Yokota Shinichiro (横田 信一郎) and Terada Soichi have been offering a Japanese take on house music since Terada established his Far East Recording label in 1988, where he began developing a strand of Japanese house that up until recently was only championed within select circles. The sounds of the label – an outlet for Terada's and Yokota’s own productions, largely – have a glossy sheen; light-hearted and fun but distinctly soulful, expertly produced and absolutely incendiary on the right kind of dancefloor. There’s a nuanced swing to the productions, as heard to full effect on Terada’s burning "Saturday Love Sunday," for example.

Far East Recording evolved into a beacon of essential Japanese house music in the 90s, but it wasn’t until Rush Hour DJ and producer Hunee got in touch a few years ago with the idea of putting out a compilation that the world at large was finally exposed to the Far East catalog. The response to 2015’s Sounds from the Far East was a worldwide awakening to the label’s aesthetic, bringing Terada and Yokota droves of new converts from various corners of electronic music. Suddenly they were both being asked to perform the music they’d made some two decades ago. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.