"Nihon Synthesizer Ongaku no Akebono" is a reissue series focusing on valuable works from albums that documented the trial-and-error of the early days of synthesizer music in Japan during the 1970s, many of which were never released on CD and are now difficult to obtain. The series is supervised by Hideki Matsutake, a pioneer of Japanese synthesizer programmers and an honorary member of the Japan Synthesizer Professional Arts Association. "Switched On Hit & Rock" is a little-known work released in 1972 by synthesizer master Isao Tomita as an easy-listening album of Western music covers shortly after introducing the Moog synthesizer, originally issued as a four-channel record. The know-how gained during its production later culminated in the worldwide hit "Clair de Lune" (1974), giving this work extremely high historical significance. This title receives its first-ever CD release in high-quality Blu-spec CD2 format.