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How is the GO-GO scene in Japan recently? |
| Hideyuki |
GO-GO was hot in
Japan
back in the 80's to early 90's. Chuck Brown, Trouble Funk and many more GO-GO bands on TTED were so popular back in the days. They toured in
Japan
several times, and used to release cds constantly. They were doing pretty good in
Japan
. But in the early 90's, they all disappeared and since then, it became harder to get GO-GO products and information. |
| Tsuyoshi |
There is still GO-GO fans out there. They are still listening to old time cd and records, but for these days in general, nobody is paying attention to GO-GO anymore. It seems like people already forgot the existance of GO-GO, especially youngsters don't even know what's GO-GO. |
| Hideyuki |
Right, but thru the activities of Groove Planet, we discovered that when they hear it they still love it. Even some of audiences are not recognizing this music called GO-GO. we've seen every single youngster were dancing to the GO-GO rhythm. they went crazy to it! |
| Tsuyoshi |
Right, that's what a good thing is. Youngsters who don't know 80's went crazy to GO-GO rhythm and started to have interested in GO-GO and that's really exciting. |
| Hideyuki |
yeah, we know they love it. only thing they missing is information. cause there is no GO-GO information at all. nothing. even in Tower records, HMV and other major records store, no cd, no dvd, no advertizement, nothing. so how can they find it? One time, I was looking for Chuck's "Put your hands up!" in Tokyo but I couldn't find it so I've ordered it to "amazon.com". |
| Tsuyoshi |
Hip-Hop and R&B has been very popular in
Japan
for a while already. its so obvious that they love dance music so much. and I know a lot of them are interested in funk music too. But again no information -- period. |
| Hideyuki |
That's right, there is a lot of potential here in
Japan
. The people - they want it. I can feel it. so I think its our responsibility to provide them with the right music and right information |
| Tsuyoshi |
Now, Groove Planet joined TTED and is now working on first release with a big name in go-go. The revival of GO-GO in
Japan
is in real soon. |
| Hideyuki |
Right, and TTED finally got their new website so, a lots of information can be dispatched from the "Capital of GO-GO".
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| Tsuyoshi |
From the Capital of GO-GO! |
| Hideyuki |
Hell yeah! and we're comin' to D.C. too ya! |
