Happy Monday to you! I found out about this event via the organizer DJ Fact 50 on Masa's Neo Tokyo City Pop server on Discord last night, so I would like to inform you of this Saturday May 29th Japanese City Pop fundraiser against AAPI hate and for Asian Heritage Month.
Just to quote DJ Fact 50's announcement on Discord:
Hello everyone! I'm organizing an all day City Pop (and related music) Twitch stream on May 29th. It's to both celebrate Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, and to raise money for stopaapihate.org Masa is one of our special guests, and we'll be promoting the Discord community as a co-host of the event as well. It's 12 guests from all over the world, for 12 hours.
Also from that same announcement, the list of confirmed guests has Masa (Japan), Chiyoco (Japan) and Opus Science Collective (UK). Special guest DJs include a couple of friends of mine as well.
Van Paugam (Chicago - Sake Lounge)
Greg Hignight (Los Angeles - Tune In Tokyo)
Space Jams Radio (UK)
Rocket Brown (Los Angeles - Come Along Radio)
Johnny Quan (SF)
Chat Noir (SF)
DJ FACT.50 (SF - Plastic Love Oakland)
If you are interested, you can also check out the Facebook page for the event: https://www.facebook.com/events/859364367951788
Thanks for helping spread the word, sir!
ReplyDeleteHello, Joshua, and my pleasure!
DeleteGlad to see VP is a part of this. I just read that he is winding down his live presence at Twitch. ☹ Whether he keeps his Sentimental Tokyo stream running with recorded material, or running at all, remains to be seen. Barely a year and a half ago, the City Pop/Kayōkyoku/Japanese AOR stream known as Radio Shibui was run out of town at Twitch and YouTube. Two years ago, the RIAJ had VP erased from YT.
ReplyDeleteHi, CookyMonzta. I think that he needs a break after working so hard on promoting City Pop. He's been hit just as hard by the powers-that-be such as RIAJ. It would be nice, although doubtful, if they could come to some sort of understanding someday.
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