Modcast #253: East Meets West With the Shibuya-Kei Soul Sound

East meets west with Shibuya-kei taking center stage in the mod
world this week. Shibuya-kei was a 1990s music movement that wasn't
about Tokyo's ultra-trendy and fashionable Shibuya district as it
was about a rather lucky gathering of Japanese musicians who mixed
bossa nova, soul, funk, jazz, techno and synthpop into a
retro-futrist sound that was redundant yet fresh.

Shibuya-kei's most prominent artists -- Flipper's Guitar, Pizzicato
5, Love Tamborines, Kahimi Karie, Fantastic Plastic Machine and
others -- mixed together everything from sixties pop and motown, to
acid jazz, krautrock, French ye-ye and twee. The result was
something like if Sergio Mendes and Burt Bacharach had a Japanese
love child.

So this week I'm exploring the soul and style of Shibuya-kei and
also exploring a few of the scenes influences, as well as some of
it's offspring and distant cousins.

Be sure to head over to the modcast homepage at
http://www.mistersuave.com/2012/12/modcast-253-east-meets-west-with.html
for a complete track list, links to band sites, and some really
cool Shibuya related videos.

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