Various Artists - Pacific Breeze: Japanese City Pop, AOR & Boogie 1976-1986

SK Says: 'Light In The Attic's essential primer for the smooth melange of jazz, R&B and synth that makes up the City Pop sound- Japan's answer to the West's airwave-ruling yacht rock and adult contemporary movements. Essential summer listening featuring YMO's Haruomi Hosono and a host of household names in Japanunlikely to be familiar to anyone further ashore.'

Pacific Breezedocuments Japans blast into the stratosphere. By the 1960s, the nation had achieved a postwar miracle, soaring to become the worlds second largest economy. Thriving tech exports sent The Rising Sun over the moon. Its pocket cassette players, bleeping video games, and gleaming cars boomed worldwide, wooing pleasure points and pumping Japanese pockets full of yen.

Japans financial buoyancy also permeated its popular culture, birthing an audio analog called City Pop. This new sound arose in the mid 70s and ruled through the