Music
We cannot deny the total transformation immediately of Japanese popular music after the war. Being heavily influenced by the USA from the airwaves or directly from those in military bases. Japanese popular music has had many faces and styles over the decades, from Japanese Rock from the 60s and 70s, City-pop in the 80s and the rise of J-pop in the 90s.
Top 5 Enka Songs
We're big fans of Japanese music as you may have noticed. At Nakama, we've promoted Japanese Ongaku Yoru in London and always swap tracks with each other on new finds...
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Vaporwave: The Definitive Video Games
The vaporwave experience is interactive as well as audio-visual. Many games have been claimed by the vaporwave dynasty as...
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3 Relaxing Albums by Japanese Composers
One of the things that makes these soul-clearing albums so special is their ability to invoke a massive range...
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Vaporwave: More than a Micro-Genre
Squeeze the play button on your cassette player and let the beats start flowing; vaporwave is the retro glamour...
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UMMMI Interview: Avant-Garde Cinema, Audience Freedom & Tokyo’s Best Nightclubs
Inside the belly of Pirate Studios in Bristol, I connect to the Wi-Fi and let UMMMI know that I’m...
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Haruomi Hosono at the Barbican
Last Saturday, five decades into his musical career, the legendary Haruomi Hosono played his solo work for the first...
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Ongaku Yoru at Matilda’s Sake Bar
Bubbly music jiggled the floorboards of Matilda’s Sake Bar, which was...
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Japanoise: The Originators and Innovators
Noise takes it further than any other genre. Rhythm, melody, lyrics, standard instruments: all forgotten. For many, the...
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Más Hangok Interview
Along the noisy London Road in Brighton, a couple of doors away from Dominoes Pizza, I walked into the...
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