Yawaraka JazzJazz DJ sets · 100% vinyl · Tokyo
Jazz played only from records, mixed by hand in a small room in Tokyo — soft enough to live with.
レコードだけで、手でつなぐジャズ。東京の小さな部屋から。
Liner notes
I've loved jazz since I was a teenager. Records came later, almost by accident. Once they were playing at home, I wanted to take that sound with me — on the train, on the way to work.
I was still learning to DJ, so I started filming the sets and putting them on YouTube: a way to check my hands, and whether the mixes were clean. It was a personal log, nothing more.
Then people started listening. The comments told me where the sets were going — morning routines, long workdays, Sunday afternoons with a book. Now I build each set for a moment like that, and the sets grow as the record shelf does.
— Jona
10 代のころからジャズを聴くのが好きで、ひょんなことからレコードを集め始めました。最初は、家の音を通勤中や移動中にも持ち出して聴けたらいいな、という思いで録り始めたのがきっかけです。
DJ はまだ初心者だったので、自分の手さばきや、きれいにつなげているかのチェックも兼ねて、動画と一緒に YouTube に上げていました。あくまで個人的なものとして。
それが意外にも見ていただけるようになり、いろんな場面で流してもらっていることをコメント欄で知りました。それからは、シチュエーションごとに聴きやすいセットを、手持ちのレコードを入れ替えながら作っています。
Side A — Day
- Morning routine
Part of my morning routine.
- Start of the workday
Always a vibe, good start to my workday
- At the desk
I play jazz at work…
Side B — Evening
- Sunday reading
the perfect vintage jazz sets for my Sunday afternoon reading
- End of the day
Every evening I listen to one of your music sets.
- Because it's real
Finally, some non AI human jazz mix…
From YouTube comments and Bluesky posts. Names left out.
- Selected & played by
- Jona — designer and dancer in Tokyo; DJs for the love of it
- Turntables
- Garrard 401 ×2, SME 3012
- Cartridges
- Ortofon SPU GTE, plus a mono
- Mixer
- Varia Instruments RDM 20
- Amplifier
- Luxkit A3000 (KT88)
- Speakers
- Tannoy SRM 12B
- Tee artwork
- Erika Kitagawa (@erika_kunn)
“Each mix is 100% vinyl … Just vibes.”RTÉ Culture, 2026
“40-60 minute DJ mixes of jazz vinyl.”kottke.org, 2025
Notes
No. Every set is played from vinyl, by hand. “No AI” in the titles means exactly that.
Full tracklist with timestamps in every video description.
The same sets are on Mixcloud. No official Spotify.
Leave them in the comments. No promises, but I read them.
DJ, selection and sound styling, in Japan and abroad: yawarakajazzvinyl@gmail.com
A staghorn fern. The watch is a vintage Enicar.
