3/22 an evening of anthemic lo-fi pop from Cyber Cherry 3/23 an afternoon of ambient noise and live art fromLooprider

Just saw that Lo-shi's Moro-Q has been picked up on this Japan-related Bandcamp Friday roundup (alongside famous people like Aoba Ichiko and Downy). Get on it, kids! www.scrmbl.com/post/bandcam...

My label's first release of the year came out recently in the form of this brightly packaged cassette reissue of Tokyo-based French duo Lo-shi's lost final album. If electronic beats with abstract post-punk and ambient-kraut soundscapes sounds like something you might like, then you might like this.

"The soundtrack to walking home drunk through the city and its suburbs, late at night." Lo-shi's terrific final album Moro-Q was originally a limited 2017 run of 20 CD-Rs but CAR is proud to finally put out this new cassette release. Check it/get it here: call-and-response.bandcamp.com/album/moro-q

新しいリリース！ "深夜に都会や郊外を酔いながら歩いて帰る際のサウンドトラック " Lo-shiのアルバム『Moro-Q』は当初、2017年に20枚のCD-Rという非常に限定された枚数でファンのみにリリースされたが、Call And Responseはついにこのカセットの再発盤を堂々リリース。これにてバンドとレーベルのコラボレーション三部作が完成することになる。 call-and-response.bandcamp.com/album/moro-q

Finally, more than 7 years after its initial limited CD-R release, Lo-shi’s final album Moro-Q is finally ready for its upcoming cassette reissue – “Like the soundtrack to walking home drunk through Tokyo and its suburbs, late at night.”

次のイバントはラインアップが決まった！ Here's our next event again, now with DJs! Date: 2/16(日) Place: Koenji Green Apple Time: 18:30 Price: ¥1900+1drink Live: - David Thomas Broughton (extended set) - P-iPLE - Sawari On DJs: - A Taut Line (Greeen Linez/Diskotopia) - Amigo 3 - Ian Martin (Call And Response)