A pounding and pulsating collection of J-Pop music that has been playing on a constant loop at Walt Disney Imagineering Art Director Michael Dobrzycki’s desk for the past few months is about to become the soundtrack for San Fransokyo Square at Disney California Adventure.
“It was a super fun loop to work on,” Dobrzycki said during a San Fransokyo Square press preview. “If you stay in the land for 90 minutes, you’ll hear the full loop.”
J-Pop tunes will be the ubiquitous background music heard throughout San Fransokyo Square when DCA’s newest themed land officially debuts on Aug. 31.
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The first new San Fransokyo Square menu items will begin rolling out on Wednesday, July 19 as Imagineering continues the transformation of the former Pacific Wharf food court into a tribute to the “Big Hero 6” film.
DCA visitors waiting in line for food or sitting down to eat in San Fransokyo Square may find themselves tapping their foot along with the bright and cheery J-Pop tunes or chewing a little faster to the high energy beat.
The San Fransokyo Square soundtrack loop will feature Japanese pop music from 2014 when “Big Hero 6” was released in theaters as well as more current songs from the music genre.
Dobrzycki started building the San Fransokyo Square soundtrack from a fun and bouncy music loop used at the Epcot World Showcase in Florida.
“If you’re really into your music, you’ll notice there are some tracks from the Japanese Pavilion,” Dobrzycki said.
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Dobrzycki rounded out the San Fransokyo Square soundtrack with contemporary J-Pop songs that worked well with the 2014 era tunes and Epcot World Showcase loop.
“They’re very bright,” Dobrzycki said. “They’re very poppy.”
There are also four songs interspersed throughout…
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