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- Summary: The compilation of 1980s Japanese city pop songs from the Nippon Columbia catalog features 18 tracks selected by DJ Notoya.
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- Record Label: Wewantsounds
- Genre(s): Adult Contemporary, Pop/Rock, Adult Contemporary R&B, Fusion, Soft Rock, Post-Disco, Asian Pop, City Pop
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Dec 21, 2021The compilation highlights these artists’ attention to instrumental detail and their delicate fusion of popular international styles with new technologies to create the sound of a city. It is one that is both of its time and still repeatedly listenable today.
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Dec 21, 2021It invites the listener on an atmospheric adventure into an alternate history, in which the hopes and dreams of modern industry remain intact within the tape decks of sleek automobiles racing down crowded highways by night. Here, the heart of a crystal city remains aglow with the possibilities of eternal youth still alive and well inside the vaults of Nippon Columbia.
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Dec 21, 2021The few '70s selections -- from Sumiko Yamagata, Hiroshi Sato, and Makoto Iwabuchi -- all take easy, pleasant strolls down the middle of the road. Among other more fascinating curiosities are Mizuki Koyama's vivacious pop-R&B hybrid "Oh! Daddy" (with all-English lyrics), Kumi Nakamura's capering "Kimagure" (somewhere between Michael Franks and Seawind), and Haruo Chikada & Vibra-Tones' Kid Creole-indebted "Sofa Bed Blues," the only one that whoops it up (if politely so).
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MojoDec 21, 2021Genre-curious in its sparkle and allure, and most certainly not for everyone. [Feb 2022, p.102]
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