Just out of curiosity and a sense of the nostalgic, I threw in the phrase "Doctor Who and the TARDIS whizzing through space and time in a cartoon way." via the Bing AI art generator. Well, I thought I was going to get something bizarre but apparently, even Bing knows about everyone's favourite Time Lord and his TARDIS. However, the Doctor above apparently has the Tenth Doctor's face and the Eleventh Doctor's costume.
Anyways, enough geeking out over one particular corner of my pop culture mind. Let's go back to the one that I should be geeking out over for this blog. Let me introduce you to the group KAGAMI and quote their description from their website:
KAGAMI is a Netherlands-based Cosmic Funk duo led by producers Lucas Sim and Rotem Gerad.
What began as a shared love for 80s Japanese City Pop and AOR grew into a project that also embraces the pulse of French Touch, Italo Disco, and Brazilian MPB. Inspired by artists like Daft Punk and Tatsuro Yamashita, their music blends live instrumentation with synth-centered production into a sound which is both nostalgic and forward-looking.
So, as far as my own musical tastes go, there's a lot of potential expected from Sim and Gerad although I'm not up on my French Touch, but you can check out this link to YouTube for what this genre has. In any case, their debut EP from April this year, "Time Machine", boasts their take on 80s Japanese City Pop and AOR, and they've got some help from the buttery-voiced Fukuoka-born singer-songwriter kiki vivi lily and keyboardist, singer-songwriter and track maker Kan Sano. This one track "Friends" certainly has the groove of City Pop and some of that cute blippity-bloppity, timey-wimey synthesizer sense. It kinda sounds like the Doctor's innocent traipsing through Shinjuku with his latest companion.
I am not sure how you found this, but what a fine find! A group from the Netherlands dedicated to a kind of fusion of Japanese music tastes and styles. "Time Machine" is definitely a fitting title for this song and maybe even as a theme for this dynamic duo. I am not sure, bit it does feel like there might be a pinch of fashion music added to this tune?
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't be surprised if there were an element of Fashion Music since it seems to be a mix of things. Those YouTube browsings really do pay off.
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