Oreo Chii

Oreo Chii is a Japanese radio station, and that's about all the station itself will tell you. No genre tag, no language notes, no long mission statement. Fine by me. What you get instead is radio in the pure sense: someone in a studio in Japan deciding what plays next, jingles and all. Japanese broadcasting has its own grammar. Presenters talk over intros, ad reads run long, and the pacing can feel slow if you're used to the hyper-edited stuff. Stick with it. That looseness is the charm. Expect the kind of pop that fills Japanese airwaves, plus city pop touchstones like Tatsuro Yamashita and t…