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Jul 18, 2022
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When Light In The Attic released Pacific Breeze: Japanese City Pop, AOR & Boogie 1976-1986 in 2019, it was the first collection of its kind to be released out
✺ Sunny vinyl repress ✺
The follow up to LITA’s 2019 release Pacific Breeze is again a lovely doublepack of goodies with extensive artist bios in oversized fold-out booklet
Pacific Breeze 1 included Minako Yoshida, Taeko Ohnuki, Hiroshi Sato and Haruomi Hosono among other key players of ‘70s-’80s Japanese City Pop, the nebulous genre that encompassed an “amalgam of AOR, R&B, jazz fusion, funk, boogie and disco, all a touch dizzy with tropical euphoria,” as we described it the first time around.
With Pacific Breeze 2: Japanese City Pop, AOR & Boogie 1972-1986 Light in the Attic dig deeper into those sounds of bubble-era Japan. From the proto-City Pop funk of Bread & Butter and Eiichi Ohtaki to the crate-digger favorites Eri Ohno and Piper, the latest entry in Light In The Attic’s Japan Archival Series brings another set of sought-after tunes, most of which have never before been available outside of Japan. Tomoko Aran and Anri, also included in this compilation, are just a few of the artists who have gained popularity in recent years thanks to Vaporwave, the meme-genre that heavily samples Japanese City Pop to create its particular aesthetic.
Pacific Breeze 2 once again feature the artwork of renowned Tokyo-based illustrator Hiroshi Nagai, whose iconic images of resort living have become synonymous with City Pop. Nagai’s urban tropical imagery is a perfect match for the expertly curated tunes, evoking a certain sense of nostalgia for the leisure lifestyles of ‘70s-’80s Tokyo, while simultaneously being perfectly in tune with the current zeitgeist.
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A1
Bread & Butter - Pink Shadow
3:16
A2
Eiichi Ohtaki - Yubikiri
3:34
A3
Kimiko Kasai - Vibration (Love Celebration)
4:15
A4
The Mystery Kindaichi Band - Kindaichi Kosuke No Theme
3:29
B1
Tetsuji Hayashi - Hidari Mune No Seiza
4:00
B2
Anri - Last Summer Whisper
4:58
B3
Momoko Kikuchi - Blind Curve
4:03
B4
Tomoko Aran - I'm In Love
5:52
C1
Yu Imai - Kindaichi Kosuke Nishi E Iku
3:16
C2
Sadistics - The Tokyo Taste
3:33
C3
Piper - Hot Sand
3:29
C4
Junko Ohashi & Minoya Central Station - Rainy Saturday & Coffee Break
3:43
D1
Eri Ohno - Skyfire
5:12
D2
Yumi Murata - Kanpoo
5:04
D3
Kyoko Furuya - Harumifutou
4:13
D4
Yuji Toriyama - Bay/Sky Provincetown 1977
4:26
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