Ol' "Kayo Kyoku Plus" buddy JTM and I were having our usual monthly chat on all things pop culture last Sunday and he mentioned that he had encountered an Internet radio station devoted to popular Japanese music. Called Asia Dream Radio, I had assumed that this was a relatively new addition to the J-Pop/kayo kyoku cybersphere.
Wow! Was I wrong. It's been around since 2015 at least although I'm not sure if it was as jam-packed with the variety of channels that it has now according to its website. Asia Dream Radio has the subtitle of "The Heart of J-Pop Music" and its channels cover everything from kayo kyoku to hip-hop. There's even a channel devoted to boy bands, so I know that one of my friends would certainly be interested in that one considering she's a huge Snow Man fan.
The crazy thing is that it all originates from the Toronto area, my neck of the woods, via the TorontoCast corporation. So I gather that for all of you high school and university students who like to have the nonstop Japanese pop while cramming or pulling off all-nighters, Asia Dream Radio may be the thing for you.
By the way, the above video has all of the usual radio jingles promoting the station which reminds me of one funny scene from "Family Guy".
Yeah Asia Dream Radio has been around for some time and for as far back as I've known them they've had all of those channels -- "J-Pop Sakura" is a regular go-to when I want to listen to internet radio.
ReplyDeleteJ1 Radio is a similar station with several j-pop channels, including "J1 Gold" for all of your kayokyoku needs!
And for anyone interested there is also J-Pop Project Radio which consists of two channels of more recent j-pop / idol music.
ReplyDeleteThe last few decades have been good ones for Japanese pop music fans. Back when I was in university, it was just the radio show "Sounds of Japan" when it covered pop music once a month, video tape rentals, purchases of any available LPs in Chinatown and the annual Kohaku Utagassen that kept me in the know.
DeleteFrom 80's till the mid-90’s, the city I lived in had a Nippon Daido, and a handful of almost hidden import stores where one could get Japanese video, music, and other products legally. On occasion, I may have accidentally recorded Japanese CDs I borrowed from a friend onto Minidisc for educational purposes, of course. You see I had a Cd changer that was connected to a Minidisc deck and I perhaps did not understand how to use it and opps!
ReplyDeleteYes, I also did my own share of "educational" research over the decades. :) As a teen, I could only salivate about getting a CD changer.
DeleteHey, today harddisc (if anyone still used them anymore) and Solid State drives (plus the cloud) have kind of made CD changers obsolete in today's world! Anyway, this blog is proof your decades worth of dedicated research and what's more is you are also educating the community, too.
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