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The upside is he has a fantasy image of perfection that he could manifest if he put in the work. The downside is that nothing he listens to will ever live up to it. Chasing the dragon forever. Negative taste (I don't like this because it doesn't live up) vs positive taste (I like this). The...

these are still the most luxurious shit thing i liked about Tokyo was i could turn off a busy road onto a side street and it's just QUIET and has tiny parks and whatever. but yeah i guess i wasn't expecting proper cyberpunk, more like quaint animeverse, which it did live up to.

that's where i met spendy (and that's why i'm here), although we apparently met back on reddit in 2013 arguing about the same stuff that you all have been saying in this thread brooklyn's great, i go to my bodega guy every day and he sells me Georgia-stamp cigarettes

well lets see the post then

also the production can be really good, not quite steely dan tier but sometimes close, so that's another layer of autism

oh dont worry i think it's hilarious; i don't even like 80% of the stuff (typically there's 1-2 good tracks per album, if that...), i'm just too autistic to stop doing whatever the virtual equivalent of crate digging is. it's also interesting to see why the older heads dislike this stuff.

I'll expand on this and say that the fact that it's all in Japanese, a language they/I don't know, is what makes it so resonant in terms of "nostalgia for things never experienced". Weird foreign language, weird foreign time.

Great track but 53rd St is really where it's at. Great Japanese jazz bar there called Tomi Jazz.

Wrote too much, figured I'd put it elsewhere...

The reason Yamashita, Kikuchi, Sato, Matsushita, Kadomatsu, and Anri were recommended was that their music was relatively easy to find online. But there's a huge amount of interesting stuff out there for the crate digger, more than ever before, especially once this blog "jpop80ss" went online...

Moving this over from https://dissensus.com/index.php?threads/16297 because, as it was pointed out, this is a different kind of thing than Hosono et al (YMO). What is City Pop? You could do a lot worse than Wikipedia's description. But I want to post some tracks and some history. I'll start...

You know what? You're absolutely right. I saw Hiroshi Sato and got carried away. I'll make a different thread just for City Pop.

This is the stuff I'm into. We call it "City Pop". Have a whole subreddit for it: https://www.reddit.com/r/citypop. I was gonna make my own thread but this one already exists. Used to be a lot of cratedigging involved, these albums were quite hard to find digitally for years and years...

Haunted Science was my favorite album but I probably found it because Renegade Snares was on Ishkur's guide. Hadn't played GTA back then, but wouldn't surprise me if it did expose ppl to new stuff.

Two things about Plato's cave that ppl forget: - the reason ppl stay in the cave is because the sun outside the cave is blinding and painful - you're supposed to go back into the cave after absorbing the sun's rays and becoming the philosopher king or whatever and lead the ppl still down there

I was sort of early on this one, discovered jungle (and honestly, my first love, happy hardcore) in 2008, as an American suburban 14 year old, thru Ishkur's guide to electronic music and Newgrounds audio forum (I think jungle was popular there because of video game music... think Bomberman for...

The knot is the visual form or metaphor of the "double-bind", the catch 22, tug on one end and the other tightens up. So in this specific case, of the waiter, it's like "be yourself" but also "play your role".

Probably closer to RD Laing, for whom schizophrenia is really about the split in the subject. This was kind of known in Bleuler's time (1910s) but didn't really flourish theoretically until the 50s. Watts is working off Laing in attached, especially because it was Laing who pioneered the idea...