'80s japanese boogie/r&b/freestyle

'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