'80s japanese boogie/r&b/freestyle

was a little embarrassed to be jamming out to this recently

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DULR826A54

not boogie by a stretch, this is pure city pop (do we have a thread on that?)

i'm not entirely sure what the difference between "japan boogie" and "city pop" is. folks like the ymo peeps and tatsuro yamashita are pivotal figures in city pop, but i see a lot of their stuff called "boogie". my gut feeling on this, given that knowledge of city pop as a genre didn't seem to permeate to the english-speaking internet until around 2013 or later, is that they refer to roughly the same thing. is there a such thing as '80s japan boogie that wouldn't qualify as city pop?

i feel like boogie has to have more dance/funk influences while a lot of city pop is pure MOR. but obviously there's plenty of overlap.

what's up, favorite thread i ever started. a fellow ilxor posted this on my facebook page the other day and it fuckin rules:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-akuHHopkKM

i suppose everybody here already knows this song but just in case

this is the catchiest thing i've heard in... a decade?

it's been on repeat in my house for months

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUQjdwRno5g

I've probably gone too far with this, but I've been enjoying the smoother side of city pop, like Horii Katsumi Project and Kingo Hamada.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvXOHIlY1KA

there's definitely a point when i listen to some of this when i'm like, "wait a minute, am i listening to dave koz?" and question the very foundations of my taste.

Really enjoying this thread. Friend sent me Soichi Terada - Sumo Jungle which is wicked

this whole album is really great, but damn, this ひと夏のタペストリー in particular...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8K0zJ5x_GE&t=1423s#

argh, scratch that "this" :-/

hmmm:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8K0zJ5x_GE&t=1423s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8K0zJ5x_GE

ok, guess timestamps are tricky

tomoko aran "ひと夏のタペストリー"

good shit

Toshinobu Kubota - Groovin'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQZYdaBD6mo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKmPfdYy5y8

wow @ this book (from the same publisher that did Obscure Sound.) another tantalizing catalogue of awesome looking records

https://www.dustygroove.com/item/752875

Japanese Groove Disc Guide A to Z (paperback)

This time around, the folks at Rittor – who've given us other great record books over the years – turn their talents to the world of Japanese groove, particularly from the 70s and early 80s – a time when so many Japanese artists were picking up on the best styles in American soul, and using the music to come up with some great grooves of their own!

SEXY ROBOT

I've been enjoying this compilation a lot lately:

https://www.discogs.com/Various-Lovin-Mighty-Fire-Nippon-Funk-Soul-Disco-1973-1983/release/9886561

'rainbow paradise' by masayoshi takanaka on that is a keeper

I'm still working through the entire thing (thanks for the rec) but the Hosono track seems like the best composition so far.

ya that one's great too. could listen to the jam in the last minute and a half of it for a long time

Live streaming city pop tunes on YouTube w/ driving footage - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IiPLJfANrM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojqKOE9Ezf0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbpS_elm8Q4

oh yeah that's the stuff

lit

I posted this in the future funk thread but have you guys figured out why this has 8 million plus views https://youtu.be/3bNITQR4Uso

combo of youtube suggestions algorithm + autoplay afaict? comments section is full of the phrase "randomly stumbled upon this." very dissimilar form the comments section on my "bay city" upload which is at least 30 percent yung bae and vaporwave references

what a jam also

the youtube embeds in this thread all disappearing is a bummer :\

oh man it's such a shame having only looked in here for the first time.

That Junko - Communication album is so whopper!

This may well have been posed in a previous YouTube upload, but deserves its place in here. Also the artwork is stellar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdBEwe1KKmg

plastic love's yt popularity seems to be entirely a quirk of The Algorithm. it constantly appears as a recommended video for basically any japanese music on there and even more now, to the point where it's become a joke among some jpop fans i know. I'm presuming it at some point early on was very successful at getting recommend video clicks which snowballed to make the algorithm push it extremely heavily

props to the Singles Jokebox for sending me to this endless City Pop mix

oh yeah that's been in my youtube recommendations for months lol

it's seriously excellent

(I was directed via comments on Yubin's "Lady" which also slaps)

been jamming this a lot: https://cultures-of-soul.myshopify.com/products/tokyo-nights-female-j-pop-boogie-funk-1981-to-1988

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnXrLjVODaw

Anyone itt fuck with Hoodoo Fushimi?

https://youtu.be/1s8aWYlAuZg

That^ whole album, Thanatos of Funk is extremely strong front to back

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRgLhEGEetc