Title : Kanashimi no LUCKY STAR
Artist : HARUOMI HOSONO
19th album “HoSoNoVa”
2011/4/20
From wiki
“Haruomi Hosono also known as Harry Hosono, is a Japanese musician, songwriter and record producer. He is best known internationally as a member of the rock band Happy End and the electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra with Yukihiro Takahashi and Ryuichi Sakamoto.
Hosono has also released many solo albums covering a variety of styles, including film soundtracks and a variety of electronic ambient albums. As well as recording his own music, Hosono has done considerable production work for other artists such as Miharu Koshi, Sheena and the Roketts, Sandii and the Sunsetz, Chisato Moritaka and Seiko Matsuda. In 2003, Hosono was ranked by HMV Japan at number 44 on their list of the 100 most important Japanese pop acts.”
– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haruomi_Hosono
Title : Androgena
Artist : Haruomi HOSONO
7th album “S・F・X”
1984.12.16
From wiki
“Haruomi Hosono, also known as Harry Hosono, is a renowned Japanese musician, best known internationally as a key member of the rock band Happy End and the pioneering electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra.
In 1977, Hosono invited Ryuichi Sakamoto and Yukihiro Takahashi to work on his exotica-flavoured album Paraiso, which included electronic music produced using the Yamaha CS-80 polyphonic synthesizer and ARP Odyssey synthesizer. The band was named “”Harry Hosono and the Yellow Magic Band”” and, having been recorded in late 1977, Paraiso was released in early 1978.[4] The three worked together again for the 1978 electronic album Pacific, which included an early version of the song “”Cosmic Surfin””.
– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haruomi_Hosono
Title : Kimi ni mune kyun
Artist : YMO
6th album “Naughyt Boys / Naughty Boys Instrumental”
1983.5.24
From wiki
“Naughty Boys (Uwaki na bokura) is the sixth album by Yellow Magic Orchestra.
“”Kimi ni Mune Kyun”” also became the highest charting single by a technopop artist on the Oricon charts, debuting at No. 2.
Various cover versions of “”Kimi ni Mune Kyun”” have been produced by later artist”
– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naughty_Boys
Title : PURE JAM
Artist : YMO
5th album “TECHNODELIC”
1981.11.21
From wiki
“Technodelic is the fifth studio album by Yellow Magic Orchestra, released in 1981. The album is notable for its experimental and heavy use of samplers which were not commonly used until the mid-to-late 1980s, resulting in a more minimalist sound compared to their previous work.”
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technodelic
Title : STAIRS
Artist : YMO
5th album “TECHNODELIC”
1981.11.21
From wiki
“Technodelic is the fifth studio album by Yellow Magic Orchestra, released in 1981. The album is notable for its experimental and heavy use of samplers which were not commonly used until the mid-to-late 1980s, resulting in a more minimalist sound compared to their previous work.
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-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technodelic
Title : U.T.
Artist : YMO
4th album “BGM”
1981.3.21
From wiki
“BGM is the fourth album by Yellow Magic Orchestra, released on March 21, 1981.
When released in 1981, the album’s reception was positive. Stereo Review described the recording as “”Crystalline”” and the performance as “”The twain meet””, praising the album for its “”remarkable”” blend between “”East and West,”” its “”catchy tunes,”” its “”ambitious collection of electronics,”” and for “”pushing at the frontiers of electronic rock”” but noted that this affected the album’s accessibility.”
– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BGM_(album)
Title : Technopolis
Artist : YMO
2nd album “Solid State Survivor”
1979.9.25
From wiki
“Solid State Survivor was the second album by Japanese electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra, released in 1979.
Solid State Survivor won the Best Album Award at the 22nd Japan Record Awards,[5] and it sold two million records.[6] Several songs from the album have continued to be widely covered and sampled.
This was YMO’s most successful album in Japan. It was the best selling album in the Oricon LP Chart for 1980”
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_State_Survivor
Title : Rydeen
Artist : YMO
2nd album “Solid State Survivor”
1979.9.25
From wiki
“Solid State Survivor was the second album by Japanese electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra, released in 1979.
Solid State Survivor won the Best Album Award at the 22nd Japan Record Awards,[5] and it sold two million records.[6] Several songs from the album have continued to be widely covered and sampled.
This was YMO’s most successful album in Japan. It was the best selling album in the Oricon LP Chart for 1980”
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_State_Survivor
Title : Firecracker
Artist : YMO
1st album “YELLOW MAGIC ORCHESTRA”
1978.11.25
Pioneer of Electro POP !
From wiki
“Yellow Magic Orchestra is the first official studio album by Japanese electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra, who were previously known as the Yellow Magic Band.
The album was an early example of synthpop, a genre that the band helped pioneer.
The album was intended to be a one-off project for producer and bass player Haruomi Hosono and the two session musicians he had hired: drummer Yukihiro Takahashi and keyboard player Ryuichi Sakamoto. The trio were to create their own cover version of Martin Denny’s 1959 exotica melody “”Firecracker”” with modern electronics, as a subversion of the exoticisation and Orientalism of the original tune, along with various original compositions also exploring themes of Asianness, exoticisation and Orientalism from a Japanese perspective.
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– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Magic_Orchestra_(album)