City Pop with a Live New York Clock

Boogie basslines and midnight-avenue funk — big-city-nightlife pop, on Eastern time.

This station runs the funky, uptown side of city pop: openly-licensed city-pop-flavored boogie, funk and AOR — slick basslines, lush chords and a warm nocturnal sheen — crossfaded so the cruise never ends. It's music for midnight avenues and a skyline that stays lit.

City pop is, at heart, big-city-nightlife music — and New York wrote much of that vocabulary. The boogie, disco and smooth funk that came out of late-70s NYC fed directly into what Japan polished into city pop, so a New York night is really the sound coming home. A live Eastern-time clock keeps the loop honest above the avenues.

It's ideal for a night in the city, an easy evening, or nostalgic focus — music built for taxis, glass towers and staying up. The mellow instrumental cuts keep momentum without stealing attention.

The soundbed is openly-licensed (CC0 and CC-BY), credited and crossfaded so there's no audible loop and no copyright risk. The clock holds true Eastern Time while the scene keeps New York hours — steel daylight between towers, a warm avenue dusk, and deep glowing night when the grid lights up.