Contents:

Showa Era Diva

Pure music film soundtrack

Japanese pop

Japanese folk songs< /p>

Urban Pop

Vaporwave Lo-Fi

Jazz Rap

Dream Pop

Post-rock< /p>

1. Showa Era Diva

It’s Hard to Break a Ship? - Akina Nakamori - Song Collection

Natsuse Pianxiang? - Momoko Kikuchi - MOMOKO SINGLES 1986

In your eyes ? - Nakahara めいこ - Happy birthday, Love for you

The Showa era refers specifically to the period after the 1950s when everyone in Japan invested in restoring the national economy and achieved great success, getting rid of militarism. Not considering national defense and military affairs simply brings about an open and inclusive atmosphere in society and culture.

At that time, the entire Japanese society was prosperous and full of vitality, giving people a sense of strength. European and American cultural trends once again had a great impact on Japan. The awakening of self-awareness, the call for change and the pursuit of democracy were spread vigorously along with the student movement.

An era in which humanistic trends of thought collide, splice, and innovate will surely be the era in which masters are most likely to emerge.

During the Showa era, literature, movies, comics, games, music... Japan was at the forefront of the world in all fields of modern art. Its citizens were self-confident and had a healthy and noble aesthetic.

All of this is due to the signing of the Plaza Accord, the economic crisis of the 1990s, and the economic malaise that continues to this day. There is no going back, so the Japanese will miss the Showa era.

The Japanese music scene in the last decade of the Showa era - the era of diva competition

The 1980s coincided with the heyday of Japan's economy and was also the period when Japanese culture entered the world after the war. In the main stage, under the tone of fully absorbing Western music elements, electronic music with ethnic singing elements was integrated to form a mature J-POP, sweeping across Asia. Its leaders are all idol girls with fluffy permed short hair and bright eyes.

If the Yamaguchi Momoe trend in the 1970s reflected the return of traditional Japanese music, the following 1980s belonged to another era, the Japanese music scene in the last decade of the Showa era. It has completely entered the Warring States Period where various girl idols compete for melee.

Asia’s first ever-changing diva—Akina Nakamori

The last miracle in the history of Japanese idols—Shizuka Kudo

The topical idol queen—Matsuda Sei

The leisurely galloping bard girl——Ogawa Noriko

The last singer of the Showa era——Sakai Noriko

The four-day idol queen——Asaka Yui Momoko Kikuchi, Yoko Minamino, Miho Nakayama

The clear oriole—Nahoko Kawai

Sing and act well—Kyoko Koizumi

Japanese Madonna—Honda Minako

The Venus Goddess of the 1980s - Saki Kubota

The Pearl of Kanagawa - Yuki Saito

The Three Kadokawa Girls - —Yakushimaru Hiroko Harada Tomoyo Watanabe Noriko

82 Flower Group—Matsumoto Iyohori Chieme Ishikawa Hidemei Hayami Yu

The number one erotic singer—Kamen Asami< /p>

2. Pure music film soundtrack

Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence Main Theme?- Ryuichi Sakamoto - Music For Film

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The Rain ? - Joe Hisaishi - "Summer of Kikujiro" オリジナル?サウンドトラック

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Palace Memories ?- S.E.N.S. - Palace Sketch NHK Special Kokyu Original Soundtrack II

Song Dynasty?- Kitaro- 1990-2000 Collection

流れ行く云?- Kishibe Masaaki- Miracleの Mountain

Ryuichi Sakamoto | Kitaro | Hiroyuki Sawano | Joe Hisaishi | Shinaki Kishibe | Tenmon | S.E.N.S...

They gave the movie life with musical notes

In 1924, Yamada Kosaki, the founder of the Nippon Symphony Orchestra, composed the soundtrack for the first time for a movie called "Reirakudo". Since then, Japanese movies began to have soundtracks.

By 1952, Japan ended its seven-year cultural review period after the war, and artists ushered in a long-lost era of free creation. Japanese filmmakers who had been dormant for a long time returned to the stage one after another, and Japanese directors such as Akira Kurosawa and Kenji Mizoguchi soon appeared at international film festivals.

Film companies such as Toei, Toho, and Shochiku have made efforts. The 1954 movie "Godzilla" was a huge success, and the Japanese film industry was like the "Godzilla" beast, rolling up a huge wave in small Japan. The number of domestic moviegoers and movie box office set new records every year. In addition, Japanese films were frequently selected as masterpieces at the Venice Film Festival. The domestic and international successes all announced to everyone that the "second golden age" of Japanese films has officially arrived. .

Godzilla, Zatoichi, Akira Kurosawa, Taiga Drama, Osamu Tezuka...behind these three icons of the era that were born in Japan's second golden age and the most shining of Japanese culture are three Self-taught pioneers: Akira Ifukube (1914-2006), Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996), Isao Tomita (1932-2016).

Isao Tomita, Toru Takemitsu, Akira Ifukube, and many other composers of the same period supported Japan's postwar recovery of the modern music scene. Their works have been recognized internationally one after another, and they have successfully internationalized Japanese song culture and musical instruments (such as Shakuhachi, Japanese pipa, etc.). With the power of their generation alone, they have shortened the gap between Japanese serious music and Western serious music. The distance is admirable. Their music and melodies, together with the images and stories of that era, have provided spiritual support to countless Japanese people and used music to tell their own stories as a nation, which is great.

Hisaishi Joe, Kitaro, Sakamoto Ryuichi, Hosono Haruomi...these composer masters who have touched countless people have stepped on the foundation stone, including the shock Isao Tomita felt at the Temple of Heaven Echo Gallery when he was a child, and Ifukube The doubts and ridicule that Akira received when he submitted his work to the competition, the tears of reluctance that Toru Takemitsu shed silently in the theater, and the sweat and figures of that generation of people who worked hard and pursued advanced culture alone.

3. Japanese pop

ラブ?ストーリーは suddenly に? - Oda Kazumasa- Oh! Yeah! は?- オフコース- OFF COURSE Singles (3CD)

Consciousness ~ Singing in the storm circle of the greatest level after the war ~ Shiina Ringo - Stem (STEM) ~ Daimyo Yuro edition ~

Wakaき Japanese POP? - Taeko Ohnuki - Library

J-POP, Japanese POP (Japanese pop music). The name was coined in 1988 by J-WAVE, a Japanese radio station, and once used it to represent "new music". It has since been widely used in Japan to refer to modern music influenced by Western influences, including pop music, R&B , rock, dance, hip-hop and soul music.

I secretly believe that Japan is the third largest pop music country after the United States and Britain, surpassing Germany and Brazil in terms of status. Japanese pop music began to flourish in the 1960s. Ever since Yuzo Kayama introduced the Beatles to Japan, Japan is still the country that interacts most frequently with Western pop music.

Influenced by Western rock music, Japan is the best Asian country to practice "band music". From the early days of Southern Stars led by Kaisuke Kuwata, YMO led by Ryuichi Sakamoto, Happy End led by Eiichi Ohtaki, to X-Japan led by Yoshoki, and Tokyo Incident led by Ringo Shiina, Japan has always been a paradise for bands. .

Secondly, Japan is also a paradise for female poisoners. From Yumi Matsutoya and Miyuki Nakajima to Hikari Utada and Ayumi Hamasaki, the artistic atmosphere in the bones of Japanese women is fascinating.

Thirdly, Japan is rich in experimental music, and Deep Music fans can always find suitable "noise" here. Keiji Haino, The Human Chair, and Four-person Group are irresistible to every Deep Music fan. sound.

4. Japanese Folk Songs

Imagination into the Wind?つじあやの

Asahi no Uta? - Tejima Aoi - さよならの夏～コクリコ坂から～

Japanese writer Natsume Soseki asked his students how to translate "I love you", and the students translated it as "I love you" . Natsume Soseki said: "How could the Japanese say such a thing? 'The moonlight is very beautiful tonight' is enough."

The first time I heard such an expression was in the autumn of last year, I immediately felt The softness and warmth of Japanese language almost healed my whole body. As for Japanese folk songs, many lyrics are also fresh and natural: one part simple, one part plain, and eight parts ordinary.

5. Urban Pop

Glass boy? - Yamashita Tatsuro - OPUS ~ ALL TIME BEST 1975-2012 ~

パッション? Furuta Haruomi Hosono - PACIFIC

君たちキウイ?パパイア?マンゴーだね. Nakahara めいこ - Song Collection

City Pop is a music genre with a relaxed and soft texture. The main components are Smooth Jazz and AOR, with elements such as Jazz Fusion, Jazz Funk and Boogie mixed in. As a genre that exists as a "mood" or "lifestyle", City Pop has the color of Japan's bubble economy era in the last century. Therefore, it attracted a large number of loyal fans in Japan and even overseas in the 1980s. . Thematically speaking, City Pop shows Japan’s luxurious and exquisite urban life under the bubble economy.

Since the 1980s, a large number of excellent City Pop musicians have emerged. For example, Yamashita Tatsuro, Ohtaki Eiichi, Hamada Kingo, Abe Kyouhiro, Sugi Mari, Yamamoto Tatsuhisa, Inagaki Junichi, Kakumatsu Toshio, Oda Kazumasa and so on.

We are now experiencing an era of urbanization, and today’s young people are obsessed with these romantic music from the end of the last century. The catchy melody and the positive hedonism promoted by citypop fit perfectly with the psychology of young people who have just entered society and are at the juncture of adults. Popular music styles are inseparable from the era they belong to. Love songs are often popular in times of economic prosperity. In addition, our generation has mostly single children and pays more attention to individual love, so we can still feel the charm of city pop.

In addition, among the vaporwaves that use a lot of sampled music, city pop is also deeply loved by musicians born in the 1990s. Through secondary creation, the music passages are processed with speed changes and distortion to sound hazy and carefree. lazy. For us living in the post-citypop era, vaporwave is more like yearning for a surreal dream in the past.

6. Vapor Wave Low Fidelity

So Cute ?- Lopu$ - So Cute

Super Time GROOVE (SeptemberDelta) ?- ミカヅキBIGWAVE - SCSinglesVol. 2

Aruarian Dance ?- Nujabes - Samurai Champloo Music Record - Departure

so far away ?- elijah who - New Feelings

Vaporwave is A musical genre and artistic movement.

In the early 2010s there were some indie dances, such as seapunk, bounce house, or chillwave, and more broadly, electronic dance music. This found a nest for Vaporwave. Vaporwave emerged in the early 2010s and almost reached its heyday from 2014 to 2015. Music creation and artistic works related to vaporwave began to emerge, and now it has spawned a series of sub-cultures and peripheral products. While there is a lot of variety and ambiguity in the sub-genres and messages conveyed, vaporwave sometimes serves as both a critique and satire of post-industrial consumerist society, 1980s yuppie culture, and new age music, but at the same time has a lo-fi sound quality. and Album Art showcase nostalgic artifacts of curiosity and fascination.

Vaporwave is a music genre and art movement that emerged in the early 2010s from some indie dance, such as seapunk, bounce house, or chillwave, and more broadly, electronic dance music.

Although there is a lot of variety and ambiguity in the sub-genre categories and messages conveyed, vaporwave sometimes both criticizes and satirizes post-industrial consumerist society, 1980s yuppie culture, and new age music, But at the same time that low-fidelity (LO-FI) sound quality and Album Art showcase nostalgic artifacts of curiosity and fascination.

Compared with some similar styles that were more popular in vaporwave in the past few years, such as hypnagogic pop, hypnagogic pop is a kind of pop that "let me take a time machine back to my childhood, watching American cartoons, holding Playing with toys and shrimp crackers, a drowsy, half-dream and half-awake state" and "making the sound distant and trance-like. This comes from the memory of the sounds of disco, movies and other sounds vaguely coming from outside the room when the post-80s generation was young. , an endless childhood memory of a young creator. "If hypnagogic pop creates a utopian aura, it uses noise and disco sampling to create a mixture of sounds, nostalgia, and the hippie temperament from Los Angeles. .

Then Vaporwave is a pure 1995 Japanese cyberpunk dystopian style, a completely imaginary pop music like another parallel world.

7. Jazz rap

sanctuary ship ?- Nujabes - samurai champloo music record impression

カノン?- DJ OKAWARI - 心花~cohana oriental classics

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Summer Love?- Otokaze - OTOKAZE

My Soul?- July - Beyond the Memory

The origin of Jazz Hip Hop can be traced back to the 1920s Jazz, then influenced by Bop and Jazz Funk in the 1950s, Jazz Fusion in the 1970s, and Hip Hop in the 1980s, Jazz Hip Hop— — or Jazz-rap — as a genre finally emerged in the mid-1980s, marked by Cargo's 1985 album "Jazz Rap, Volume One" and Stetsasonic's 1988 single "Talkin' All That" Jazz".

What really promoted the development of Jazz Hip Hop was the album "The Low End Theory" released in 1991 by East Coast rap legend A Tribe Called Quest and the album "Doo" released in 1992 by jazz master Miles Davis. -Bop", especially the former: RIAA certified platinum record, ranked 154th on Rolling Stone magazine's Top 500 Albums of All Time, and was selected into Time Magazine's Top 100 Albums of All Time. The instrumental performance of these two records belongs to Jazz, but Beats has a Hip Hop style, and the singing method is also Rap. At the same time, a large number of jazz artists and Eastcoast Hiphop singers also tried Jazz Hip Hop music, such as Herbie Hancock, Digable Planets, Us3, Naughty by Nature, De La Soul, Camp Lo and even the famous "street poet" Nas, etc. Therefore, the development of Jazz Hip Hop finally got on the right track in the mid-1990s. The representative records of this period were "Hand on the Torch", "Illmatic", and "Uptown Saturday Night". As the millennium passed, many musicians deeply influenced by Jazzhiphop became active, such as J. Rawls, Nujabes, Fat Jon, Madlib, Kero One, Kondori, etc.

Here I would like to mention Nujabes, a Japanese musician who spread Jazzhiphop to the East. Together with DJ Okawari and other Japanese Hiphoppers, they had a profound impact on Underground Hiphop in Japan and China. His representative records are Modal Soul. Today in the 2010s, the story of Jazzhiphop continues.

8. Dream Pop

Night Time ?- The fin. - Days With Uncertainty (+Bonus)

Episode 33 ?- She Her Her Hers - location

Dream Pop, as the name suggests, is "dream-like pop music."

Dream Pop is a type of Pop Music that emerged in England in the mid-1980s. In addition to focusing on beautiful melodies, it also attaches great importance to creating an ethereal atmosphere. The musicians strive to use Synthesizers (electronic synthesizers) and electric guitars to create an ethereal atmosphere. A kind of confusing sound texture is concocted. Most of the music parts have a superimposed feeling, and the singer's voice is often added with echo to enhance the illusory feeling. The lyrics are often written in an abstract and poetic way. When you feel that the world is a mess and turbid, and you need music to anesthetize and filter it, the void and pure sound of Dream Pop can turn your mood back to blue again.

In China, there are also artists with this style. In 1998, Faye Wong did a lot of aura processing to create a dreamy and ethereal realm. This is inseparable from Faye Wong's appreciation of Cocteau Twins and her cooperation with them in 1996's "Impetuous". , and "Singing Tour" also won the top ten Dream Pop albums in the world.

9. After a few shakes

Ashes in the Snow?- MONO - Hymn to the Immortal Wind (Anniversary Edition)

何らのkuしみにもあわ ずして、何人をもhappyとは『HU』ぶなかれ. ? - TE - それは、声り声く世界から见実的な音を「歌」おうとするThinking.

Past And Language ?- Toe - RGBDVD

silent roar ?- Euphoria - サイレントロアー

A rock music group that emerged in the 1990s and was deeply influenced by electroacoustic instrumental music In the experimental rock movement, post-rock is undoubtedly the dominant music genre. Post-rock music combines a large number of experimental genres - Krauft-Rock, Ambient, Progressive Rock, Space Rock, Math Rock, Tape Music, Minimalist Classical, British IDM, Jazz ( both Avant-Garde and Cool), and Dub Reggae, in a nutshell: the music is mostly structured on rock music, but it is not rock music in essence.

The musical experience that post-rock gives the listener is completely opposite to the emotional stimulation of rock music in the traditional sense. Its music is hypnotic and has a low and monotonous sound (especially seen in some guitar-based bands) ), even relatively bright music can make people feel calm and awake. The reason for this is that post-rock was originally a response against rock, especially when the mainstream music industry assimilated alternative music. Many post-rock bands were established under the same consciousness, which is : Rock music has lost its true sense of rebellion and is struggling to extricate itself from its own hole of old patterns and empty gestures. So post-rock rejects everything related to traditional rock music.

Post-rock music focuses more on pure sound and timbre than on melody and song structure. Most of its works tend to be instrumental music. Even if there are voices in the works, it is only as an overall musical effect. A kind of accessory.

Math-rock is an experimental rock style that sprouted in the United States in the late 1980s.

Most of the math rock genres are a mixture of noise rock, post rock, progressive rock, minimal music, electronic music, etc.

One of its characteristics is the complex arrangement, often using irregular pauses or starts, odd time signatures, angular melody, counterpoint, extended chords, irregular Dissonant chords, atypical Chord progression. Generally, rock music uses 4/4 as its song structure, while math rock frequently uses asymmetrical beats, such as 7/8, 11/8, 13/8, and alternate beats in the song, such as a short section of 9 /8 beat, converted to 8/8 beat, and then converted to 6/8 beat, giving the audience a weird feeling of wrong touch. For another example, drums in 3/4 time, guitar in 4/4 time, and bass guitar in 3/4 time are used in the same piece of music, but each instrument is cleverly "matched" on different tracks, and it sounds like It is smooth and does not bother the ears. It is called "math rock" because of its complex structures such as mathematical operations.

Math Rock is somewhat related to Post Rock, and it is better known as Indie-Rock style. It has a similar musical orientation to Indie-Rock. Where post-rock has obvious jazz influences, math rock is like the other side of the same coin - its music is thick and complex, full of difficult time signatures and tangled passages. Moreover, this kind of music is more rock than post-rock, because it is usually performed by small bands with guitars as the main instrument. Math rock reached its peak in the mid-1990s, when bands like Polvo and Chavez had a small following dedicated to the music among indie rockers on college campuses.

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