Monday, October 13, 2008

Muji BGM 1980 - 2000




MUJI BGM 1980-2000 (disc a)
01. Original BGM.mp3
02. TALKING -BGM ver.-.mp3
03. 冬の夜.mp3
04. 星の子供たち.mp3
05. 星群の船.mp3
06. 星のささやき.mp3
07. 天の川.mp3
08. 星たしのラグタイム.mp3
09. 星たちの眠る頃.mp3
10. 流れ星.mp3

MUJI BGM 1980-2000 (disc b)
01. モダンパストラル - 夏の手掛かり~小卓の夢.mp3
02. モダンパストラル - オリーブ風.mp3
03. Dr.Kプロジェクト - Leona.mp3
04. Dr.Kプロジェクト - To,To,To,Walking.mp3
05. Dr.Kプロジェクト - Cape Light.mp3
06. Dr.Kプロジェクト - Pelican in the park.mp3
07. 配島邦明 - bicolore livre.mp3
08. 配島邦明 - color tote.mp3
09. 配島邦明 - tiny pet.mp3
10. 配島邦明 - banal look.mp3
11. 配島邦明 - mignard,e divan.mp3
12. 配島邦明 - pave ring.mp3

MUJI BGM 1980-2000 (disc c)
01. [春夏編]Akogare.mp3
02. [春夏編]Samba.mp3
03. [春夏編]鏡の上の波.mp3
04. [春夏編]Deja-vu.mp3
05. [春夏編]In the Forest.mp3
06. [秋冬編]Bug's Dance.mp3
07. [秋冬編]Funny Strut.mp3
08. [秋冬編]Julian.mp3
09. [秋冬編]Rio.mp3
10. [秋冬編]Crow's Eye.mp3


Muji started out as a small stationery store in Japan and gradually evolved to become this huge company that sells all sorts of things, from furniture to clothing to candy to bikes. Everything in Muji is unbranded, natural-looking and pleasantly minimal. What strange, wonderful things will they make today? A notebook with pretty lines that help keep you organized? A wall-mounted CD player that starts up with the pull of a string? All their items are crafty, kitschy, very Japanese and very lovely indeed.

Even just walking into a Muji store transports you into a new land. That the store itself is color co-ordinated is not a surprise but everything in the store is, not just color co-ordinated, but simply co-ordinated, feeling like irreplacable pieces in a puzzle, which, when put together, becomes a picture of a beautiful natural landscape with breezy fields and smiling people.

One of the biggest defining factors of the Muji experience, for me, is actually the wonderful music they play. They don't use standard elevator muzak but commission musicians to create actual background music to enhance the environment. The music is very, very Muji. Clean, modern and natural, unintrusive, somehow painting everything in cream, maroon and cardboard tones... It gives you the strangest kind of store-bought serenity.

So, when I saw that they were actually selling their background music, I went out of my mind with joy. Now, you too can take Muji with you wherever you go! Put in on in your house and watch it get more spacious! Listen to it while you lie on the grass and watch the sunlight diffuse! Listen to it when you're taking the train and watch your destination change to Tokyo!

This is really some of the most perfect ambient music ever made. If Brian Eno gave us an immense, gorgeous imaginary airport with Ambient 1: Music For Airports, then Muji turns the whole world into an extension of a Muji store. Which is, honest-to-God, not as bad as it sounds. Not bad at all! Just because we hate consumer culture doesn't mean we have to hate people who make wonderful things and sell them right?? Hell, William Gibson swore by their toothpaste!

Anyway here's the Muji BGM 1980 - 2000 box set. It took me a long time to upload. Enjoy.


Muji BGM 1980 - 2000 part 1
Muji BGM 1980 - 2000 part 2
Muji BGM 1980 - 2000 part 3
Muji BGM 1980 - 2000 part 4

16 comments:

Unknown said...

IM LOVIN IT!!! BUT THE LINK WAS DEAD!!!

I WANNA IT VERY MUCH, CAN U SEND IT TO ME?? PLEASEEEE!!

sy.zhou33@gmail.com

villa said...

chrh.1989@163.com

dengko said...

能不能共享给我?
或者共享到msn的skydrive也可以,我的帐号是dengko.o@msn.com

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Unknown said...

Oh man! Thanks alot for posting this! It's the kind of obscure thing one could only hope to find in a place like this. The links worked fine for me, but I suppose you must have re-upped them. The text encoding came out as symbols in itunes, but I can fix that with a little copy/paste.

So I found something that I propose as a mission for you: http://www.douban.com/group/topic/5437795/

This guy has all (apparently) of the CDs, but they are on Rayfile, for which one must be a Windows user to download from. But it would be supremely excellent if you were able to obtain and post these gems.

The ultimate contribution to the Muji Music fan world!

Ganbate Onegaishimasu!

Unknown said...

Actually... I'm having some trouble with the ID3 tags. Would you be able to tell me what encoding you use?

Unknown said...

it would be amazing if this still worked. You upload these again and Ill upload MUJI BGM 12 & 13.

kikutataw@gmail.com

Robin said...

Please please please!! I am so much in love wih this MUJI BGM selection of world music, and where I live I can´t seem to find it anywhere! So could you please contact me on mandelum at gmail so we could arrange something, I could give you some nice stuff in return...

The Merry Traveller said...

Would you consider reloading them please? Thank you very much!

Unknown said...

yeah same here.. please reupload! :D

Anonymous said...

please please please pleeeeeaaaasseeeee reupload these!!!

Anonymous said...

there, i did it myself.
many more muji compilations in there too. enjoy.

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=6953d2af20f8422175a4fc82078ae6c89668f46f3b566d56759e682a8cd2154a

Anonymous said...

Thanks Mask!! More from the series, plaese!

Anonymous said...

hey, no prob. glad someone could use them - that other site rayfile is fucking insane. had to use bootcamp on my mac and install all sorts of spyware crap for 10 kb/s download speed. it often dropped out.
(btw Mask = me)

i posted them on my blog, they're organized a little better on there.

http://fyours.wordpress.com/2009/12/13/muji/

Anonymous said...

btw all we're missing is BGM 15.. anyone have that? upload it!

Yijin Xu said...

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