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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 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.
Nov 6, 2014 · The Roots of Shibuya-Kei. “Shibuya in the ’90s is just like Haight-Ashbury in the ’60s,” said Pizzicato Five leader Yasuharu Konishi, describing the Tokyo shopping district while donning a kilt during a 1996 interview. “The young people there are always thinking about how to be cool.”. Self-consciously trendy in the extreme, these ...
Oct 17, 2014 · Although largely faded into tragic obscurity by now, the Shibuya-kei (渋谷系, literally “Shibuya style”) boom of the late 1980s and early 1990s was, in its time, a joyful explosion of all that was good in the world. The jet-setting young socialites at the forefront of the movement had weathered the collapse of Japan’s economic bubble with their spirits unbowed, making music (and art ...
Apr 13, 2011 · Shibuya-kei influenced band The Aprils played Meltdown Comics in L.A.; Credit: Shannon Cottrell. Japanese Indie Pop: The Beginner's Guide to Shibuya-Kei. Liz Ohanesian April 13, 2011. In our ...
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.
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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.
