🇯🇵 "Melting Blue" by Seaside Lovers is a Japanese song from 1983. It's hard to explain what it even sounds like but it reminds me of tropic resort music + jazz fusion + city pop. I love this vibe.
Although this album was reissued, the original vinyl records were very expensive.
Spike Jonze directed and starred in Fatboy Slim’s “Praise You” music video as Richard Koufey, leader of the fictional Torrance Community Dance Group. Shot guerrilla-style for just $800 outside the Fox Bruin Theater, the unscripted performance won three MTV Video Music Awards.
Fun Fact: the texture on that building wall was created from a photo of my driveway. And sky is (partially) a photo of the sky that I took while standing on my driveway. This was innovative stuff back in 2003.