Rhodeo 1125 J-Aetix

Hello, J-Aetix coming up and that means lot's of YMO as i can't rip any vinyl at the moment. I had prepared a post then i just found out that, although prepared i never posted my favorite eighties album by them, BGM, although i thought i did. Meanwhile i found out that my early cd isn't up to scratch as much as i would like..EAC is taking it's time. You'll get the choice of flac or Ogg 9 for either of their eighties albums here. Further more another example from the man of the week Ryuchi Sakamoto..B-2 Unit a classic of it's time and beyond..in flac. Want more then there's the double live album recorded when YMO first ventured out of Japan to London, Paris and New York in the late seventies.

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YMO was originally conceived as a studio project by Hosono, the other two members being recruited session musicians - the idea was to produce an album fusing orientalist exotica (cf their cover version of Martin Denny's Firecracker) with modern electronics. However the first album (with its cutting-edge production) was very popular, and the studio project grew into a fully fledged touring band and career for its three members. In fact it was Hosono's previous album "Paraiso" which started it all , and lay at the base of the name aswell as it was released as Haruomi Hosono and the Yellow Magic Band , anyway track 6 Femme Fatale has the YMO recording together for the first time.

For a few short years YMO were recording, performing and producing others aswell as releasing solo work, i wonder where that Kraftwerk comparison has come from, them germans were never that active, nor have i recognised much humor in their work. Making abundant use of new synthesizers, samplers, digital and computer recording technology as it became available, YMO's popularity and influence extended beyond Japan. In fact 6,5 studio albums wasnt that much considering their combined solo output passes a 100 albums by now, but as said they really wizzed at the time. A decade later they got together again but the release of that album was marred by a rights issue about the YMO name and some samples, though Technodon is a good album they found out that working together as YMO no longer provided the energy and inspiration it once did. Though Hosono and Takahashi with the occasional dash of Sakamoto have released several albums these last years under the name of Sketch Show.On a number of occasions Ryuichi Sakamoto has joined in on Sketch Show performances and recording sessions. He later proposed they rename the group Human Audio Sponge when he participates.

In August 2007, the band once again reformed, taking the name HASYMO or HAS/YMO, combining the names of Human Audio Sponge and Yellow Magic Orchestra. Their first single under this name, "Rescue", was written for the film Appleseed EX Machina. They released a new two song single titled "The City of Light/Tokyo Town Pages" on August 6, 2008. In August 2009, the band played the World Happiness festival in Japan, featuring many Japanese artists. The band closed the night, and confirmed that "Yellow Magic Orchestra" is their official name, dropping the HASYMO title. They opened with a cover of "Hello, Goodbye" and performed old YMO songs along with their newer songs.

In August 2010, YMO once again closed their World Happiness festival. They added classic songs from their back catalog into their set list. In January 2011, KCRW announced for their World Festival concert series that Yellow Magic Orchestra will perform at the Hollywood Bowl on June 26, 2011.Not long after, a concert for June 27, 2001 at The Warfield was added.It was announced in February that YMO will perform at the Fuji Rock festival in July and the World Happiness festival 2011 on 7 August.

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Faker Holic: YMO World Tour Live is a live album by Yellow Magic Orchestra. The material on this live album was recorded during various concerts in 1979, and wasreleased as a double CD in 1991. Several songs appeared on the 1979 live album Public Pressure, with Kazumi Watanabe's guitar parts overdubbed with additional keyboards; the recordings here appear unaltered. "Kay Tong Boy" is a song by Akiko Yano, who performed additional keyboards and backing vocals on this tour.

Faker Holic: YMO World Tour Live (London/Paris) (flac 452mb)

01 Castalia 3:28
02 Rydeen 5:02
03 Behind the Mask 3:11
04 Cosmic Surfin 3:42
05 Radio Junk 4:31
06 Insomnia 4:57
07 La femme chinoise 5:58
08 Technopolis 5:04
09 Solid State Survivor 4:00
10 Day Tripper 2:44
11 Firecracker 5:05
12 The End of Asia 6:11
13 1000 Knives 8:45
14 Tong Poo 6:41

Faker Holic: YMO World Tour Live (New York City) (flac 469mb)

01 Rydeen 4:52
02 Behind the Mask 3:08
03 Radio Junk 4:03
04 Solid State Survivor 3:51
05 Kang Tong Boy 6:06
06 Tong Poo 6:41
07 Day Tripper 2:45
08 1000 Knives 7:52
09 Rocket Factory 4:00
10 La femme chinoise 5:55
11 Firecracker 4:41
12 Cosmic Surfin 3:27
13 The End of Asia 9:17
14 Cosmic Surfin 3:49

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The man of the week owns his own spot an the J-Aetix post, this album produced like a pop album, delivers music both experimental and concise is bursting with originality and sensuality. Sakamoto is in total control of composition, tone colour and mix, without sacrificing anything to spontaneity. Most early eighties electronic pop music will bore the shit out of anybody listening to it now, but that won't be the case with B-2 Unit soon. Lots of non-harmonic content and obscured time signatures still effortlessly in balance with harmony and structure. The pieces range from an almost-poppy ballad to idm-ish to abstract poly-rhythmic breaks, adding up to a greater whole, that is this masterpiece.(in flac)

Ryuichi Sakamoto - B-2 Unit (flac) (80 181mb)

01 Differencia 2:06
02 Thatness And Thereness 3:27
03 Participation Mystique 6:40
04 E-3A 4:46
05 Iconic Storage 4:43
06 Riot In Lagos 5:39
07 Not The 6 O'Clock News 5:04
08 The End Of Europe 4:56

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BGM is the fourth album by Yellow Magic Orchestra produced by Haruomi Hosono, released on March 21, 1981. The title stands for "background music", though promotional material indicated that it could also mean "Beautiful Grotesque Music".
It's a continuation of YMO's techno aesthetic, focusing more on Takahashi's distorted vocals and similarly liquid synth sounds, which give much of the album a melancholic air. Peter Barakan debuts as YMO’s co-lyricist. Ryuichi Sakamoto was often absent from the BGM recording sessions, and he turns in "Music Plans" as his only new composition for the album, since "1000 Knives" and "Happy End" were new recordings of his earlier materials. "Loom" is also a re-working of "The Infinite Space Octave" by YMO computer programmer Hideki Matsutake, and features a slow, upward glissando similar to the Deep Note

YMO was the first band to utilize the Roland TR-808 Rhythm Composer, one of the first programmable drum machines, as early as 1980, and by early 1981, they released BGM as their first studio album utilizing both the Roland MC-4 Microcomposer and TR-808 together. (in Ogg 9 and Flac)

Yellow Magic Orchestra - BGM ( 81  rem 19  296mb)

01 Ballet 4:33
02 Music Plans 4:32
03 Rap Phenomena 4:31
04 Happy End 4:31
05 1000 Knives 5:22
06 Cue 4:31
07 U.T 4:31
08 Camouflage 4:34
09 Mass 4:30
10 Loom 5:21

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Naughty Boys (Uwaki na bokura; "Naughty boys") is the sixth album by Yellow Magic Orchestra. It contains the pop-oriented single "Kimi ni, mune kyun.", as well as a "preview" of "You've Got to Help Yourself", which was released in its full version on the companion album Naughty Boys Instrumental, and again with vocals on Service. Naughty Boys was their final album to top the Oricon charts. After that, no technopop artist was able to reach No.1 until Perfume's 2008 album Game.

"Kimi ni Mune Kyun" also became the highest charting single by a technopop artist on the Oricon charts, debuting at No. 2; a record the song retained until Perfume's "Love the World" debuted at No. 1 in 2008."Ongaku" ("Music") was reportedly written by Ryuichi Sakamoto for his then-three-year-old daughter, Miu. Naughty Boys was re-released in 2004 in a double disc package alongside Naughty Boys Instrumental.

Various cover versions of "Kimi ni Mune Kyun" have been produced by later artists, including The Human League ("YMO Versus The Human League" in 1993), Asako Toki (in 2006), and Yuko Ando. (in Ogg 9 and Flac)

Yellow Magic Orchestra - Naughty Boys (flac) + Instrumental ( 523mb)

01 Kimi Ni Mune Kyun (Uwaki Na Bakansu) 4:07
02 Expected Way 4:36
03 Focus 3:42
04 Ongaku 3:26
05 Opened Eyes 3:40
06 You've Got To Help Youself 0:31
07 Lotus Love 4:06
08 Kai-Koh 4:27
09 Expecting Rivers 4:38
10 Wild Ambitions 5:12
Naughty Boys Instrumental
11 Chaos Panic 4:11        
12 Expected Way 4:34        
13 Focus 3:43        
14 Kai-Koh 4:27        
15 Expecting Rivers 4:36        
16 You've Got To Help Yourself 4:19        
17 Lotus Love 4:06        
18 Ongaku 3:25        
19 Opened My Eyes 3:43        
20 Wild Ambitions 5:12











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elsewhere on this blog
http://rho-xs.blogspot.com/2007/04/japan-ymo.html
Yellow Magic Orchestra - YMO I (79 * 58mb)
YMO - Xoo Multiplies ( 80 * 85mb)
YMO - Technodelic (82 * 98mb)
http://rho-xs.blogspot.com/2007/05/japan-ym-o2.html
YMO - Technodon (93 ^ 145mb)
YMO - Complete Service cd 1 (92 * 94mb)
YMO - Complete Service cd 2 (92 * 87mb)

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