Popshot compilations12/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Many New Music stars including Haruomi Hosono and Shigeru Suzuki of Happy End - credited as the first rock group to sing in Japanese - went on to make City Pop. Prior to the early Seventies, most Japanese rock acts sang in English (New Music was covered on Light in the Attic’s 2017 compilation Even a Tree Can Shed Tears). The roots of City Pop lie in New Music, a folk-rock hybrid that drew inspiration from the Band, Bob Dylan and the Laurel Canyon set, but crucially featured artists singing in Japanese. “This was music made by city people, for city people.” “There were no restrictions on style or a specific genre that we wanted to convey with these songs,” Kitazawa tells Rolling Stone. Ultimately, City Pop is less a strict genre term than a broad vibe classification. Kitazawa cites Masayoshi Takanaka’s 1979 song “Bamboo Vender” and a 1980 track by Minako Yoshida, “Midnight Driver,” as two songs on Pacific Breeze that exemplify City Pop: the former a lush, tropical romp, the latter a thumping rug-cutter befitting its title. Cabic helped compile the record with Mark “Frosty” McNeill, founder of the online radio station Dublab, and Zach Cowie, a DJ and music supervisor, with assistance from Yosuke Kitazawa, who’s overseeing the Japan Archival Series. Pacific Breeze is the latest installment in Light in the Attic’s ongoing Japan Archival Series. ![]() And now, the reissue label Light in the Attic is offering up Pacific Breeze: Japanese City Pop, AOR & Boogie 1976–1986, an expansive compilation that offers an idea of what a tech boom can sound like. Forty years later, City Pop has seen something of a resurgence as pop music adjusts to a new technological paradigm dominated by streaming. An opulent amalgamation of pop, disco, funk, R&B, boogie, jazz fusion, Latin, Caribbean and Polynesian music, the genre was inextricably tied to a tech-fueled economic bubble and the wealthy new leisure class it created. Much of the music Cabic heard that day belonged to a style that was booming in Japan during the late Seventies and early Eighties - City Pop. ![]() “But if you hear it in a different way, it awakens something, like, ‘Holy shit!’ … To hear that again from another culture with so many nods to what was happening in America, it’s like getting a fresh listen to the stuff you may have already heard and thought you knew.” “The AOR, the West Coast pop, you’ve heard that stuff a gazillion times, your brain starts to sort of shut down or go on automatic when you hear it again,” Cabic says. It sounded like American soft rock, AOR, West Coast pop and boogie from the same era, but there was something uncanny about it. He spent the next few hours tucked in a listening booth, devouring this music that was at once totally new, yet somehow familiar. The musician, who fronts the folk-rock band Vetiver, was on tour with Devendra Banhart in the mid-2000s when he walked into the store and found displays highlighting Japanese artists from the Seventies and Eighties, like Tatsuro Yamashita, Sugar Babe and Happy End. Try it, if you find it.Andy Cabic was exploring the stacks in a Tower Records in Japan when he had an epiphany. It shows fantasies from teacher to pool-beauties to garden to helicopters to I dunno, with sexual actions everywhere, so a lot of fantasies are covered. Some might despise this kind of "Best Of" Movie, or hate Adult Movies more than me, but sometimes it's not about a genre in general, that you dislike, but finding the one movie in the genre you might like. But my girl and me bought it on VHS for 2 Euros ( under 2$) and had fun, it was showing a dozens of different episodes from porn-flics by Private, but without never ending camera angles, without story, just concentrating on beautiful women getting one facial after another. It's quite tough for two persons earning their wages by always drawing nudes. I dislike, I HATE porno-flics, IF they are not drawn without storyline showing just stupid f***ing. The same time the camera stands to still, never moving, always showing the mans ass. I always despised real pornographic movies, since they normally show women always horny, men touching their breasts and the women go wild, absolutely nothing, that would happen in real life. To be honest again, I am what you might call an artist, drawing Comics and acts ( nudes) from Women, portraits and stuff.
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