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“He was right, so we kinda asked him, as a joke, if he thought we could maybe release their album on vinyl for Europe.” “Our good friend Yves Botz from Mesa Of The Lost Women told us about BiS Kaidan and how that band could be up our alley,” says Schall of the eccentric Japanese group comprised of legendary noise collective Hijokaidan and anti-idol band BiS. Specific launched in 2010 after the couple’s first-ever trip to Japan with a simple goal in mind: “To release good & interesting music, no matter what the specific genre was, and to keep records as affordable as possible.” While initial releases came from sources close to home, like local improv outfit 14:13 and Schall’s own project Twin Pricks, releasing Japanese music on Specific was their aim from the outset. Zakrzewski describes Specific as a “musical laboratory” in which artists can experiment and collaborate, but the label could also be considered a kaleidoscopic look into the lives of its founders, whose passion for curation is an art in itself. Sometimes, the label functions as a mouthpiece for the indie pop scene of Metz, where the label is headquartered, though it just as often serves as an outlet for vinyl editions of underrated J-Pop albums that might otherwise only exist as CDs. Subject to the eclectic tastes of French husband-and-wife duo Florian Schall and Jennie Zakrzewski, Specific Recordings’ discography spans continents and fuses genres, taking delight in its own ambiguity. For a label named Specific, it’s surprising how broad the scope of this vinyl-only imprint really is.