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Mar 31, 2020 · The first major Shibuya-kei records can be traced back to the late ‘80s with releases such as Pizzicato Five’s Pizzicatomania (1987) and Bellissima! (1988). While the best Pizzicato Five records would come a few years later, their peers in the innovation of Shibuya-kei, Flipper’s Guitar, released the genre’s most consequential early works.
Dec 27, 2022 · The makers of Shibuya-kei were a group of young artists who were incredibly popular among the Tokyo indie scene and, at first, absolutely nowhere else. Eventually, they became the first underground Japanese groups to receive international attention, being released on notable Western indie labels and retaining cultural resonance with avant-garde artists across the world to this day.
- Adam Light
Shibuya-kei. Shibuya-kei (Japanese: 渋谷系, lit. "Shibuya style") is a microgenre [ 7 ] of pop music [ 1 ] or a general aesthetic [ 8 ] that flourished in Japan in the mid-to-late 1990s. [ 3 ] The music genre is distinguished by a "cut-and-paste" approach that was inspired by the kitsch, fusion, and artifice from certain music styles of the ...
Mar 19, 2022 · It is 1993 and Shibuya is the epicenter of Japanese pop music. Artists like Pizzicato Five, Cornelius, and United Future Organization are part of a new musical movement post-Yellow Magic Orchestra and "City Pop". A movement that will represent the country for the last years of the millennium. This new movement came to be known as Shibuya-kei.
Feb 6, 2013 · This paper focuses on Shibuya-kei, a style of independent popular music that emerged in Japan in the late 1980s and which has been influential in the popularisation of J-pop worldwide.
- Martin Roberts
- 2013
Here is a timeline of Shibuya-kei’s rise and fall told through seven of its most influential albums. Doctor Head’s World Tower by Flipper’s Guitar (1991) The same year that the term Shibuya ...
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Shibuya-kei (Japanese: 渋谷系, lit. “Shibuya style”) is a microgenre of pop music or a general aesthetic that flourished in Japan in the mid-to late 1990s. The music genre is distinguished by a “cut-and-paste” approach that was inspired by the kitsch, fusion, and artifice from certain music styles of the past.
