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CATALOGUE NO. 7
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01 / 08
A short letter from the studio, January 2026

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

02 / 08
The 2026 Catalogue
Four products · spring & summer release
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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.
FORMAT 9V pedal
CHANNELS Mono · TRS
CASE Powder-coat steel
PRICE¥38,000
SHIPS 14 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.
FORMAT Hardware deck
EDITION Limited · 320 units
FINISH Cream & brushed steel
PRICE¥184,000
SHIPS 02 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.
FORMAT 7 × C-60 set
EDITION Open · refilled monthly
PACKAGING Letterpress sleeve
PRICE¥7,200 / box
SHIPS 14 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.
FORMAT Furniture · 1 piece
FRAME Solid ash
UPHOLSTERY Recycled tape weave
PRICE¥420,000
SHIPS 22 August 2026
03 / 08
A note pinned above the workbench

## Build the thing first, then write the spec sheet.

— Ren Kobayashi · founder · 2024
04 / 08
Output, by year
Units shipped · 2019—2026 · Q3 estimate
26K
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.
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
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
06 / 08
Release schedule
Spring & summer · 2026
Date
Title
Edition
Track
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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.

08 / 08