Forgotten Treasure: Hiroshi Sato “Orient” (1979)
The world of rare Japanese Funk & Soul is a vast and expensive one to visit. The kind of realm that can be dangerous for your record budget once you start falling deep into. But there is something absolutely irresistible about the pop music that was coming out of Japan in …
Forgotten Treasure: Eri Ohno “Skyfire” (1981)
Sometimes a song is so good and unexpected that there is not that much more to add other than just sitting back and enjoying it. Much like my post on the classic Hawaiian Rare Groove from Nohelani Cypriano, this song just hit me right away and I had to tell …
Ed Motta presents Vol. 2 of City Pop (mid-70’s Japanese Pop)
via Ed Mota (for Wax Poetics): City Pop is a sub-genre of J-Pop (Japanese Pop), but it’s more specific with a soulful element and influences from West Coast pop and soft rock, starting in the mid-’70s with the first groups formed by Tatsuro Yamashita and Haruomi Hosono. City Pop is …
Tribute to YAMASHITA TATSURO – Selected by Prince Klassen
Wow. Talk about some heavy digging! Dead serious mix from our friend Prince Klassen from NYC. From Prince Klassen: “The goal of the mix was to celebrate one of my favorite Japanese musicians that surely gets the credit he deserves but rarely observed as one of the world’s greatest and …
Guest Mix #31: N’GAHO TA’QUIA aka SAUCE81 (Japan)
Wonderful new exclusive mix from Tokyo’s N’gaho Ta’quia who you might also know from his other production moniker, Sauce 81. He has been producing under the Sauce 81 name since 2008 and has remixed artists like Tokimonsta, Sweatson Klank and Fitz Ambro$e. This year’s new LP as N’gaho Ta’quia called …