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    Yellow Magic Orchestra (abbreviated to YMO) was a Japanese electronic music band formed in Tokyo in 1978 by Haruomi Hosono (bass, keyboards, vocals), Yukihiro...
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  • Yellow Magic Orchestra is the first official studio album by Japanese electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra, who were previously known as the Yellow...
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  • This is the discography of Japanese electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO). 1980 Public Pressure – Japan No. 1 1984 After Service – Japan No...
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  • "Behind the Mask" is a 1979 song by the Japanese synth-pop group Yellow Magic Orchestra. The composer, Ryuichi Sakamoto, wrote the first version for a television...
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  • Solid State Survivor (category Yellow Magic Orchestra albums)
    Survivor is the second album by Japanese electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra, released in 1979. Later, Solid State Survivor was released in 1982...
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    Ryuichi Sakamoto (category Yellow Magic Orchestra members)
    pursued a diverse range of styles as a solo artist and as a member of Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO). With his bandmates Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi...
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    late 1970s, the pioneering synthpop/electronic dance music group Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO) were using computers to produce synthesized music. Some of...
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  • Technodelic (category Yellow Magic Orchestra albums)
    Technodelic is the fifth studio album by Yellow Magic Orchestra, released in 1981. The album is notable for its experimental approach and heavy use of...
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  • of synth-pop by artists such as Kraftwerk, Giorgio Moroder and Yellow Magic Orchestra with African-American music such as house, electro, and funk. Added...
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  • EUYMO – Yellow Magic Orchestra Live in London + Gijón 2008 is a live album compilation by Yellow Magic Orchestra. It collects two live double-disc YMO...
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  • 2000 [2]. Vine 2011. Aitken 2011. Anonymous 1979. Yellow Magic OrchestraYellow Magic Orchestra at Discogs "Sound International". Sound International...
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  • Moroder in the late 1970s, and the electropop of Kraftwerk and Yellow Magic Orchestra in the mid-to-late 1970s. Author Michael Veal considers dub music...
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    Gamelan (redirect from Gamelan Orchestra)
    influence on Japanese popular music, specifically the synthpop band Yellow Magic Orchestra. Their 1981 record Technodelic, one of the first albums to heavily...
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  • Naughty Boys (album) (category Yellow Magic Orchestra albums)
    (浮気なぼくら, Uwaki na bokura; "Naughty boys") is the sixth album by Yellow Magic Orchestra, recorded from October 1982 to March 1983, and released on May 24...
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  • been compared to English singer Kate Bush. She has recorded with Yellow Magic Orchestra and its members Ryuichi Sakamoto, Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi...
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  • BGM (album) (category Yellow Magic Orchestra albums)
    BGM is the fourth studio album by Yellow Magic Orchestra, released on March 21, 1981. The title stands for "Background music", though Japanese TV and press...
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    electronic group Yellow Magic Orchestra in 1980. The first records to feature the 808 were released the following year: the Yellow Magic Orchestra album BGM...
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  • success with a synthesizer-based sound in the early 1980s. In Japan, Yellow Magic Orchestra introduced the TR-808 rhythm machine to popular music, and the band...
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  • YMO may refer to: Yellow Magic Orchestra, the Japanese synthpop band Yellow Magic Orchestra (album), the band's debut album Moosonee Airport, the IATA...
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    Haruomi Hosono (category Yellow Magic Orchestra members)
    inspired genres such as city pop and Shibuya-kei, and as leader of Yellow Magic Orchestra, contributed to the development and pioneering of numerous electronic...
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    ". "MC-8 MicroComposer Instruction Manual". 1979. Yellow Magic OrchestraYellow Magic Orchestra at Discogs Ryuichi Sakamoto – Thousand Knives Of (CD)...
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    Yukihiro Takahashi (category Yellow Magic Orchestra members)
    best known internationally as the drummer and lead vocalist of the Yellow Magic Orchestra, and as the former drummer of the Sadistic Mika Band. He was also...
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    they were invited to work with veteran Japanese electropop band Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO), which resulted in the EP "YMO Versus The Human League". Released...
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  • by new wave and crossover fusion acts of the late 1970s such as Yellow Magic Orchestra and Southern All Stars. Popular styles of Japanese pop music include...
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    as coming from groups such as Vulfpeck, Toro y Moi, White Denim, Yellow Magic Orchestra, and Feist. On tour, Ginger Root has supported bands such as Khruangbin...
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  • first time. The name "Love-de-Lic" was inspired by Nishi's love for Yellow Magic Orchestra, notably the album Technodelic. Moon: Remix RPG Adventure (1997...
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  • Japan as the number which inspired Haruomi Hosono to establish Yellow Magic Orchestra; a "subversive" version of the song, according to Hosono, appears...
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    grandson is Haruomi Hosono, leading member of the Japanese band Yellow Magic Orchestra. Masabumi Hosono was born on 15 October 1870, in the village of...
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  • Manfred Mann ("Do Wah Diddy Diddy"), The Kinks ("One and One"), Yellow Magic Orchestra ("Mega-Mixx II"), Kraftwerk ("Drop the Bomb"), and Quadrant Six...
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  • discovered artists such as Paul Mauriat, Isao Tomita, Kraftwerk, Yellow Magic Orchestra, and Brian Eno. He also purchased a Roland SH-2, as he wanted fellow...
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