Reborn Tokyo Golden Age

The 1980s was the dawn period of the vigorous development of neon music, and at this time City Pop (City POP) was just emerging.

Most of the songs were written on themes of hecticness, alienation and luxury in big cities, especially Tokyo.

As a typical representative of one country and one city, Tokyo has attracted countless young people to join here.

In the past two years, with the take-off of the neon economy, people's wallets have gradually bulged up.

The creation of art comes from life, so this kind of theme song expressing the hedonism in big cities has gradually become popular among people.

The representative figures of urban music are mainly young idol singers.

Seiko Matsuda, Hiromi Iwasaki, Yoshie Kashiwahara from the 80th group, Akina Nakamori and Kyoko Koizumi from the 82nd group are all shining idol singers in the trend of the times.

As one of the performing arts that entertains the public, the music field, not to mention the profit, deserves Bai Chuanfeng's special attention just because of its huge social influence.

When an enterprise develops to a certain level, if profit is the first factor considered, then the factor of influence definitely ranks second.

Even when some businesses do not make money, the huge social influence is still worthy of continuous investment by enterprises.

Now that Shirakawa Electric has been listed, the follow-up development will be on the right track. At this time, Shirakawa Holdings began to seek a breakthrough in social influence.

There is no doubt that the entertainment industry is a shortcut, and considering that it can be linked with its own products, the record company is a very suitable choice.

After all, it's no surprise at Neon that audio-visual equipment makers have ventured into the record business.

For example, Sony, Yamaha, JVC, Pioneer, etc., they all have their own record companies.

This kind of club that entered the record industry as a manufacturing company is called the Electric Manufacturing Department in the neon entertainment circle.

Although Shirakawa Holdings is now involved in the record industry, because of its special relationship with Shirakawa Electric, this record company still belongs to the electric manufacturing department.

But to set up a record company, Bai Chuanfeng would not start from scratch and build up his own team bit by bit.

His method is very simple and rude, that is to give full play to the role of banknote ability.

Shirakawa Holdings directly acquired Art Union, Denon, East Wind, etc., several small record companies that did not have a sense of existence.

At the same time, the Daei Records department was integrated, and a brand new record company, SAOND, was established based on the team of these firms.

SAOND, the beginning is taken from the first and last two letters of the Roman sound of "Bai Chuan", and at the same time, it uses Sound (sound) as a homonym, and this simple and catchy name is established.

Daying itself also has its own record label, but it gradually stopped operating because of poor management.

But the team of the department is still there, and they are all experienced practitioners in the recording industry.

Based on this, combined with several small record companies that have been completely acquired, the main framework of SAOND has been set up.

But if you want to develop in the field of recording, you can't rely on this manpower alone.

"Seiko, who is your current producer?" In the office, Bai Chuanfeng and Matsuda Seiko were lying together, studying the development plan of SAOND.

"Hey" Matsuda Seiko was taken aback, and then replied casually, "It's Wakamatsumune Yusan, and Shirakawa-kun has seen him too. Oh, no, Wakamatsu-san has seen Baichuan-kun."

"Huh?" Bai Chuanfeng's eyes showed doubts, why he didn't have any impression.

"When I first came to Tokyo, I had dinner with Aizawa-san and Wakamatsu-san at an izakaya.

At that time, Shirakawa-kun was also there. I remember you sang "Dragonfly". "

That was the first time Matsuda Seiko and Bai Chuanfeng met. Although they didn't say a word to each other, she just remembered him.

And what she never expected was that the girl who was at the same table with Bai Chuan-kun that day would turn out to be her competitor in the future.

Damn, it's just a little bit late.

Bai Chuanfeng didn't know about Seiko Matsuda's imagination, but when she reminded him, a flash of surprise flashed in his eyes.

It seemed that Aizawa-san wanted to invite himself to debut as an artist that day.

After he refused at the time, he turned around and glanced inadvertently, and indeed saw a girl and a middle-aged man standing at the intersection.

The girl is Seiko Matsuda, and the middle-aged man must be that Yusan Wakamatsu.

"Which firm is Wakamatsu-san at now?" Bai Chuanfeng's eyes began to flicker.

"At CBS/SONY Music, responsible for the planning and production of six volumes." Little Huya also began to learn the same way, and his eyes lit up.

"It's all at Sony, that's just right~ Let's talk about it then."

Seiko Matsuda here, Shirakawa Feng has already passed the gas with Norio Oga, and the other party will release him after March.

The relationship between the two of them, Ohe Norio naturally knew what was going on.

There was no need for Sony to hate Bai Chuanfeng for the sake of an artist.

Of course, Bai Chuanfeng is not a whore for nothing, and there is also some exchange of interests.

For example, the cooperative promotion of chewing gum batteries, for Sony, their Walkman also has battery life problems.

Now Shirakawa Electric has found a solution, Nini, look, do you want to do it together?

Facing the gleaming gum battery in Shirakawa Electric's hand, Sony wiped the corner of his mouth fiercely, and then decisively chose to let him go.

Unexpectedly, Bai Chuan Electric, a guy with thick eyebrows and big eyes, would come up with this kind of black technology behind his back.

Sony has more electronics and a wider range of applications for gum batteries.

As for the application of chewing gum batteries, if the two jointly promote it, its acceptance rate will definitely be greatly accelerated.

Of course, the business belongs to the business, and the patent fee that should be paid, Baichuan Electric did not take a penny away.

But for Sony, Baichuan Electric can take out the chewing gum battery, which is a big advantage.

This will save them a lot of manpower, material and financial resources to solve the battery life problem of their products, and of course the time cost is the same.

In the early 1980s, Sony had nothing in the battery field and had only just decided to enter the industry internally.

Not to mention the battery factory, even the department has not yet been established.

Therefore, there is a high probability that chewing gum batteries will be sold by Shirakawa Electric for a year and a half before Sony's own chewing gum batteries will appear on the market.

So before Sony's battery factory was put into production, whose chewing gum batteries were used for its products?

Bai Chuanfeng tickled the corner of his mouth, and wrote down the name of Wakamatsu Muneo on the white paper with a pen, so that the president of SAOND, Sang, would be in place.

Of course it won't work just to bring Seiko Matsuda over. A mature production team is needed to support a record company.

Since Zongxiong Wakamatsu can serve as the head of the production department at Sony Music, he must have the ability.

At the same time, because he is an insider, he also discovered Seiko Matsuda, a popular idol singer, so his personal connections and vision have their own uniqueness.

Ability, contacts, vision, all the qualities that a record company manager should possess are all in one.

"By the way, who is the composer of the Holy Son's lyrics?"

"Matsumoto Takasan, Omura Yaro-san, Saizu Kazuo-san, Hosono Harumi-san, Tsutsumi Kyohira-san..."

Seiko Matsuda, who already knew what Bai Chuanfeng was up to, reported a series of names without hesitation.

"Wait, wait~" Bai Chuanfeng raised his hand to stop her registration game, "There are so many?"

"Uh" Little Huya stuck out his tongue, "This is a lyricist and composer who is cooperating and has the intention of cooperating."

In fact, only the first two really cooperated, and the rest were all famous people who Seiko Matsuda wanted to cooperate with.

She knew that Bai Chuanfeng was going to use his banknote ability, so of course he took this opportunity to wipe out all those famous people.

"Forget it." Bai Chuanfeng shook his head, he knew what Seiko Matsuda was up to.

"I will invite you to try it in the name of SAOND at that time. As for whether it will be successful or not, it is not certain."

He doesn't know much about the music industry, but he also knows that many songwriters and composers don't have fixed offices.

Mostly, every record company will occasionally cooperate a few times, so SAOND is not without opportunities.

But apart from them, Bai Chuanfeng wrote down the name Oda Tetsuro on the paper.

This was the only neon composer he had heard of and remembered in his previous life.

Especially in the 1990s, many people must have heard the theme song of "Guannan Master".

Although there is a high probability that he is still working as a composer under the surname of Nagato at this time, Bai Chuanfeng has a lot of ways to poach him.

Even Sony Music hasn't grown up these days, let alone a small record company.

"Hey, who is this?" Matsuda Seiko, who was lying on his shoulder, looked curiously at the last name written on the paper.

"A rookie with potential." Bai Chuanfeng put down his pen and began to look for her weakness.

"Hey, this is the office." Matsuda Seiko's voice was a little nervous, but also a little excited?

"Well, no one will come here."

Bai Chuanfeng directly picked her up and walked to the rest room next door.

Cough, Bai Chuanfeng's office in Bai Chuan Building is very big, and of course the facilities are also very complete.

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The establishment of a record company is only a small part of Baichuan Holdings' actions this year.

He will also meet several well-known people in the music industry, such as Harutomi Hosono and Kyohei Tsutsumi.

With their status in the industry, the temptation of money has been greatly reduced. At this time, reputation is much more useful than money.

The top person in charge of a large listed company invited them personally, and there must be enough reasons to make them tempted.

Bai Chuanfeng is a pragmatist, as long as it can bring him benefits, it is nothing to go there himself.

The same is true for Wakamatsu Muneona, for SAOND's future management policy, we still need to have an interview with him.

Moreover, the sudden transfer from Sony to SAOND, Bai Chuanfeng, the mastermind behind the scenes, came forward to appease him, which could also make him feel at ease faster.

But before that, he needs to meet someone else.

Shirakawa Electric's home game consoles will be released in the first half of the year, and it's time to meet the game makers mentioned at Satoshi Iwata's year-end meeting.

In fact, these game developers have already produced several games for Baichuan Electric's home game consoles.

Now they are waiting for Baichuan Electric to make a decision here, and they can immediately prepare for the subsequent release.

When Satoru Iwata developed the prototype, he summoned several of them to do related adaptation development work.

Now is the time to test their results.