Musik / rock

Pacific breeze : Japanese city pop, AOR and boogie 1976-1986


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Pitchfork

d. 20. maj 2019

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Jullian Mapes

d. 20. maj 2019

"This compilation of extra smooth, funky, and sometimes very odd songs from the heydey of Japan's technological boom is a broad yet nuanced introduction to the genre of city pop ... In the mid-2000s, at a listening station in one of Tokyo's sprawling Tower stores, Andy Cabic, frontman of folk-rockers Vetiver and one of the curators ... first stumbled upon city pop. Nearly a decade and a half later, the moment seems primed for this style of music, which despite a lack of official releases available stateside, spread online and helped inspire the internet-obsessed genre vaporwave. As nameless, faceless, genreless "vibe" muzak proliferate online, city pop might just be a kind of ground zero. But the version of city pop heard on Pacific Breeze plays up its more experimental side, via forays into exotica and cutting-edge electronics".