I can’t honestly say to you that ‘Japanese downtempo electronic tropical jazz lounge’ was ever a genre I would find myself blissfully enjoying after years of listening to No Wave.
Seaside Lovers are that stroll on a plastic beach, sipping a fluorescent pina colada, with warped VHS star wipes and soft focus.
A collaboration between Akira Inoue, Masataka Matsutoya and Hiroshi Sato and released in 1983, this would have sunk in bargain bins covered in hologram contact paper in a city record store in Tokyo, only to properly make sense now.

MP3: Seaside Lovers – Evening Shadows

MP3: Seaside Lovers – Sun Bathing

MP3: Seaside Lovers – Coconuts Island

MP3: Seaside Lovers – Sunset Afternoon