Pacific Breeze Japan Various Artists

Cover art by famed artist Hiroshi Nagai. Extensive liner notes and bios.

Compiled by Andy Cabic (Vetiver), Zach Cowie (DJ & music supervisor) and Mark "Frosty" McNeill (dublab)

Pacific Breeze documents Japan's blast into the stratosphere. By the 1960s, the nation had achieved a postwar miracle, soaring to become the world's second largest economy. Thriving tech exports sent The Rising Sun over the moon. Its pocket cassette players, bleeping video games, and gleaming cars boomed worldwide, wooing pleasure points and pumping Japanese pockets full of yen.