In 2025, life imitates digital art. When a cohort of vintage Japanese pop songs went viral on YouTube throughout the 2010s, city pop and J-pop went from an absolutely underground interest of a ...

Celebrated archival reissue label Light in the Attic (LITA) announces the latest chapter in its acclaimed Japanese City Pop series, Pacific Breeze, which delivers a mesmerizing blend of AOR, R&B ...

Pacific Breeze 2: Japanese City Pop, AOR & Boogie 1972-1986 features 16 more hard-to-find Japanese city pop cuts. ... CD, and 2xLP vinyl formats. Find physical editions at Rough Trade.

Tel Liyanto wasn’t alive during Japan’s 1980s boom, but she loves the “timeless” City Pop hits of the era, now going viral thanks to a new generation of young, international fans.

And now, the reissue label Light in the Attic is offering up Pacific Breeze: Japanese City Pop, AOR & Boogie 1976–1986, an expansive compilation that offers an idea of what a tech boom can sound ...

Sixties Japanese vinyl was a big thing over there, but not so much 70s and 80s. There was a lot of cultural hesitancy towards City Pop, because the Japanese economy crashed going into the 90s.

Primer: What is Japanese City Pop? : Bullseye with Jesse Thorn We're presenting a preview of Maximum Fun's newest show Primer.In its debut season, music writer Yosuke Kitazawa (PBS SoCal, Light in ...

The upswing of city pop likely originates with the Japanese themselves: a few decades ago, domestic crate diggers started critically reevaluating vintage Japanese music, or wamono.According to DJ ...