Tokyo Pulse :: Japanese Funk, Modern Soul and City Pop from The Tokyo Scene 1974-88

The recent algorithmic explosion of Japanese city pop with Haruomi Hosono, Yoshiko Sai, Masayoshi Takanaka, and others didn't even come close to exhausting the otherworldly fertility of the genre. For the new compilation by international reissue label Wewantsounds, Tokyo-based DJ Notoya selected lost, hidden, and obscured city pop tracks, none of which have quite entered the Western market yet . . . The post Tokyo Pulse :: Japanese Funk, Modern Soul and City Pop from The Tokyo Scene 1974-88 first appeared on Aquarium Drunkard.