Yo, thanks for introducing this/him to us. Ever notice, how the guitar-solo from "52nd Street" around 9:00 minutes of this video is the same, that TWRP (Tupperware Remix Pary) uses and expands upon for their song "Body Image"? (At circa 1:40 min:) ua-cam.com/video/GK2aXhG3iqk/v-deo.html The absolute Legends.
Just finished watching your Casiopea video and now I’m watching this one. While I’m already well-versed in the world of city pop/jazz fusion I still found your videos very enjoyable, it’s great knowing there’s others out there that appreciate these old Japanese tracks as much as I do. Great work too, your video essays are extremely well made
Toshiki Kadomatsu I think is the best Japanese City Pop/Jazz Fusion artist out there. He is definitely out there in my top artists (I mean look at my PFP lol). His style of music has definitely influenced me the best right now because, other than any other artists, his songs hit my nostalgia harder than others. Guitars, horns, synth, drums, bass, and back up singers just blend perfectly with him.
@@creativepop8196 This man is a timeless legend and he has truly revolutionised music. 80s Japan was a truly amazing time, now Japan is not the same.😢😢😢
Man my Brother and i found our passion for Asian Jazz Fusion Music few years ago and he showed me your channel, its a blast! I love to learn something about the history of these musicians! For some time we thought nobody else would listen to this kind of music anymore 😂 we couldnt imagine how wrong we were 😂😂😂😂
For me, Toshiki Kadomatsu is THE quintessential 80's city pop artist. His own work is legendary, and he produced some of Anri's best works as well as many others. His go-to bassist Tomohito Aoki (RIP) was a legend in his own right as well, often driving Kadomatsu's songs through the 80's and on. Truly legendary music that hits like nothing else. NOW HE JUST NEEDS TO RELEASE HIS ENTIRE LIBRARY ON STREAMING PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE IM TIRED OF LISTING TO RIPS ON UA-cam
Superb documentary! I've been doing the same thing for the last 4 years, I started listening to future Funk and vaporwave and then got into a whole genre of Japanese city pop as well as Japanese artists such as Ryuchi Sakamoto
if you like Toshiki Kadomatsu and anime I highly recommend the 42 minute OVA film "Nineteen 19" which uses several of Toshiki Kadomatsu's songs including "LOVIN' You 'Sawako'" and encapsulates the bubble era and all its glory
It the perfect music for my neon high rise apartment overlooking palm trees or driving my Japanese station wagon around the beaches in south Florida. I swear I seen most of the albums pictures in person here. It oddly fits and it amazing music from across the world can remind me of home.
Came here after watching your outstanding Casiopea video twice. Kadomatsu-san is the city pop G.O.A.T., IMO. His producer credits alone are staggering. Amazing artist - always dynamic, exciting, playful, sophisticated and with the highest level of musicianship. Thank you so much for what you do 🙏
I'm just getting into the worlds of city pop and jazz fusion, and your videos have been an excellent education into what may be my new favorite music genres.
UA-cam algorithms threw your Casiopea video at my face. Now I'm here) Thank you for this hidden gems! Also: great video quality with all this charts, chapters and very nice animations!
Great video, great editing, great everything ! i was waiting for someone to cover this topic and i finally stumbled up on your video. good luck with the rest of the episodes.
Man I wish I could post in the r/music or something. This video was so well made it really does deserve to be shown to even more people. I’ve found my love for City Pop because of you. Keep up the hard work Norway!
Another lovely music doc video I’ve been trying hard to learn more about my favorite Japanese bands and musicians. It is hard researching sometimes not knowing the language they are hidden gems. You cover them so well I’m so intrigued with your style of Videos thank you for doing your thing. I haven’t seen too much on the duo city pop band Bread and Butter. I found out about them through tatsuro yamashita’s cover of pink shadow and ever since then I’ve been obsessed with them! This never ending finding of older musicians had changed the music game for me.
Thank you so much for your kind comments on my videos! I've heard a little bit of Bread and Butter, they're pretty good! There are so many artists and band to make videos of, but it's very time consuming (+ no ad revenue due to copyright claims). I don't know when the next video will come out, but I'm very keen on making more of these! Tatsuro Yamashita would be a great video, although I'm scared it might be taken down, haha. He's very strict with copyright infringement. Thanks again and I hope you stick around for future videos!
It's so weird to see Japanese City pop kind of explode in the last few years, as someone who basically got into the stuff over a decade ago (because I love 80s and 90s anime, and the soundtracks basically revolved around this sort of sound). I remember posting songs on facebook at that time, and getting ignored, but now when I share a city pop song on youtube, I get people actually commenting ... so weird. Makes me wonder if people did actually like this music, but were too embarrassed to admit it because the music wasn't popular back then ... hmmm
Discovering this genre during the COVID era video by video, note by note made me a huge fan and a collector. Toshiki was my love right from the start. My all time favorite of his is "Night sight of Port Island" especially the finale. Thank you for these great videos!
I discovered this channel recently with your video about Takanaka (found All of me in recommendations and wanted to know more about the big guitar guy) and this is amazing The edition is always on point and 8:38 this transition was the smoothest.... It doesn't matter if we get 1 video per year, it's worth it!!
Well done T2norway. I have been a big Casiopea fan since the first 1980 and I was only 17 year old..!! And still playing Casiopea today along with the Fusion greats. Even UK home grown talent..!! from the 70's and 80's including Phil Collins BrandX.
i came from your masayoshi takanaka video and i just wanted to thank you for introducing me to so many new songs :D i originally thought toshiki's fly by day was a cover of anri's version of fly by day from her heaven beach album but i had no idea he helped produce it once again thank you for teaching me so many new things about all these amazing genres :D
Hey, i'm a little late to your channel. But your intro to this video basically sums up how i got to know City pop as well. Going to check out your other episodes later. Cheers!
Japan in the 80s had an INSANE culture blast coming from a rainbow godzilla shooting laser beams from it’s eyes directly into a dancing tsunami monster that refracts all around the center of Japan. It’s truly a wonderful experience.
"he also produced for city pop legend Anri, and you can really hear his touches" first 5 seconds of song go by: this is how all city pop sounds next 5 seconds: holy shit it's kadomatsu 0_0
This is still one of my favorite videos to watch when I'm feelin' like I'm back in the Toshiki Kadomatsu groove. Just noticed that you may of planned Tatsuro for E3? Curious about that, I'm wondering if you scrapped that due to fears of copyright strikes? I've been seeing over the last year what's been going on on UA-cam with his music and that just made me wonder about that.
I always got the vibe 52nd Street was influenced by the song I'm Available by Manchester group 52nd Street. At least the first half of the song has a lot of rhythmic similarities.
My favorite City Pop artist, wish there were more of his early live performances on youtube, check out Yokohama Twilight Time live @ Rolling Pops if you haven't already
Episode two is out now! ua-cam.com/video/RVzld8ES9hQ/v-deo.html
Yo, thanks for introducing this/him to us.
Ever notice, how the guitar-solo from "52nd Street" around 9:00 minutes of this video is the same, that TWRP (Tupperware Remix Pary) uses and expands upon for their song "Body Image"?
(At circa 1:40 min:)
ua-cam.com/video/GK2aXhG3iqk/v-deo.html
The absolute Legends.
Toshiki Kadomatsu is one of my all-time favorite artists. Absolute legend.
Just finished watching your Casiopea video and now I’m watching this one. While I’m already well-versed in the world of city pop/jazz fusion I still found your videos very enjoyable, it’s great knowing there’s others out there that appreciate these old Japanese tracks as much as I do. Great work too, your video essays are extremely well made
I just finished the masayoshi video and now i'm watching both! This is too good!!
@@Dindonmasker This man is a timeless legend and he has truly revolutionised music. 80s Japan was a truly amazing time, now Japan is not the same.
Toshiki Kadomatsu I think is the best Japanese City Pop/Jazz Fusion artist out there. He is definitely out there in my top artists (I mean look at my PFP lol). His style of music has definitely influenced me the best right now because, other than any other artists, his songs hit my nostalgia harder than others. Guitars, horns, synth, drums, bass, and back up singers just blend perfectly with him.
My favorite song of his if u guys wanna ask is definitely Office Lady
@@creativepop8196 This man is a timeless legend and he has truly revolutionised music. 80s Japan was a truly amazing time, now Japan is not the same.😢😢😢
@@creativepop8196 i love all of them
The 2017 re-release of Sea Is A Lady is truly an amazing album for driving. It hasn't left my car's CD bay since I got it!
Man my Brother and i found our passion for Asian Jazz Fusion Music few years ago and he showed me your channel, its a blast! I love to learn something about the history of these musicians!
For some time we thought nobody else would listen to this kind of music anymore 😂 we couldnt imagine how wrong we were 😂😂😂😂
For me, Toshiki Kadomatsu is THE quintessential 80's city pop artist. His own work is legendary, and he produced some of Anri's best works as well as many others. His go-to bassist Tomohito Aoki (RIP) was a legend in his own right as well, often driving Kadomatsu's songs through the 80's and on. Truly legendary music that hits like nothing else.
NOW HE JUST NEEDS TO RELEASE HIS ENTIRE LIBRARY ON STREAMING PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE IM TIRED OF LISTING TO RIPS ON UA-cam
This video means a lot for city pop fans around the world! Thank you so much.. thanks for the appreciation to the artist..
I'm a huuge fan of Anri. Timely is INCREDIBLE. Now knowing Kadomatsu played a big part in the album, I need to check out more of his stuff.
Superb documentary! I've been doing the same thing for the last 4 years, I started listening to future Funk and vaporwave and then got into a whole genre of Japanese city pop as well as Japanese artists such as Ryuchi Sakamoto
This man is a timeless legend and he has truly revolutionised music. 80s Japan was a truly amazing time, now Japan is not the same.
Plastic Love change my life since february 2021!
Toshiki Kadomatsu saved my life.
if you like Toshiki Kadomatsu and anime I highly recommend the 42 minute OVA film "Nineteen 19" which uses several of Toshiki Kadomatsu's songs including "LOVIN' You 'Sawako'" and encapsulates the bubble era and all its glory
thanks for the recommendation! ˙ ͜ʟ˙
It the perfect music for my neon high rise apartment overlooking palm trees or driving my Japanese station wagon around the beaches in south Florida. I swear I seen most of the albums pictures in person here. It oddly fits and it amazing music from across the world can remind me of home.
Can't wait for the Anri video. You have great production quality!
I love the work he did on every artist he produced, but Jadoes are really underrated!
Heartbeat City is pretty good, even if the vocals are drowned out.
Came here after watching your outstanding Casiopea video twice.
Kadomatsu-san is the city pop G.O.A.T., IMO. His producer credits alone are staggering. Amazing artist - always dynamic, exciting, playful, sophisticated and with the highest level of musicianship.
Thank you so much for what you do 🙏
Absolutely love this series you're doing
Thank you so much for watching!
This is sooo well made!! Such quality👌
This man is a timeless legend and he has truly revolutionised music. 80s Japan was a truly amazing time, now Japan is not the same.😢😢
i discovered city pop also because of future funk, its actually my favourite genere of music and love collecting this old vinyls
I'm just getting into the worlds of city pop and jazz fusion, and your videos have been an excellent education into what may be my new favorite music genres.
UA-cam algorithms threw your Casiopea video at my face. Now I'm here) Thank you for this hidden gems! Also: great video quality with all this charts, chapters and very nice animations!
This man is a timeless legend and he has truly revolutionised music. 80s Japan was a truly amazing time, now Japan is not the same.
Simply one of the best music video essays Ive ever seen. So honest, so polished and smooth. !!!
Great video, great editing, great everything !
i was waiting for someone to cover this topic and i finally stumbled up on your video.
good luck with the rest of the episodes.
Man I wish I could post in the r/music or something. This video was so well made it really does deserve to be shown to even more people. I’ve found my love for City Pop because of you. Keep up the hard work Norway!
This is easily one of the most impressive videos I’ve ever seen
Another lovely music doc video I’ve been trying hard to learn more about my favorite Japanese bands and musicians. It is hard researching sometimes not knowing the language they are hidden gems. You cover them so well I’m so intrigued with your style of Videos thank you for doing your thing. I haven’t seen too much on the duo city pop band Bread and Butter. I found out about them through tatsuro yamashita’s cover of pink shadow and ever since then I’ve been obsessed with them! This never ending finding of older musicians had changed the music game for me.
Thank you so much for your kind comments on my videos! I've heard a little bit of Bread and Butter, they're pretty good! There are so many artists and band to make videos of, but it's very time consuming (+ no ad revenue due to copyright claims). I don't know when the next video will come out, but I'm very keen on making more of these! Tatsuro Yamashita would be a great video, although I'm scared it might be taken down, haha. He's very strict with copyright infringement. Thanks again and I hope you stick around for future videos!
@@T2norway This man is a timeless legend and he has truly revolutionised music. 80s Japan was a truly amazing time, now Japan is not the same.😢😢😢
It's so weird to see Japanese City pop kind of explode in the last few years, as someone who basically got into the stuff over a decade ago (because I love 80s and 90s anime, and the soundtracks basically revolved around this sort of sound). I remember posting songs on facebook at that time, and getting ignored, but now when I share a city pop song on youtube, I get people actually commenting ... so weird. Makes me wonder if people did actually like this music, but were too embarrassed to admit it because the music wasn't popular back then ... hmmm
Late 2017, what a thrill listening to my new collections of artist albums I've saved to my phone. What an early two year rush of city pop songs.
This is deserve more views, nice vids!
surprised you aren’t bigger, with high quality stuff like this!!
Discovering this genre during the COVID era video by video, note by note made me a huge fan and a collector. Toshiki was my love right from the start. My all time favorite of his is "Night sight of Port Island" especially the finale. Thank you for these great videos!
Thank you for making this.
Excited for the next episode.
I really liked this video and the music in it. I am exited to see more of this series.
If You Wanna Dance Tonight borrows most of its elements from Feeling Lucky Lately by High Fashion
this man needs more attention ngl
Wow I can't believe I've been missing out on this channel for so long. Your production quality, presentation and research are incredible.
This man is a timeless legend and he has truly revolutionised music. 80s Japan was a truly amazing time, now Japan is not the same.😢😢😢
Great Video! The quality of these essays is outstanding, you truly did a great job
Love seeing seeing my culture impact on spreading joy to the world. Truly awesome.
You did a great job, seriously, there aren't many videos talking about the genre and even less focusing on artists.
I discovered this channel recently with your video about Takanaka (found All of me in recommendations and wanted to know more about the big guitar guy) and this is amazing
The edition is always on point and 8:38 this transition was the smoothest....
It doesn't matter if we get 1 video per year, it's worth it!!
Your channel is seriously underrated. I'm gonna share it everywhere.
Not going to lie, I jammed to Toshiki Kadomatsu's Sealine when traveling down Florida's coastline
Kadomatsu the Legend. My favorite of all time
Never stop making videos!
Really well done, love the editing ☺️
oohh that's why timely is so good.
Good to have you back!
Great videos on a jazzy japanese surfer music. Great coverage of Takanaka lead me to your other videos. You get the vibe and speak my mind
I wish he was on spotify! his music is so dreamy and funky
to me SEA IS A LADY is perfect album 100% no bad or boring songs
Well done T2norway. I have been a big Casiopea fan since the first 1980 and I was only 17 year old..!! And still playing Casiopea today along with the Fusion greats. Even UK home grown talent..!! from the 70's and 80's including Phil Collins BrandX.
Your best video so far! I heard that the japanese island Okinawa has an almost tropical climate, so maybe you can live your dream there someday. :)
I hope you'll make more of this series! It definitely helped me to know informations about them with nice arrangements and great enthusiasm 🤩
Thanks! I'm currently working on a video about Masayoshi Takanaka, which will (hopefully) be out later this month ˙ ͜ʟ˙
@@T2norway Woow! He's one of the artist I'm anticipating for you to make 🤩 That will be great!
It’s thank to UA-cam algorithms that I found your videos
Cool! Very cool! Well done!
Soo cool to find more people enjoying citypop
Same here, I discovered the genre by plastic love here on youtube
hey man we need more of these. please keep going!
i came from your masayoshi takanaka video and i just wanted to thank you for introducing me to so many new songs :D
i originally thought toshiki's fly by day was a cover of anri's version of fly by day from her heaven beach album but i had no idea he helped produce it
once again thank you for teaching me so many new things about all these amazing genres :D
I know about these genre but the quality of this video is amazing. Love it and I hope you keep it! The casiopea video is another piece of art!
far out what a rabbit hole. this is awesome thank you!
Great work, amazing video! "Space Scraper" from "Weekend Fly to the Sun" is one of my favorite songs.
The great algorithm has blessed you! Praise the great algorithm!
Mysterious are his ways!
cant wait to see the next episode!
This is so legit
So glad I was recommended this video. I've recently gotten into City Pop and wanted to learn nore about the people behind them.
Hey, i'm a little late to your channel. But your intro to this video basically sums up how i got to know City pop as well. Going to check out your other episodes later. Cheers!
Japan in the 80s had an INSANE culture blast coming from a rainbow godzilla shooting laser beams from it’s eyes directly into a dancing tsunami monster that refracts all around the center of Japan. It’s truly a wonderful experience.
love Piper. Summer Breeze is my favorite album from them. this genre is just great to spend your summer days, and every day is summer in Miami.
I came from reddit. Worth it :)
that coming up soon in the end took almost 2 years :") but totally worth it! thank you for your videos!
I really thought this video just came out, not three years ago!
great editing and narration! really enjoyed this video!
Just discovered your channel. Pure bliss for ears 👌 thanks
the editing is great on this. great video, also.
THANK YOU so much for this amazing and super well edited/writen series of videos. Cheers from Japan
i found my people
dude, these videos are so well produced! Especially liked 8:33
Toshiki is a genius
"he also produced for city pop legend Anri, and you can really hear his touches"
first 5 seconds of song go by: this is how all city pop sounds
next 5 seconds: holy shit it's kadomatsu 0_0
you need still making this kind of videos.
excellent content and montage ! keep up the good work
Nice vid! Cover Piper too!
This somewhat reminds me about sonic 1 star light zone, and spring yard zone.
This is great!
Good video. Wish you would have mentioned Secret Lover
crazy how this has 58k views lol these videos have literally changed my music taste entirely
Nice!!
This is still one of my favorite videos to watch when I'm feelin' like I'm back in the Toshiki Kadomatsu groove. Just noticed that you may of planned Tatsuro for E3? Curious about that, I'm wondering if you scrapped that due to fears of copyright strikes? I've been seeing over the last year what's been going on on UA-cam with his music and that just made me wonder about that.
You should do a documentary of Funk music and it's subgenres (like these ones) That would be dope.
Do one for Tatsuro Yamashita! My very first introduction to these sub-genres came when For You blessed my youtube feed randomly one day
How this not getting like 20k veiws
GOD DAMN IT HE AINT ON SPOTIFY
que hermosuras de videos mi hermano!
You NEED to make a video bout T-SQUARE!
Ur vids r amazing!!!!
I always got the vibe 52nd Street was influenced by the song I'm Available by Manchester group 52nd Street. At least the first half of the song has a lot of rhythmic similarities.
My favorite City Pop artist, wish there were more of his early live performances on youtube, check out Yokohama Twilight Time live @ Rolling Pops if you haven't already
A song list would be much appreciated from someone who knows so little about the genre!