MASAYUKI TAKAYANAGI / NEW DIRECTION UNIT - Eclipse LP industrial The title track verges on

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and the other on the dance floors of Mod Nights and Garage Rock rave-ups

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but because I’ve long ago stopped making excuses for how their prior recordings failed to capture the full range of their muscularity

and with the exception of the live version (with audience) of Our Power

MASAYUKI TAKAYANAGI / NEW DIRECTION UNIT - Eclipse LP industrial The title track verges onDeluxe edition of this masterwork, revealingly remastered from the original tapes by Elysian Masters. Packaged in a heavy double tip on gatefold jacket with matte black paper, second tipped on metallic gold wrap and insert. Masayuki Takayanagi was one of the truly iconoclastic musicians to emerge from Japan, or anywhere else, in the 20th Century. Though he won acclaim in the 1950s and '60s as a master of the electric guitar and jazz improvisation,