Sunshower

"Sun Shower" was an album track on Nami Shimada's Everytime I Look at You (1988, her seventh album for Nippon Columbia), on side two and not a single; the album was produced and written by Yosuke Sugiyama, per Attack Magazine's long read. Sugiyama, hearing Terada's underground house, asked him to remix it. Terada, then a university student running Far East Recording, made six remixes that strip the track down to Shimada's vocals, released in December 1989 on Mix Wax ~Nami Nonstop. He took 400 Nippon Columbia promo 12-inches to New York that month, and Hisa Ishioka of the Choice party got the record to DJs including Victor Rosado and Larry Levan.

Levan played it, and Terada credits that for its lasting popularity. In January 1991, at his own initiative, Terada brought Levan and Mark Kamins, the producer of Madonna's "Everybody", into a re-remix session at Sound Track Studio in New York; Levan left an answering-machine message asking the key, and Terada noted his skill at analog tape editing. A promo 12-inch, The Sun Shower Remixes, followed on Nippon Columbia in 1991 with Levan's vocal mix, Kamins's dance mix and Terada's version, never an official commercial single. Unofficial versions appeared on Far East Recording and later Creme Organization, among them the H-Track Edition opening with Levan's message, and Creme's Sunshower EP carries a Legowelt remix and Terada's 1992 instrumental remix. Shimada, now Naoko Shimada, included Levan's remix on a later compilation.

The timing of Levan's involvement is reported differently: Vice places it shortly before his death in 1992, while Attack dates the session to January 1991 and has him playing the record from 1990. We found no chart history, video, covers or samples. Setlist.fm shows no play of the song, and our upload, titled "Soichi Terada and Nami Shimada - Sunshower" on a channel called recordbot, cannot be tied to a particular mix.