Disclaimer

  • Japan Onchi is an entirely independent, non-commercial site which exists to introduce Japanese underground, improvised and avant-garde music to a non-Japanese audience.
  • Please note that most of the music files we link to are ones that have already been made available for promotional purposes elsewhere online.
  • When we post individual tracks from our own archives, we do so in the belief that it is genuinely obscure yet worthy enough to warrant wider exposure. In such cases, files posted are always limited to one.
  • We sincerely think that readers would otherwise be unable to source the music we recommend through mainstream channels or even specialist stores outside Japan!
  • If you are the extremely talented individual responsible for any music recording on this site and you feel that your livelihood has been violated by its inclusion, don’t get worked up about it - just email us immediately! Tell us the reason behind your objection, give us enough information so we can be sure you are who you say you are, and we will remove your recording immediately without the need for further argument or legal fuss.