If you have, pause it when ready, and give the video below about 20 seconds of play time. Both genres feature that same sense of 2nd hand nostalgia and many common themes, but sound completely different. There’s an English term for this, Anemoia. Kondo never claimed originality in his music. More than an hour of Jazz from Japan that was brewed in the 70s (1967-1976) It includes original samples that were used, among others, by Wu Tang members Gza & Rza, Mac Demarco, and Damon Albarn for Gorillaz. Listen to 60s-70s Japanese Instrumental Cinema Funk Breaks by Fabbão for free. Don’t forget to stop by the Future Funk Reddit on your travels. If you’re interested in a sustainable, repairable laptop that’s almost fully Open Source, this is it. Unsurprisingly, it’s songs are used, re-used, and abused to great amuse. We grew up with the style, but never heard the source material. This mix is the first part of Magical Mystery Mix’s series digging 1970s Japanese Jazz Jazz-funk, Soul Jazz, Modal Jazz, and other grooves. 45 minutes of various funky old japanese soundtracks, samples, breaks, and beats. It's post-YouTube success shows this assumption was wrong. This site uses cookies. Mallsoft’s background lounge music aesthetic is great for coding sessions. Until next time. I have Ni No Kuni for PS3 and it’s definitely calming and beautiful, much like the work of Studio Ghibli. But in taking a deeper look, and closer listen, you'll find out that there is much, much more to it than that. But back to the music. This following started moving towards the mainstream through late night TV. (all killer, no filler)Originally released for Knocksteady (Podcast #41):Tripmastermonk - Knocksteady Zencast Vol. I love Mitxela’s hardware projects. I hope you’ve enjoyed this issue of Tales From The Dork Web. If Japanese Fusion was old Japan's funk soul brother, 80s City Pop was something else. Hiroshi Kawaguchi’s Sega work inspired Kavinsky’s genre-defining music. They were filled with bad hair and bad fashion. Outside of Japan, very few people had heard of City Pop until recently. Archived. I’ve decided not to participate based on the fact that I already have more laptops than uses. Early songs would often lament the loss of good times while conveniently forgetting the bad. From the 80s onwards, Japanese Anime began to build a cult following in the west. It’s sample heavy, slowed down loops from Diana Ross’ “It’s Your Move” are reminiscent of Eccojams. For now, lets start with Friendship’s Jazz classic, “Let’s not talk about it”. It’s a light, fluffy bubble-gum-flavoured up-beat 80s City-Pop song. This in itself was often Natsukashii in action. Samplefiends rejoice! Close. Japanese Fusion and City Pop was rarely seen outside of Japan. The thing about the Commodore 64 is it’s very specific sound thanks to an audio chip called SID. What does it mean to have songs etched into your head from a genre you never knew? It’s worth a watch even if you’re not into Jazz. It’s recently been remastered and re-released on Nintendo Switch. 45 minutes of various funky old japanese soundtracks, samples, breaks, and beats. In the same way we may experience Anemoia, the Japanese experience Natsukashii. Minoru Muraoka 村岡実 – Take Five (Bamboo, 1970, United artists records) 2. Some see Music as the soundtrack to our lives. Online Interpretations of Plastic Love tend to miss the actual lyrics. Japanese video game, cartoon and anime music made City Pop a familiar sound we could never explore. Every time I hit a brick wall, I look at projects like his tiny Midi contraptions, portable Jacob’s Ladder and his games console. Albums like Friendship’s were popular in Japan, and artists like Koji Kondo drew inspiration from them as well as Japanese Fusion. From the catchy, up-beat infectious vibes of Macross 82-99 above to Yung Bae’s Bae City Rollaz, Future funk is the upbeat vibe for all tomorrow’s parties. This Smiths music video shows how the 80s really looked. Take Piper’s Summer Breeze above. If you haven’t subscribed, you can make sure you never miss The Dork Web using the form below. Vaporwave was born out of recycling others’ sounds. Popular culture in the 1970s is often misremembered as being all about bellbottoms and disco. Playlist. As with Fusion, City Pop inspired Japanese video game music, and Hiroshi Kawaguchi was no exception. When we played Bubble Bobble, Ghostbusters or certain C64 games, grinning 40-somethings would flock to our table. That City Pop vibe is no accident. Roachy pointed me at this piece showing even Cyberpunk godfather William Gibson’s struggling to keep up in a world stranger than fiction. All made in Japan. The first part of Magical Mystery Mix's 1970s Japanese Jazz series, a little more than an hour of deep Jazz brewed during the 70s in Japan. To find out more, read our, This site requires JavaScript to run correctly. Their sound is often softer, lighter and less Kavinsky-esque than Perturbator. Some say that Vaporwave’s origins trace back to two albums. Sampling is integral to Future Funk, and even present in Outrun. Summer Breeze came out two years before Super Mario Bros. 8. Posted by. The copyright holders of some of this music were gracious enough to opt to monetize this content rather than have it removed. Japanese 80's Funk//City Pop by Cyber Chic published on 2017-07-10T22:49:16Z There's some 70's and 60's music up here, I have a separate playlist for vintage Japanese artist but this is mainly a playlist consisting of 80's jams insta:Disco.gal I post videos of cute idols and nostalgic 80s/70s Japanese hits The vacuum helped create nostalgia for a time we never experience, in a place we couldn’t have been. Creative, Curious, Crazy about Music. Finally in the early 90s, the bubble burst overnight, giving way to Japan’s lost decade. Terumasa Hino 日野皓正 Quartet – Soulful (Alone, Alone and Alone, 1967, takt Jazz Seies) 3. The Best Collection Of Movie Themes 5 & 6 [ The Western Movie Themes - The Spectacular Movie Themes] Ensemble Petit & Screenland Orchestra, The Alan Tew Orchestra, Caravelli And His Magnificent Strings, Mitch Miller And The Gang, Frankie Laine, The Brothers Four, Percy Faith & His Orchestra, Bobby Hackett, The Briarcliff Strings. Western rock, Jazz and a style of music called Japanese (Jazz) Fusion were major influences. 40 different 7" (45rpm) vinyl records. Artists like Saint Pepsi dance around the line between Vaporwave and Future Funk. Latest Additions Latest Edits Title, A-Z Title, Z-A Most Collected Most Wanted Hot. I’m unsurprised Japanese musicians inspired by western styles would inspire Japanese musicians. Future Funk is to City Pop as Outrun is… to City Pop. A whole hour of Japanese jazz from the 70’s including rare groove, jazz fusion, drum breaks, and more. Check out Desired’s Timeless, Moe Shop’s Shop Moe EP and Flamingo Funk Vol 1 from My Pet Flamingo. If you’ve ever played Nintendo games growing up there’ll be certain music carved into your mind. If you’d like to explore Japanese Fusion, Tatsuro Yashita’s Come Along is a great starting point. VA - 70s Funk Classics (2021) 16-02-2021, 08:21 Artist : Various Artists Title : 70s Funk Classics Year Of Release : 2021 Genre : Funk , Soul , R&B Quality : FLAC (tracks) / MP3 Total Size : … Once you start looking it's everywhere. If you haven’t pressed play earlier, scroll up, hit play and give it 30 seconds before continuing. Jazz, jazz fusion, post-bop, funk, progressive rock, rock and roll, soul Miles Davis , Mahavishnu Orchestra , Jack Bruce , Kenny Kirkland , John McLaughlin As leader: Spectrum (1973), with Mahavishnu Orchestra : The Inner Mounting Flame (1971), Birds of Fire (1972), Between Nothingness and Eternity (1973), The Lost Trident Sessions (1973) There was an assumption at the time that Western ears wouldn’t like Japanese language music. In this set I played some of my favourite Japanese female singers from 70's to early 80's. The unforgettable funk of '70s and '80s Japanese City Pop The unforgettable funk of ’70s and ’80s Japanese City Pop Mid '70s and '80s Japan is in the spotlight as we take a trip back in time He joined Nintendo from school. Prior to this, City Pop beamed into 80s kids heads through Saturday morning cartoons theme songs from Trans-Formers, Jem and others. Just like how The Sugarhill Gang’s Rapper's Delight draws a line between toasting and Rap, Ruby Ring does the same for 80s City Pop. 0% 409 Views. Listen to Low Resolution 8 - 70s/80s Japanese Jazz/Funk/Fusion Set by Mixed Feelings for free. Each record has been professionally cleaned and the original PVC outer sleeves have all been replaced with BRAND NEW. Nowhere is that more visible than in Outrun and Future Funk. People who grew up with the computer know that sound. Pinterest. What links Vaporwave to Future Funk is the wholesale sampling of entire tunes, and using them to create something else. Outrun’s biggest aesthetic elements are founded in a false image of the 1980s. 60s-70s Japanese Instrumental Cinema Funk Breaks & Beats. Thank you for understanding. Japanese Fusion and City Pop music rarely made it to Western shores. It’s my sincere hope that inside these musical worlds you'll find something as special as you. Kung Fury has everything Outrun. Plastic love’s growth on YouTube and Reddit introduced Vaporwave listeners and producers to the world of City Pop. The artists on this list fused genres, cultures, and sonically diverse sounds—yielding a vast cultural experience that ranged from bright shining soul to the birth of glam rock. For me, discovering new Music is one of the purest forms of joy. If a genre can arise out of Hiroshi Kawaguchi’s 80s musical scores, from where did he draw his inspiration? YouTuber StevenM covers the bittersweet song’s story and it’s revival below. I’m not a fan of posting passive aggressive stuff, but I got bored a while back and made this as an excuse to play with Bootstrap 4. J Jazz 70 : Jazz From Japan 70s 80s / Bop / Jazz-Funk / Fusion / Spiritual is a playlist on Spotify. “Hiro”, wrote 80s arcade game music for After Burner, Space Harrier and Out Run. I’ll be back in two weeks writing about some of the things I’ve been hacking around on. Like The Smiths video earlier, they were far more bittersweet than the upbeat melody implies. Magical Mystery Mix have uploaded the second volume of their 70s Japanese Jazz Mix on YouTube and it’s a stonker. Are our feelings about Zelda's Fairy Mountain theme linked to Kondo’s feelings for Tatsuro Yamashita's Morning Glory? Inspired by this, a new western music genre and aesthetic appeared called Future Funk. It was originally termed as an offshoot of Japan's Western-influenced "new music", but came to include a wide range of styles associated with the country's leisure class and nascent economic boom, such as AOR, soft rock, R&B, funk, and boogie. Tied to the 80s Japanese boom time, for better or worse City Pop was everything new Japan. This music genre first gained momentum when the Jamaican reggae legend Keyboardist Jun Fukamachi made several fusion records in the 70s and this album from 1975 is probably one with the most blending of progressive rock into it. Why does music people haven’t heard in decades have such an effect on people? Most of these titles were originally released on the East Wind and Electric Bird labels in Japan in the late 70’s to mid 80’s. Meanwhile, LeadedSolder documented the process of repairing a fairly useless but pretty Japanese Casio MSX computer. It includes different genres taken together : Hard Bop, Jazz-funk, Soul Jazz, Jazz Fusion, Drum Breaks, Easy Listening, Rare Groove.. Thanks to the modern Internet you can now explore the source. The Eccojams album and James Ferraro’s Far Side Virtual are considered by commentators to be proto-vaporwave, being distinct while sharing common elements. I know I’ll regret not buying this when a usable RISC-V CPU board eventually comes out. I see Outrun as a Synthwave sub-genre. Follow Mixed Feelings to never miss another show. Follow Fabbão to never miss another show. It was an underground hit. As well as a music genre, it’s an aesthetic defined by pastel colours, glitch art, Greco-Roman busts and Japanese influences. The music inspired by this did, througho ther mediums. When music artists who were never there look back in completely different directions, strange but familiar things happen. It’s a bit like the difference between The Beatles’ Sergeant Pepper and Madonna’s Vogue. Come explore this mix of their traditional instruments with the music of Afro-Culture from the United States of America. You can stop it if you don’t like it. Black Banshee’s albums have provided a more approachable and less rip-driven sound. Outside of Japan, very few people had heard of City Pop until recently. Michael Seba’s deep dive above charts the journey from City Pop to Future Funk better than I ever could. At the time soul and funk became popular, English wasn’t a commonly well spoken language in Japan. Tied to the 80s Japanese boom time, for better or worse City Pop was everything new Japan. Prev. NewRetroWave on YouTube is great for playlists. If Japanese Fusion was old Japan's funk soul brother, 80s City Pop was something else. Regardless of Plastic Love as a song, if it broadens people’s musical horizons that can only be a good thing. There are multiple artists named Perfume: 1) Perfume is a three-girl j-pop / electro-pop group from Hiroshima, Japan … 0 Likes. Sylvain Lefebvre designed a CPU and implemented it on an FPGA with no instructions, no opcodes and no program counter, just to run the first level of Doom. They’re on the same pop continuum but aren’t really the same sound. But if the sounds of our childhood were influenced by music we never heard, itself inspired by music we did, have these influences travelled in the other direction? Japanese Premium resealable chemical-free outers. Just as with video game music, Japanese City Pop would find new audiences in other mediums. MNT’s Reform Laptop crowdfunding campaign is up. Here’s some of Joe Hisaishi’s beautiful music. That music western kids never heard inspired a generation of producers blew my mind. Twitter. Hiroshi Suzuki 鈴木弘 – Kuro to Shiro (Cat, 1975, Nippon-Columbia) 4. To western ears, Future Funk sounds familiar but fresh. 0 0 0. help us spread the message (1978) Watch videos on youtube. Japanese Fusion is a style of music heavily influenced by western Jazz, soul and funk but with a completely Japanese take. Some, like Vosto Vlad above refer to Outrun as Synthwave. Intro 1. 60s-70s Japanese Instrumental Cinema Funk Breaks & Beats Retrological. Tracks like “Meikyu” and “Shin-Ku” definitely stand out in this respect, while “Rokuyu” is a very experimental cut on … The line isn’t immediately visible, but it's there if you look for it. Despite it’s obvious Japanese connection, Future Funk is considered by some to be a Vaporwave off-shoot. As an aside, Vox made an amazing video about Giant Steps covering the song’s story and the theory behind it. Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul, jazz, and rhythm and blues (R&B). It shares syncopation found in earlier music but FM synthesizers and modern guitar sounds make 80s City Pop stand out. Artists of note include Perturbator, Com Truise, Kavinsky and College. I also hope you’ve found some enjoyable new music. The 80s weren’t filled with neon lights, synths and sports cars. Game music in general drew on all kinds of musical inspirations. This list tries to include all artists/bands from all genres originating from Japan.This list does not include artists/bands who perform in Japanese but are of different origin. If, like me you were alive in the 80s, you’ll recognise all this as Natukashii writ large. If you haven’t seen a Ghibli movie you’re missing out. If you’ve ever seen a Studio Ghibli movie, you’ve heard his music. Nor was he the only Japanese video game musician to draw inspiration from other songs. Search this release. Feel free to use it, or not. Much of City Pop sounds upbeat, but like the Smiths earlier, it can be bittersweet. I wanted to write about Michael Jackson’s Sonic The Hedgehog 3 game soundtrack but I ran out of space. Listening to the original music, is the nostalgia we experience our own, or Kondo's? Likewise, I’ve found Mohit Boite’s sculptures a souce of inspiration for years since I first saw his SevenSeg clock above back in 2015. LESSONS LEARNED: JAPAN loves jazz music. More so when Outrun's hard synths become too distracting. Next. From Kondo's Mario to Sega Rally 2 ripping off John Coltrane’s classic Giant Steps. I’ll end with a quote from Studio Ghibli’s From Up on Poppy Hill: “There’s no future for people who worship the future, and forget the past.”. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before, but sounds or the notes, almost all music ends up recycled. The most Outrun movie is probably 2011’s Drive, Laser Unicorn’s Kung Fury notwithstanding. French Producer Kavinsky pioneered Outrun's music and aesthetic. The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows explores this word above. for more music:https://bit.ly/zengangsterballadfollow me on Instagram for my latest content:http://instagram.com/tripmastermonk It got me wondering why this is. Some see a single City Pop narrative stretching from the 60s through the 80s, but there are substantial differences between 70s fusion music and 80s City Pop. If you want to get into Synthwave or explore Outrun culture, the Outrun reddit is a good starting point. Compare it to this music from the original Super Mario Bros NES game, below. This issue features a lot of music so I’ll introduce pieces as they’re explored. I wrote a guide on how to get the most from The Dork Web. 70s Japanese Jazz Mix (Jazz-funk, Soul Jazz, Rare groove, Drum Breaks..) 0. Please, Amazon Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death. She makes fantastic pixel art on the Amiga, and I’m hoping to feature her art at some point in the future. If you listened to Kavinsky’s nightcall earlier, the same notes play at the start of Kawaguchi’s Splash Wave. Spin-off, remix and response genres such as Hardvapour, Simpsonwave and Mallsoft pop in and out of existence. Fusion is related to another style of music, City Pop. As Japan’s boom continued City Pop became intrinsically linked to the boom's optimism. The song’s upbeat vibes sound more like Far Side Virtual. It’s built on and evokes nostalgia for a time that never was, in a place that never existed. Even if it takes Giant Steps. It’s quite a thing to see music we’ve heard, inspired by music we haven’t heard go on to inspire new generations of music. 45 minutes of various funky old japanese soundtracks, samples, breaks, and beats. City Pop’s upbeat, optimistic vision didn’t fit in with this period, and in Japan it’s popularity waned till it almost completely faded away. 1 – 50 of 7,721. A curated collection of Japanese Jazz from the 70s and early 80s. ◦ This mix is the first part of the “70s Japanese Jazz Mix” series created by Dckne. Click the button below to sign up. Koji Kondo is behind some of the most recognisable music in Nintendo’s early games. We form emotional attachments to the same notes, but have none of his experiences. If you’re reading this online you can get Tales From The Dork Web in your inbox every fortnight. If the links are a little overwhelming, it’ll help. Millions of kids grew up indirectly with this music. 1 year ago. 2: Ninja Funk \u0026 Gangster Ballads: Ode to the Brotherland *I have no control over any of the ad placements. One song in particular helped define vaporwave, "リサフランク420 / 現代のコンピュー", translated as Lisa Frank 420 / Modern Computing. City pop (シティ・ポップ, shitī poppu) is a loose category of Japanese pop music that emerged in the late 1970s and peaked in the 1980s. Listen to the Inspector Gadget theme above. 206,140 listeners. This issue introduces hopefully new-to-you genres of music. Various genres included such as R&B, Disco, Dance, Ballad, Funk & Soul. There are some really good lesser known albums here , the pick of which is the Hubert Eaves Esoteric Funk really good Funky Jazz Fusion. mighty ryeders. A fantastic dip into the world of Japanese funk during the 70s – a great place to start if you don't want to slap down big money for expensive imports – and a set that's also got a fair bit of obscure numbers in the lineup, even if you have some of the material from this time! Whether it's Zelda's Fairy Fountain theme, Super Mario Bros 3's Water Map theme or Tatsuro Yamashita’s Morning Glory doesn’t matter. With Vaporwave, we’ve often heard and quickly recognise those sources as borrowed. Facebook. If you're playing Friendship’s Lets not talk about it, it may sound familiar. Japanese Funk Artists Perfume. Just as City Pop inspired Kondo, Kawaguchi inspired Kavinsky. For me, Kavinsky’s outrun feels like the evolution of Daft Punk’s Interstella 5555. 70s Japanese Jazz Mix Vol.2 (Jazz-funk, Soul Jazz, Rare groove, Drum Breaks..) The Second part of Magical Mystery Mix's 1970s Japanese Jazz series, an hour of deep Jazz brewed during the 70s in Japan. Including original samples that were used, among others, by Gza & Rza from Wu-Tang, Mac Demarco, Gorillaz.. Exploring Japan and Jazz-Funk. Iyahshikei is a Japanese Genre of ‘soothing’ games. Outrun is a musical sub-genre with an associated aesthetic, closely linked to Vaporwave. As well as Japanese music, Kondo also borrowed from Deep Purple and other Western bands. For every great John Carpenter movie, there were 10 as bad as Amazon Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death. In some ways Vaporwave is a meme-driven feedback loop. Note the use of 80s Japanese synthesizers, syncopated riffs and a bubble-gum City Pop style chorus. Japanese 1980s Funk: amazing 70-minute musical groove mixtape Colin Marshall 10:36 am Mon Feb 2, 2015 If offered the chance to visit any time and place in the 20th century, I'd go to Japan … A few years ago Mariya Takeuchi’s Plastic Love rippled through the Vaporwave community. 26. As with Fusion, City Pop inspired Japanese video game music, and Hiroshi Kawaguchi was no exception. That music can create nostalgia for things that don’t exist, or for things borrowed from people we never knew. If you’ve ever played Mario games you’ve heard Kondo’s music. So instead, I’ll leave it to The D-Pad, above to explain. Outrun music loads up on 80s synthesizers, reverb effects and drum machine beats. The car, the synths, the neon purple lights. For the funkier end, and CasioPea’s Mint Jams for more Jazz-fuelled influences. Consequently, a lot of Japanese Fusion was either instrumental or (obviously) sung in Japanese, with a sprinkle of English words. Last year I went touring UK security events with two Commodore 64 computers from the 80s. Light in the Attic Records’ upcoming release Even A Tree Can Shed Tears: Japanese Folk & Rock 1969-1973 collects a number of essential folk and rock songs from the angura, or underground, movement of late ‘60s-early ‘70s Japan.