Various – Pacific Breeze: Japanese City Pop (Tricolor Vinyl)

Label:
Light In The Attic
Art.No.:
09546237
Cat.No.:
LITA 163

Released:
2020
First Date:
2019
Cover:
Picture
Format:
2LP
Pressing:
US - Reissue
State:
New
Vinyl:
Cover:
Genre:
Disco / Boogie + Black Grooves + Rock / Indie
Tags:
haruomi hosono, alan vega, acetone
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Various - Pacific Breeze: Japanese City Pop (Tricolor Vinyl)
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2020 Repress - Limited Edition "Beach Ball" Blue, Yellow, Red Tricolor Vinyl!

- Cover art by famed artist Hiroshi Nagai 
- Extensive liner notes and bios 
- Compiled by Andy Cabic (Vetiver), Zach Cowie (DJ & music supervisor) and Mark “Frosty” McNeill (dublab) 
- Remastered audio 

Pacific Breeze documents Japan’s blast into the stratosphere. By the 1960s, the nation had achieved a postwar miracle, soaring to become the world’s second largest economy. Thriving tech exports sent The Rising Sun over the moon. Its pocket cassette players, bleeping video games, and gleaming cars boomed worldwide, wooing pleasure points and pumping Japanese pockets full of yen. 

Japan’s financial buoyancy also permeated its popular culture, birthing an audio analog called City Pop. This new sound arose in the mid ’70s and ruled through the ’80s, channeling the country’s contemporary psyche. It was sophisticated music mirroring Japan’s punch-drunk prosperity. City Pop epitomized the era, providing a soundtrack for emerging urbanites. An optimistic spirit buzzed through the music in neon-bathed, gauzy tableaus coated with groove-heavy strokes. 

Pacific Breeze is an expertly compiled collection of choice cuts that range from silky smooth grooves to innovative techno pop bangers and everything in between. Long-revered by crate diggers and adventurous music heads, this music has never been released outside of Japan until now. Including key artists like Taeko Ohnuki and Minako Yoshida, as well as cult favorites Hitomi Tohyama and Hiroshi Sato, the long-awaited release also features newly commissioned cover painting by Tokyo-based artist Hiroshi Nagai, whose iconic images of resort living have graced the covers of many classic City Pop albums of the 1980s. 

Many of the key City Pop players evolved from the Japanese New Music scene of the early ’70s, as heard on Light In The Attic’s acclaimed Even a Tree Can Shed Tears: Japanese Folk & Rock 1969-1973, the first release of the ongoing Japan Archival Series. In fact, you could say City Pop set sail with a champagne smash from Happy End, the freakishly talented subversives who included amongst their ranks Haruomi Hosono and Shigeru Suzuki, both featured on this compilation. As Michael K. Bourdaghs noted in his book, Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon, this music was, “Deconstructing the line between imitation and authenticity.” Some of the best City Pop teeters in this zone—easy listening with mutant exotica, tilted techno-pop, and steamy boogie bubbling beneath the gloss.

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TitleFeaturingProducingTime
A1. Tomoko Soryo - I Say Who03:11
A2. Taeko Ohnuki - Kusuri Wo Takusan04:10
A3. Minako Yoshida - Midnight Driver07:42
A4. Nanako Satoh - Subterranean F...03:17
B1. Haruomi Hosono - Sports Men04:04
B2. Mimi Izumi Kobayashi - Coffee...05:28
B3. Friends Of Earth - In My Jungle06:43
B4. Akira Inoue , Hiroshi Sato , ...03:41
C1. Hiroshi Sato - Say Goodbye03:37
C2. Yukihiro Takahashi - Drip Dry...05:32
C3. Masayoshi Takanaka - Bamboo V...03:27
C4. Shigeru Suzuki - Lady Pink Pa...02:57
D1. Haruomi Hosono , Takahiko Ish...04:02
D2. Yasuko Agawa - L.A. Night05:30
D3. Hitomi "Penny" Tohyama - Exot...04:35
D4. Tazumi Toyoshima - Machibouke02:45
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