Chee Shimizu’s Organic Music

Chee Shimizu’s Organic Music

Chee Shimizu has shaped Japan’s underground music scene for decades—as a DJ, curator, writer, producer, and record store owner. His cult book Obscure Sound, originally published in 2013, with a revised edition following in 2020, is one of the most important recent record guides to cover more experimental styles of music, ordered by categories such as “organic,” “psychedelic,” “spiritual,” “experimental,” “cosmic,” “meditative,” and “floating.” T…