The perfect meeting point that would help create a new soundtrack for modern living.“ It was a moment when brand-new music tech from Japan helped forge new ideas and experiments that permeated pop, soul and jazz and helped create new forms of music including electro and techno. Compiled by the very sharp Nick Luscombe, who you may know from his past broadcasting work with the BBC, Monocle, British Airways, and his DJ sets, the sixteen track collection draws from cult names such as Ryuichi Sakamoto, Mariah, Hitomi "Penny" Tohyama, Coloured Music, Yasuaki Shimizu and Shigeo Sekito amongst others.Īccording to Nick, “Tokyo Dreaming is a look back to an incredible era of Japanese music, that still sounds and feels like the future. On the 27th of November 2020, the excellent Paris-based WEWANTSOUNDS label is releasing "Tokyo Dreaming", a new double LP compilation of Japanese city pop, techno pop, synth funk, electro and ambient songs, originally recorded for the Nippon Columbia label and its Better Days sub-label in the late '70s and '80s.
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