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Pacific Breeze: Japanese City Pop, AOR & Boogie 1976-1986
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  • 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)
  • 2xLP housed in a deluxe wide spine jacket with over sized fold-out booklet, full color printed inner sleeves, and custom die-cut obi card
  • CD in a UV coated Digipak with oversized fold-out booklet and custom die-cut obi card
  • Remastered audio
  • Digital mockups are not an exact representation of the color

    Description

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    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....

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    Preview Tracklist

    • 1 I Say Who - Tomoko Soryo
    • 2 Kusuri Wo Takusan - Taeko Ohnuki
    • 3 Midnight Driver - Minako Yoshida
    • 4 Subterranean Futari Bocci - Nanako Sato
    • 5 Sports Men - Haruomi Hosono
    • 6 Coffee Rumba - Izumi Kobayashi
    • 7 In My Jungle - F.O.E.
    • 8 Sun Bathing - Akira Inoue, Hiroshi Sato, Masataka Matsutoya
    • 9 Say Goodbye - Hiroshi Satoh
    • 10 Drip Dry Eyes - Yukihiro Takahashi
    • 11 Bamboo Vendor - Masayoshi Takanaka
    • 12 Lady Pink Panther - Shigeru Suzuki
    • 13 Bride of Mykonos - Haruomi Hosono, Takahiko Ishikawa, Masataka Matsutoya
    • 14 L.A. Night - Yasuko Agawa
    • 15 Exotic Yokogao - Hitomi Tohyama
    • 16 Machibouke - Tazumi Toyoshima