For our generation, the YouTube algorithm has been an important way to discover different cultures, but it is so familiar that it can be hard to evaluate. I really enjoyed your honest take and this glimpse into your personal favorites. I’m going to check them out.
Over the past few years, independent collectives in Japan have also begun experimenting with new projects on YouTube, and I had been thinking about the platform’s possibilities, so this felt like a very timely topic for me.
I already loved "Alone in Japan" and had been wanting to recommend it myself. The people featured vary in age and gender, and even as someone living in Japan, their lives feel real to me, like glimpses into a friend’s everyday life.
Another channel I would recommend is login_jp. The format is simple: different artists DJ in different locations. According to Japanese media reports, the project appears to be run by a group of university students. Some sets are great and others less so, but there are a few episodes I absolutely love.
My three favorites feature a young woman DJing techno in her grandfather’s stationery shop, surrounded by old audio equipment; jungle DJ and trumpeter Takuya Nakamura performing in a rice field; and a young B-boy playing old-school soul and hip-hop in his father’s barbershop.
𖦥 chill mix with Japanese grandpa at a stationery shop
This is so cool! Thank you so much, Hana. I am looking forward to checking these out and am pretty sure I will be into these mixes. Oh by the way, I've added this channel after sending it out. Would be interested in hearing if you've come across it, even if it clearly doesn't cater to your generation.
"Zero Waste Life is not a channel but a playlist of documentaries from the Japanese public broadcaster NHK. It contains short portraits of people living a sustainable lifestyle in Japan – not as an urban hipster trend, but as a deeply philosophical decision."
Before I launched À Chacun Son Goût, I've spent many Sunday afternoons watching Good Mythical Morning on YouTube. Thanks to Rhett & Link, I've been updated for innovative entertainments on internet.
Thank you for writing this, Stephan 🐈⬛
For our generation, the YouTube algorithm has been an important way to discover different cultures, but it is so familiar that it can be hard to evaluate. I really enjoyed your honest take and this glimpse into your personal favorites. I’m going to check them out.
Over the past few years, independent collectives in Japan have also begun experimenting with new projects on YouTube, and I had been thinking about the platform’s possibilities, so this felt like a very timely topic for me.
I already loved "Alone in Japan" and had been wanting to recommend it myself. The people featured vary in age and gender, and even as someone living in Japan, their lives feel real to me, like glimpses into a friend’s everyday life.
Another channel I would recommend is login_jp. The format is simple: different artists DJ in different locations. According to Japanese media reports, the project appears to be run by a group of university students. Some sets are great and others less so, but there are a few episodes I absolutely love.
My three favorites feature a young woman DJing techno in her grandfather’s stationery shop, surrounded by old audio equipment; jungle DJ and trumpeter Takuya Nakamura performing in a rice field; and a young B-boy playing old-school soul and hip-hop in his father’s barbershop.
𖦥 chill mix with Japanese grandpa at a stationery shop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ8EyNFg9Dk
𖦥 Jazz jungle mix at Japanese rice field
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVvr1b1oWJA
𖦥 old school soul & hiphop vinyl mix at Japanese barbershop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XGbsGfexG8
Thank you again, and I hope you have a wonderful rest of the summer 🐈⬛
This is so cool! Thank you so much, Hana. I am looking forward to checking these out and am pretty sure I will be into these mixes. Oh by the way, I've added this channel after sending it out. Would be interested in hearing if you've come across it, even if it clearly doesn't cater to your generation.
"Zero Waste Life is not a channel but a playlist of documentaries from the Japanese public broadcaster NHK. It contains short portraits of people living a sustainable lifestyle in Japan – not as an urban hipster trend, but as a deeply philosophical decision."
Before I launched À Chacun Son Goût, I've spent many Sunday afternoons watching Good Mythical Morning on YouTube. Thanks to Rhett & Link, I've been updated for innovative entertainments on internet.
Thanks Tarik, will check them out!