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CATALOGUE NO. 7

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A short letter from the studio, January 2026

We make small analog things for the people who keep tape recorders on their desks.

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BLOOM PEDAL

A tape-saturation pedal voiced after the late-70s consumer cassette decks we grew up listening to. Three knobs, one switch, one extremely warm output that turns any clean signal into something that sounds like a memory.

Hand-wired in our Matsumoto workshop, one batch at a time, with a small cream rosette stamped on the bottom plate.

FORMAT9V pedal

CHANNELSMono · TRS

CASEPowder-coat steel

PRICE¥38,000

SHIPS14 March 2026

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CHROMA DECK

A studio cassette deck reissued from our 1981 design. Quartz-locked transport, switchable bias for ferric and chrome tape, and a single oversized VU meter that still works after twenty years on the shelf.

Each unit ships with a numbered plate, a hand-cut sleeve, and a letter explaining how to wear it in slowly.

FORMATHardware deck

EDITIONLimited · 320 units

FINISHCream & brushed steel

PRICE¥184,000

SHIPS02 May 2026

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SUPER TAPE

A box of seven C-60 cassettes, each tape labelled with a colour, a season and a side. Drawn-by-hand inserts on cream stock, sealed with a single sticker bearing the date the box was packed.

Refill packs ship four times a year. Subscribers get a small note from the studio with each delivery.

FORMAT7 × C-60 set

EDITIONOpen · refilled monthly

PACKAGINGLetterpress sleeve

PRICE¥7,200 / box

SHIPS14 June 2026

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MIX CHAIR

A listening chair upholstered in cassette-loop fabric, woven from our own studio off-cuts in our Matsumoto workshop. Sells out before we finish photographing it; we keep making it anyway, slowly, one at a time.

Each chair is signed on the underside by the maker and dated to the day it left the workshop.

FORMATFurniture · 1 piece

FRAMESolid ash

UPHOLSTERYRecycled tape weave

PRICE¥420,000

SHIPS22 August 2026

03 / 08

A note pinned above the workbench

Build the thing first, then write the spec sheet.

— Ren Kobayashi · founder · 2024

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Units shipped, 2026

Our biggest year yet, driven mostly by the Bloom Pedal selling through three production runs.

61%

Repeat customers

Three of every five orders this year went to a household we'd already shipped to before.

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2026

05 / 08

A reader writes

"It feels less like a gadget and more like a small machine that has decided to be friendly with my desk."

Mei Tanaka

Reader letter · Bloom Pedal owner · April 2025

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Date

Title

Edition

Track

N.R.

14.03

SC-01 Bloom Pedal · first run

Open edition · 600 units

PEDAL

02.05

SC-02 Chroma Deck · numbered run

Limited · 320 units

DECK

14.06

SC-03 Super Tape boxset

Open · refilled monthly

TAPE

12.07

SC-03b Summer side · 4 cassettes

Refill kit

TAPE

22.08

SC-04 Mix Chair · workshop run

Single piece

CHAIR

03.10

Open studio & listening night

Matsumoto workshop

EVENT

14.11

Catalogue No. 8 · early preview

Subscribers only

PREVIEW

07 / 08

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Colophon · Catalogue No. 7

See you in volume eight.

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