YMO ?– Technodelic 1981 YELLOW MAGIC ORCHESTRA Minimal Japan Synth POP New Wave

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YMO ?Technodelic

Alfa Records Inc. ?– ALF 85621, NL 1981

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.

It is considered the first released album to feature mostly samples and loops, influencing
the heavy use of sampling and looping in popular music. YMO's approach to sampling music
was a precursor to the contemporary approach of constructing music by cutting fragments of
sounds and looping them using computer technology.


A1     Pure Jam    
A2     Neue Tanz    
A3     Stairs    
A4     Seoul Music    
A5     Light In Darkness    

B1     Taiso    
B2     Gradated Grey    
B3     Key    
B4     Prologue    
B5     Epilogue    


    A&R Kazusuke Obi
    Design The Studio
    Assistant Engineer Yoshifumi Iio
    Mixing Engineer Mitsuo Koike
    Executive-Producer Shoro Kawazde
    Anglicised Lyrics By Peter Barakan
    Management Hiroshi Okura, Yoichi Itoh
    Mastered By Hiroshi Yuasa
    Performer Haruomi Hosono, Riuichi Sakamoto, Yukihiro Takahashi
    Artwork & Photography By Yukimasa Okumura
    Produced by H. Hosono
    Produced & Mixed By YMO

Production

Most of the sampling was made with an LMD-649 - a hand-made sampler developed by
Toshiba-EMI engineer Kenji Murata, and a much cheaper alternative to the Linn LM-1
drum machine and Fairlight CMI sampling synthesizer available at the time. Notable
samples used include Indonesian kecak chanting (Neue Tanz), gamelan and short looped
vocals ("paa", "fuku", "chiki") for percussion in "Seoul Music," and the final two
tracks feature factory noises. The album also features use of speech through a two-way
radio, a prepared piano, Prophet-5 synthesizers, and a TR-808 drum machine.


Associated Acts

Kraftwerk, Chris & Cosey, Carter & Tutti, Neu, Liaisons Dangereuses, Legendary
Pink Dots, New Order, Logic System, DAF, Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Cabaret Voltaire, A Certain Ratio, Pornsect, Mekanik Kommando, The Normal, Syph,
The Human League, Palais Schaumburg, HASYMO, Human Audio Sponge, Polyphonics,
Pre YMO, The Residents, Senor Coconut, Christian Fennesz, Cornelius, Ichiko
Hashimoto, Hideki Matsutake, Bill Nelson, Sandii Akiko Yano, Kazumi Watanabe

Legacy

YMO has been described as "the original cyberpunks" and their early work has been described as
"proto-techno" music. By the 1990s, YMO were also frequently cited as pioneers of ambient house music. YMO also popularized a style of live performance that eschewed human movement in favour of electronics such as drum machines, sequencers, synthesizers and samplers. They also influenced the New Romantic movement, including British bands Duran Duran and Japan, whose member Steve Jansen was influenced by drummer Takahashi, while lead member David Sylvian was influenced by Sakamoto, who would later collaborate with Sylvian.

In HMV Japan's list of top 100 Japanese musicians of all time, YMO were voted second place, behind only Southern All Stars, a pop-rock band who remain largely unknown outside Japan. In 2006, Senor Coconut paid tribute to the band with his Yellow Fever! album.

In 1993, Johnny Black of Hi-Fi News, in a review for the record Hi-Tech/No Crime, described YMO as "the most adventurous and influential electro-techno-dance technicians the world has produced" and further argued that "without them (and Kraftwerk) today's music would still sound like yesterday's music." In 2001, Jason Ankeny of the Allmusic Guide to Electronica described YMO Orchestra as "a seminal influence on contemporary electronic music – hugely popular both at home and abroad" and placed them "second only to Kraftwerk as innovators of today's electronic culture."

YMO are considered pioneers in the field of popular electronic music, and continue to be remixed or sampled by modern artists, including experimental artist Yamantaka Eye, electronica group LFO, jungle band 4hero, electrolatino artist Senor Coconut, ambient house pioneers The Orb and 808 State, electronic music groups Orbital and The Human League, hip hop pioneer Afrika Bambaataa, and mainstream pop musicians such as Michael Jackson, Quincy Jones, Greg Phillinganes, Eric Clapton, Mariah Carey, and Jennifer Lopez.

YMO also influenced techno music, including its pioneers Juan Atkins, Kevin Saunderson, and Derrick May, who cited YMO as an important influence on their work alongside Kraftwerk. YMO continued to influence later techno musicians such as Surgeon, ?-Ziq, and Cosmic Baby. "Technopolis" (1979) in particular is considered an "interesting contribution" to the development of Detroit techno and the group Cybotron. "

YMO's success with music technology encouraged many others, with their influence strongly felt in the British electronic scene of the early 1980s in particular.They influenced many early British synthpop acts, including Ultravox, John Foxx, Gary Numan, Duran Duran, Depeche Mode, Camouflage,OMD, The Human League, Visage, and Art of Noise, as well as American rock musicians such as Todd Rundgren.

Yellow Magic Orchestra was also the first computer-themed music album, coming before Kraftwerk's Computer World in (1981) by several years. As a result of such innovations, YMO were credited at the time for having "ushered in the age of the computer programmer as rock star."

Electronic equipment used by the group included the ARP Odyssey, Fairlight CMI, Polymoog, Moog III-C, Oberheim 8 Voice, Prophet 5, Pollard Syndrum, E-mulator, Roland VP-330, Roland MC-4, Korg PS-3300, and Yamaha DX7.


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