J-Pop Artist of the Week #50 [Electronic/Experimental/Techno]: Yellow Magic Orchestra (Week of April 15th-21st)

[Mandilinn]

The J-Pop Artist of the Week threads are back and suggestions are open! Please PM me if you have an artist you'd like to see featured next week or in the future!

 

April is all filled up with requests, so if you have an artist you want, their thread will be sometime in May.

 

This Week's Artist:

Yellow Magic Orchestra

 

 

Yellow Magic Orchestra (sometimes referred to as just YMO) is a three-member electronic band. They are often considered influential innovators in the field of popular electronic music. They contributed to the development of synthpop, ambient house, electronica, electro, contemporary J-Pop, house, techno, and hip-hop music. YMO were pioneers in their use of sythesizersm samplers, sequencers, drum machies, computers, and digital recording technology in popular music, during a time when these things were seen as novelties. The band was considered "ahead of their time" for anticipating the global trend towards drum machines and sampling, and for having anticipated the "eletropop boom" of the 1980s, their "pro-technological view point", their use of video game sounds and bleeps, and for experimenting heavily with computers and electronic instruments. The bands is famous not only in Japan, but worldwide.

 

To read more about the band's history, go here.

 

Members

 

Haruomi Hosono (Bass, Keyboards, and Vocals)

Yukiro Takahashi (Drums and Lead Vocals)

Ryuichi Sakamoto (Keyboards and Vocals)

 

 

Music

 

Again, because the latest release is a best album, the music links will be in the tracklist. Please suggest any other songs from YMO that you like. Songs that sample YMO's music are acceptable as well.

 

Latest Release

 

[best Album] YMO

Release Date: June 11th, 2011 

Editions: CD-Only

 

 

1. Firecracker

2. Cosmic Surfin'http://

3. La Femme Chinoise

4. Tong Poo

5. Day Tripper

6. Behind the Mask

7. Rydeen

8.

9. U.T.

10.

11. Mass

12. Camoflage

13. Light in Darkness

14. Epilogue

15.

16. Nanga Def?

17. Tokyo Town Pages

 

Websites and Social Media 

 

Official Website: http://www.ymo.org

Official Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/YMOofficial

Official Group Twitter: https://twitter.com/ymo

Yukihiro Takahasi Official Twitter: https://twitter.com/room66plus

Ryuichi Sakamoto Official Twitter: https://twitter.com/ryuichisakamoto

[Mandilinn]

Previous Weeks

 

Female Soloists

 

 

Kana Nishino

Miliyah Kato

Yuka Masaki

Jasmine

MiChi

Seiko Matsuda

Lecca

AI

AISHA

MISIA

Akina Nakamori

JUJU

Mika Nakashima

alan

ALI PROJECT

Hitomi Shimatani

Kanon Wakeshima

 

 

Male Soloists

 

 

Daichi Miura

Yuya Matsushita

Tetsuya Komuro

Ken Hirai

Keisuke Kuwata

Naoto Inti Raymi

 

 

 

Duos

 

 

CHEMISTRY

m-flo

BREATHE

 

 

Dance/Vocal Units

 

 

EXILE

E-Girls

w-inds.

BRIGHT

AAA

J Soul Brothers

TRF

LEAD

 

 

Non-Dance Groups

 

 

Kalafina

 

 

Idols

 

 

Kanjani8

ARASHI

 

 

Bands

 

 

Sakanaction

SPYAIR

ONE OK ROCK

GIRL NEXT DOOR

BACK-ON

NEGOTO

 

 

Special Weeks and Features

 

 

Zainichi Korean Artists

Top 3 Highest-Selling Japanese Rock Bands

The Queens of J-Pop

Artists Who Used to Be Idols

 

 

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Could not find half of the old threads, so I'll have to completely re-do some of these. Please be patient!

[His Majesty Robosexual]

[eyeless]

I know about them when Shiritsu Ebisu Chuugaku cover their song Taiso, and then listen to some of their songs.

 

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TElOYK2ANBA

[DocumentaLy]

Ohh, Firecracker... The song that led to Mariah's meltdown...

 

The track (Loverboy) was subject to controversy, following reports that Jennifer Lopez and Tommy Mottola (Carey's ex-husband) stole the idea of sampling the singer's original planned sample, Yellow Magic Orchestra's "Firecracker", over a month after Carey had signed for it. Since Carey's Glitter was to be released over a month after Lopez's album, she changed the song's melody to sample from "Candy" instead. Controversy ensued following its release; Carey was hospitalized for severe mental and physical exhaustion, following poorly received television appearances involving the song and album.

 

 

Jennifer used the sample in I'm Real:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge6ZXAq1vtc

 

Mariah's song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Phql0ar-m_0

 

 

I'm remember losing a bid to buy a Warhol print of Ryuichi Sakamoto a number of years ago...

[LAV]

 when I used this as my avi last year,  my thread asked me who were those 3 dudes...lol

 

This was my 1st vinyl of theirs...& my all time fav. Later on, I just gravitated to Ryuichi  Sakamoto.  

 

 

 

Thanks for this thread..

 

edit: Bring out Chage & Aska coz the forum needs to know the Kings....

[Nyokou]

YMO <3

[itsquinnbro]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8tJwBgXxpw

 

Not only is Kiko Mizuhara in this MV, but this song is also flawless.

[Thigh-high feminist]

Love them. <3

[a(mber)]

HOLY FUCKING SHIT HOW DID THIS HAPPEN




people still know them?

[wiz109]

Ohh, Firecracker... The song that led to Mariah's meltdown...

 

 

Jennifer used the sample in I'm Real:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge6ZXAq1vtc

 

Mariah's song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Phql0ar-m_0

 

 

I'm remember losing a bid to buy a Warhol print of Ryuichi Sakamoto a number of years ago...

wow did not know this