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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 past. [9]
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Mar 31, 2020 · By Ed Cunningham. March 31, 2020 Updated On April 8, 2022. In the relatively short amount of time between Shibuya-kei’s beginning and end (that is, from the early Nineties to around the turn of the century), it was never quite captured by any clear boundaries or precise definition.
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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.
Dec 29, 2018 · Named after a small burrow of Tokyo, the Shibuya district (the name literally means “Shibuya-style”) where the genre had started, Shibuya-kei initially fused French ye-ye, jazz, bossa nova, lounge music, funk, and 60's psychedelic pop into a futuristic retro-pastiche.
Nov 6, 2014 · Self-consciously trendy in the extreme, these bold and brightly fashioned kids were the ’90s Japanese forerunner of today’s hipster. The largely independent bands and singers these trendsetters favored soon found themselves grouped in a genre known as “Shibuya-kei” – literally translated as Shibuya style.
Apr 13, 2011 · Released on Matador Records, Made in USA is a compilation of Pizzicato 5 tracks that had been previously released in Japan. It essentially serves as a full-length introduction to the band. Songs ...
Nov 15, 2004 · Shibuya-kei was often called “Japanese yogaku” — Western music created by Japanese artists. The music itself, however, was often less important than the total aesthetic impact. Shibuya-kei was ultimately an attempt to create a Japanese analog to the indie music cultures that had developed in the U.S. and U.K., but the Japanese artists ...
