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Kamasami Kong gives voice to city pop's resurgence on 'FM Station '
Many people today who listen to “city pop,” a bubbly take on funk, disco and dance pop that came out during Japan’s economic heyday, can only imagine how dizzying it might have been to see the glitz and excess of the s and '90s. Radio DJ and personality Kamasami Kong lived it.
“Every night was a party. Every night was a disco or a nightclub or a bar with friends, and every morning was a hangover,” he tells The Japan Times. While his days were occupied with MCing events at malls or beaches outside of Tokyo, “after that, we’d come back into the city and go to a studio. I’d be recording something for this artist or that artist, or doing a radio or television show. It all happened so fast it was a blur.”
He and I talk for over four hours at a Mexican restaurant in Toranomon Hills on a warm June night, though I spend most of that time soaking in stories about Kong meeting Prince at an Osaka nightclub or having to orga
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Brother Noland is a well-spring of inspiration and knowledge. His roots hold deep in both urban and natural environments in the Hawaiian Islands, and his influences comes from around the world.
In preparation for the reissue of Noland's debut LP, Speaking Brown, we chatted with him about his music, growing up, and what it means to "speak brown".
Roger Bong: Tell me your name. Where you’re from. Who you are.
Brother Noland: So, you know my name already [laughs]. Pretty much raised in the inner city. And then having the opportunity to be raised also on the outskirts of the Big Island, in ranch country. I had, like that song by War, “City Country City” — I was able to have some of that throughout my younger years. It gave me a really good balance — balance with nature, and also the balance with the nature of human behavior, because when I was growing up in the projects, [it’s a] totally different jungle. So I was raised in two jungles, yeah — the concrete jungle, and the
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