Plastic clothing! Wild hair cuts! Synthesizers!! It’s an hour of music culled from the early 80s synthpop explosion in Japan – featuring Yellow Magic Orchestra (of course),  Ippu-Do, Mayumi Chiwaki, and the inimitable Miharu Koshi. From Bowie to Kanye, everybody was influenced by Japan’s early 80s love affair with the synthesizer in pop music. Find out why.

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Playlist (all titles written in Roman lettering):

Ippu-Do – Sumire September Love, 1982
Miharu Koshi – Parallelisme, 1984
Yasuaki Shimizu – Suiren, 1982
Phew – Closed, 1981
Yellow Magic Orchestra – Kimi Ni Mune Kyun, 1983
Ryuichi Sakamoto – Relâche, 1981
Chakra – Medaka, 1981
Haruomi Hosono – Gaplus, 1984
Aikiko Yano – Rose Garden, 1981
Chiemi Manabe – Untotooku, 1982
Mayumi Chiwaki – Metallic Heaven, 1986
Aikiko Yano – Tong poo, 1982
Hiroshi Sato – Say Goodbye, 1982