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

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.