no it hasn't! hello
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Thursday, 18 June 2015 03:34 (eight years ago) link
oh yeah, that album is a great one.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 18 June 2015 03:37 (eight years ago) link
Was posted upthread, but the link is now dead, so repost:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIrmfoX3lVw
― Michael F Gill, Friday, 19 June 2015 05:49 (eight years ago) link
Wink has been mentioned but I wanted to share this song, cause it drove me wild in '11.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIVGQ-B9G38
― mom, Friday, 19 June 2015 19:11 (eight years ago) link
i especially love the delay on her voice during the verse starting at 1:52. Great production.
― mom, Friday, 19 June 2015 19:22 (eight years ago) link
it's shocking how many of these japanese pop records of the 1980s have some input (songwriter producing or just guest playing) from hosono. hardest working man in showbiz, i guess.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 19 June 2015 20:02 (eight years ago) link
Thank you guys so much for this thread, incredible! I only knew LA Nights and was always curious if there was more music like it.
― JacobSanders, Saturday, 20 June 2015 03:12 (eight years ago) link
OTM this stuff is grate
― the late great, Saturday, 20 June 2015 03:55 (eight years ago) link
more minako
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmAA_8TzGqI
monster boogie jam from 1980, it's way better than "town" imo.
― cock chirea, Saturday, 20 June 2015 04:14 (eight years ago) link
I go back to the first mari iijima album a lot. esp love the outro on this one:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGPSQKYxYmc
― original bgm, Saturday, 20 June 2015 19:17 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4yCIu0oobI
probably my favorite japanese song of the 80s. though that's tough because i think 80s japanese music (both pop and not) is the best period of music ever
― misterjoshua, Monday, 22 June 2015 22:29 (eight years ago) link
was a little embarrassed to be jamming out to this recently
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DULR826A54
not boogie by a stretch, this is pure city pop (do we have a thread on that?)
― wizzz! (amateurist), Saturday, 27 June 2015 02:41 (eight years ago) link
i'm not entirely sure what the difference between "japan boogie" and "city pop" is. folks like the ymo peeps and tatsuro yamashita are pivotal figures in city pop, but i see a lot of their stuff called "boogie". my gut feeling on this, given that knowledge of city pop as a genre didn't seem to permeate to the english-speaking internet until around 2013 or later, is that they refer to roughly the same thing. is there a such thing as '80s japan boogie that wouldn't qualify as city pop?
― rushomancy, Saturday, 27 June 2015 13:04 (eight years ago) link
i feel like boogie has to have more dance/funk influences while a lot of city pop is pure MOR. but obviously there's plenty of overlap.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Saturday, 27 June 2015 15:05 (eight years ago) link
what's up, favorite thread i ever started. a fellow ilxor posted this on my facebook page the other day and it fuckin rules:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-akuHHopkKM
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Tuesday, 19 January 2016 07:38 (eight years ago) link
i suppose everybody here already knows this song but just in case
this is the catchiest thing i've heard in... a decade?
it's been on repeat in my house for months
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUQjdwRno5g
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 18 February 2016 19:11 (eight years ago) link
I've probably gone too far with this, but I've been enjoying the smoother side of city pop, like Horii Katsumi Project and Kingo Hamada.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvXOHIlY1KA
― JacobSanders, Thursday, 18 February 2016 19:46 (eight years ago) link
there's definitely a point when i listen to some of this when i'm like, "wait a minute, am i listening to dave koz?" and question the very foundations of my taste.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 18 February 2016 19:51 (eight years ago) link
Really enjoying this thread. Friend sent me Soichi Terada - Sumo Jungle which is wicked
― Carlotta's Portrait (Ross), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 04:06 (seven years ago) link
this whole album is really great, but damn, this ひと夏のタペストリー in particular...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8K0zJ5x_GE&t=1423s#
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Friday, 10 March 2017 05:41 (seven years ago) link
argh, scratch that "this" :-/
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Friday, 10 March 2017 05:51 (seven years ago) link
hmmm:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8K0zJ5x_GE&t=1423s
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Friday, 10 March 2017 06:00 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8K0zJ5x_GE
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Friday, 10 March 2017 06:02 (seven years ago) link
ok, guess timestamps are tricky
tomoko aran "ひと夏のタペストリー"
good shit
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Friday, 10 March 2017 06:04 (seven years ago) link
Toshinobu Kubota - Groovin'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQZYdaBD6mo
― example (crüt), Tuesday, 28 March 2017 06:00 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKmPfdYy5y8
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 28 March 2017 08:40 (seven years ago) link
wow @ this book (from the same publisher that did Obscure Sound.) another tantalizing catalogue of awesome looking records
https://www.dustygroove.com/item/752875
Japanese Groove Disc Guide A to Z (paperback)This time around, the folks at Rittor – who've given us other great record books over the years – turn their talents to the world of Japanese groove, particularly from the 70s and early 80s – a time when so many Japanese artists were picking up on the best styles in American soul, and using the music to come up with some great grooves of their own!
This time around, the folks at Rittor – who've given us other great record books over the years – turn their talents to the world of Japanese groove, particularly from the 70s and early 80s – a time when so many Japanese artists were picking up on the best styles in American soul, and using the music to come up with some great grooves of their own!
― brimstead, Wednesday, 6 September 2017 02:55 (six years ago) link
SEXY ROBOT
― calstars, Wednesday, 6 September 2017 16:42 (six years ago) link
I've been enjoying this compilation a lot lately:
https://www.discogs.com/Various-Lovin-Mighty-Fire-Nippon-Funk-Soul-Disco-1973-1983/release/9886561
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 24 September 2017 19:47 (six years ago) link
'rainbow paradise' by masayoshi takanaka on that is a keeper
― flopson, Monday, 25 September 2017 02:14 (six years ago) link
I'm still working through the entire thing (thanks for the rec) but the Hosono track seems like the best composition so far.
― calstars, Monday, 25 September 2017 02:23 (six years ago) link
ya that one's great too. could listen to the jam in the last minute and a half of it for a long time
― flopson, Monday, 25 September 2017 02:31 (six years ago) link
Live streaming city pop tunes on YouTube w/ driving footage - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IiPLJfANrM
― MaresNest, Monday, 25 September 2017 20:49 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojqKOE9Ezf0
― DPRK Nowitzki (lpz), Wednesday, 27 September 2017 17:44 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbpS_elm8Q4
― flopson, Friday, 23 March 2018 00:49 (six years ago) link
oh yeah that's the stuff
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 23 March 2018 00:53 (six years ago) link
lit
― big C (calstars), Friday, 23 March 2018 02:53 (six years ago) link
I posted this in the future funk thread but have you guys figured out why this has 8 million plus views https://youtu.be/3bNITQR4Uso
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Friday, 23 March 2018 16:46 (six years ago) link
combo of youtube suggestions algorithm + autoplay afaict? comments section is full of the phrase "randomly stumbled upon this." very dissimilar form the comments section on my "bay city" upload which is at least 30 percent yung bae and vaporwave references
what a jam also
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 23 March 2018 16:56 (six years ago) link
the youtube embeds in this thread all disappearing is a bummer :\
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 23 March 2018 16:57 (six years ago) link
oh man it's such a shame having only looked in here for the first time.
That Junko - Communication album is so whopper!
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Saturday, 24 March 2018 07:59 (six years ago) link
This may well have been posed in a previous YouTube upload, but deserves its place in here. Also the artwork is stellar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdBEwe1KKmg
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Saturday, 24 March 2018 08:00 (six years ago) link
plastic love's yt popularity seems to be entirely a quirk of The Algorithm. it constantly appears as a recommended video for basically any japanese music on there and even more now, to the point where it's become a joke among some jpop fans i know. I'm presuming it at some point early on was very successful at getting recommend video clicks which snowballed to make the algorithm push it extremely heavily
― ufo, Saturday, 24 March 2018 10:23 (six years ago) link
props to the Singles Jokebox for sending me to this endless City Pop mix
― Simon H., Wednesday, 4 July 2018 13:39 (five years ago) link
oh yeah that's been in my youtube recommendations for months lol
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Wednesday, 4 July 2018 13:47 (five years ago) link
it's seriously excellent
― Simon H., Wednesday, 4 July 2018 13:47 (five years ago) link
(I was directed via comments on Yubin's "Lady" which also slaps)
― Simon H., Wednesday, 4 July 2018 13:55 (five years ago) link
been jamming this a lot: https://cultures-of-soul.myshopify.com/products/tokyo-nights-female-j-pop-boogie-funk-1981-to-1988
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnXrLjVODaw
― adam, Wednesday, 4 July 2018 15:44 (five years ago) link
Anyone itt fuck with Hoodoo Fushimi?
https://youtu.be/1s8aWYlAuZg
― the oxford book of chaos (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 27 October 2019 19:44 (four years ago) link
That^ whole album, Thanatos of Funk is extremely strong front to back
― the oxford book of chaos (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 27 October 2019 19:45 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRgLhEGEetc
― JacobSanders, Sunday, 19 December 2021 16:19 (two years ago) link