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Shibuya-kei ( Japanese: 渋谷系, lit. "Shibuya style") is a microgenre [7] of pop music [1] or a general aesthetic [8] that flourished in Japan in the mid-to-late 1990s. [3] The music genre is distinguished by a "cut-and-paste" approach that was inspired by the kitsch, fusion, and artifice from certain music styles of the past. [9]
Mar 31, 2020 · A complete guide to the work of five Japanese artists who capture the style and best represent the influence of Tokyo's 1990s Shibuya-kei music scene.
Nov 15, 2004 · In this video I talk about how Keigo Oyamada and Konishi Yasuharu came to create this new sound, through their respective acts Flipper's Guitar, Cornelius, and Pizzicato Five. I also give a brief...
Mar 19, 2022 · Shibuya-kei relied on Hip-Hop beyond its composition and use of beats. Sampling and mixing, explored and deeply used in Hip-Hop became vital in the production of Shibuya-kei music, as they were basically some of its preferred techniques in the creation of musical collages of all kinds of genres.
Shibuya-kei -- literally, "Shibuya style" -- was the name given to the like-minded pop musicians who emerged from this consumer culture, a group of young Japanese weaned on a steady and amazingly eclectic diet of Western pop exports; the result was an unprecedented collision of sights and sounds, with trailblazing acts like Pizzicato 5 drawing o...
Shibuya-kei, or Shibuya style was, clichés aside, more than simply a style of music. The term refers more accurately to a tacit collective of likeminded individuals, defined by their location (in the record shop-strewn fashion district of Shibuya, Tokyo) and a loose time period (the very late 1980s through to the turn of the century).
In its purest form, shibuya-kei is classic Western pop refracted through the looking glass of modern Eastern society -- music cut up, pasted together, and spit out in new and exciting ways.
