City Pop general
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Yo, anybody in here listen to city pop? Future funk fans look elsewhere.
For the uninitiated:
"City Pop is a breezy, mellow mixture of Smooth Jazz and AOR, often with additional elements of Jazz Fusion, Jazz-Funk or Boogie. Commonly cited as a facet of the prosperous "bubble economy"-era in Japan, City Pop is essentially a "mood" or "lifestyle" genre which appealed to an older and more affluent Japanese audience during the 1980s."
Currently listening to some Toshiki Kadomatsu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrhCH26ugOI
Discuss? Recs? etc.
More examples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0nMHnCBU-U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUQjdwRno5g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF4QQIZcrTM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyavQXZvJnE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QuYQEFEeKU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3r1NZAJlpY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dQBtwVGCfQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P4zTzUaj60
guess not
Everybody agrees that Tatsuro Yamashita is the GOAT right
>>63268219
yes
>>63268219
Taeko Onuki's early albums are my personal favorites, but Tatsuro Yamashita is fantastic.
>tfw no young Taeko Ohnuki gf
>>63268473
>tfw you will never ride the Japanese bubble economy of the 1980's, listening to Taeko Onuki in your Toyota Corolla on the way home from your 100k plus office job to fuck your wife and have your third child that you can afford
A couple of great jams from Minako Yoshida:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gOvDgkZDU0
This one might be a bit early to be true city pop, but it's so goddamn chill, like a Japanese Laura Nyro singing over an Al Green track:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giPQVWEqsSc
>>63267969
that hiroshi satoh track GOT DAMN such fresh robo-sunshine vibes
>>63268539
why even live?
>>63268768
Yeah he's fresh as fuck. Easily the best amongst the synth funk-leaning city pop artists
>>63267969
sorry OP this piques my interest but i dont have any past knowledge of it. would like to see some more recs and some albums worth checking.
WHERE ARE THE DOWNLOAD LINKS!!!
Daily reminder that pic related is objectively Tatsuro Yamashita's best album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgVOklnovPQ
>>63268539
>tfw you'll never experience the burst of the economic bubble and see your qt wife drive off into the sunset with your Toyota Celica and pension and are forced to live in a grimy corner apartment that smells distinctly like old frying oil and are kept up at night by the sound of your elderly neighbor throwing shit at her pet cats
Thank god
