EIGHTIES MEGATHREAD (Page 17)

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Posted by kreol

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Posted by kreol

nice

I think this is modern, but I was thinking about introducing neo retrowave into this thread so it's good

"In the early 1980s, with the spread of car stereos, the term City Pop (シティーポップ Shitī Poppu) came to describe a type of popular music that had a big city theme. Tokyo in particular inspired many songs of this form. During this time, music fans and artists in Japan were influenced by album-oriented rock (especially Adult contemporary) and crossover (especially Jazz fusion)"

A lot of it though are straight covers of 1980s American R&B and Funk, the arrangements, rhythm and composition, and vocals, just sung in Japanese. The anime gifs give it that pièce de résistance ??

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yeah, in the 70s/80s, the japanese were crazy for everything that involved synth and modern instruments. Lots of western bands toured there just for the easy money and disciplined audience.

Then it translated into the videogame and anime music. Lots of great synth jazz pieces in old school videogames.