but it's come back though there's people who are digging through soundcloud right now to learn more about itthat became cool in 2004, where ya been?
LOL, a baile funk revival? nu-baile?
okwell, let's get some links then
@william_kent i mean its far more upbeat than the average "city pop" song for one but its also alot messier sounding
i mean look as long as i don't have to see people be like "yknow Mussolini's granddaughter made a city pop song and turns out...its not that bad" like their trying to defend Skrewdriver's first album, i'll be alright
i agree keep it a buck i've often felt some of the stuff in city pop that gets propped up if it wasn't made in Japan and tied to Vaporwave's fascination/fetishisation of 80's Japan people wouldn't careI associate city pop with "sophistication" and over produced MOR, while funk carioca has always seemed to be a bit more cheap samplers and low bitrate to me
see i disagree with this cause a large reason why Japan had the prosperity it had was built of the back of them running large parts of south east asia ragged, Thailand, the Philippines,Manchuria so it's not so cut and dry as it being "human"one thing that has been said many times, by me and others, is that the last human future we had was japanese. now the future is china, saudi, dubai... slave labour. survelliance, authoritarianism etc well grim
i feel like alot of people who moved to London as a way of escaping their provincial town english suburban lives have this same kind of shock, they think they can hide it under getting into a new subculture and switching up their fashion but problem is all their old friends had the exact same idea and followed suit.One of the first things I ever wrote as an adult that wasn't for school, I don't stand by a lot of it and especially not the prose, but it happened. Wrote a buncha stuff like this in 2013/14 I've talked about this before on the board. Getting to youth culture in the big city in New York City getting to liberal arts school, after growing up in a smallish town, you expect to board the Mothership, here it is, exciting cultural things, I can integrate into the stream of the New, the avant, artistic innovation, and everyone's playing 70s throwback guitar music. Incredibly disillusioning. Took years of processing
"Obscure City Pop Disc Guide" covers 512 disc reviews of hard-core and obscure Japanese city pop and its related music released 'on CD' from 1986 to 2006. No Tatsuro Yamashita, Taeko O'onuki or other Japanese city pop superstars.
Edited and written by lightmellowbu
Japanese, 272 pages, full-color, paper back (15 x 21cm), with obi
ISBN: 9784866471136
Publisher: DU BOOKS (Japan)
Date of publication: January, 2020
but then also they're the same ones to turn around and look at people who move to London afterwards and complain about gentrifiers not thinking about their roles in all of it
god i wish i had a copy of thisI don't think this book has been mentioned - one for the collectors
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It was available from EM records on bandcamp but is now sold out - I don't have a copy ( not interested in the genre ) but might be of interest to some...
definitely agree. problem is that there's also plenty of stuff where i literally cannot find western equivalents that are any good, like mid-80s Hiroshi Sato. Find me something that sounds like this, I look forward to it:i agree keep it a buck i've often felt some of the stuff in city pop that gets propped up if it wasn't made in Japan and tied to Vaporwave's fascination/fetishisation of 80's Japan people wouldn't care
this is also what happened when City Pop morphed into Shibuya Kei in the early 90s. the hi-fi vs lo-fi pendulum keeps on swinginI associate city pop with "sophistication" and over produced MOR, while funk carioca has always seemed to be a bit more cheap samplers and low bitrate to me
god i wish i had a copy of this