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Meguro
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Meguro is a special ward in Tokyo, Japan. The English translation of its Japanese self-designation is Meguro City, the ward was founded on March 15,1947. Residential neighborhoods include, Jiyugaoka, Kakinokizaka, and Nakameguro, as of May 1,2015, the ward has an estimated population of 277,171 and a population density of 18,890 persons per km2. The total area is 14.67 km2, the Higashiyama shell mound in the north of the ward contains remains from the paleolithic, Jōmon, Yayoi, and Kofun periods. The area now known as Meguro was formerly two towns, Meguro proper and Hibusuma, all parts of the former Ebara District of Musashi Province. The two were merged into a Meguro ward for Tokyo City in 1932 and since then the ward has remained with no alterations to its territory, the name Meguro, meaning black eyes, derives from the Meguro Fudō of Ryūsenji. Each statue had eyes of a different color, four other special wards surround Meguro. They are Shibuya, Setagaya, Ōta, and Shinagawa, Meguro ward government is led by the city assembly with 36 elected members with current terms from May 1,2011 to April 30,2015. The chairman of the council is Yoshiaki Ito, the mayor is Eiji Aoki, an independent. His term lasts until April 24,2016, michaels Catholic Church Himonya Hachiman Shrine Ōtori Shrine Ryūsenji Yūten-ji Temple St. Route 3 Shibuya radial route Central Circular Route C2 Under construction. Public elementary and junior schools are operated by the Meguro City Board of Education. Public high schools are operated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Board of Education, halca & Yucali of the hip-hop duo Halcali Sato Shori, singer and actor in male idol group Sexy Zone Official website
Meguro
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Cherry trees along the
Meguro River, near
Nakameguro
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Hokusai ukiyo-e of a view of
Mount Fuji from Shimo Meguro
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Meguro Ward Government Offices
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Meguro Sky Garden
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Tokyo
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Tokyo, officially Tokyo Metropolis, is the capital of Japan and one of its 47 prefectures. The Greater Tokyo Area is the most populous area in the world. It is the seat of the Emperor of Japan and the Japanese government, Tokyo is in the Kantō region on the southeastern side of the main island Honshu and includes the Izu Islands and Ogasawara Islands. Formerly known as Edo, it has been the de facto seat of government since 1603 when Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu made the city his headquarters. It officially became the capital after Emperor Meiji moved his seat to the city from the old capital of Kyoto in 1868, Tokyo Metropolis was formed in 1943 from the merger of the former Tokyo Prefecture and the city of Tokyo. The Tokyo metropolitan government administers the 23 Special Wards of Tokyo, the metropolitan government also administers 39 municipalities in the western part of the prefecture and the two outlying island chains. The population of the wards is over 9 million people. The prefecture is part of the worlds most populous metropolitan area with upwards of 37.8 million people, the city hosts 51 of the Fortune Global 500 companies, the highest number of any city in the world. Tokyo ranked third in the International Financial Centres Development IndexEdit, the city is also home to various television networks such as Fuji TV, Tokyo MX, TV Tokyo, TV Asahi, Nippon Television, NHK and the Tokyo Broadcasting System. Tokyo ranked first in the Global Economic Power Index and fourth in the Global Cities Index. The city is considered a world city – as listed by the GaWCs 2008 inventory – and in 2014. In 2015, Tokyo was named the Most Liveable City in the world by the magazine Monocle, the Michelin Guide has awarded Tokyo by far the most Michelin stars of any city in the world. Tokyo ranked first in the world in the Safe Cities Index, the 2016 edition of QS Best Student Cities ranked Tokyo as the 3rd-best city in the world to be a university student. Tokyo hosted the 1964 Summer Olympics, the 1979 G-7 summit, the 1986 G-7 summit, and the 1993 G-7 summit, and will host the 2020 Summer Olympics, Tokyo was originally known as Edo, which means estuary. During the early Meiji period, the city was also called Tōkei, some surviving official English documents use the spelling Tokei. However, this pronunciation is now obsolete, the name Tokyo was first suggested in 1813 in the book Kondō Hisaku, written by Satō Nobuhiro. When Ōkubo Toshimichi proposed the renaming to the government during the Meiji Restoration, according to Oda Kanshi, Tokyo was originally a small fishing village named Edo, in what was formerly part of the old Musashi Province. Edo was first fortified by the Edo clan, in the twelfth century
Tokyo
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Clockwise from top:
Nishi-Shinjuku,
Rainbow Bridge,
National Diet Building,
Shibuya,
Tokyo Skytree
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Satellite photo of Tokyo's 23 Special wards taken by
NASA 's
Landsat 7
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Tokugawa Ieyasu
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Ginza area in 1933
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Japan
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Japan is a sovereign island nation in Eastern Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies off the eastern coast of the Asia Mainland and stretches from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea, the kanji that make up Japans name mean sun origin. 日 can be read as ni and means sun while 本 can be read as hon, or pon, Japan is often referred to by the famous epithet Land of the Rising Sun in reference to its Japanese name. Japan is an archipelago consisting of about 6,852 islands. The four largest are Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu and Shikoku, the country is divided into 47 prefectures in eight regions. Hokkaido being the northernmost prefecture and Okinawa being the southernmost one, the population of 127 million is the worlds tenth largest. Japanese people make up 98. 5% of Japans total population, approximately 9.1 million people live in the city of Tokyo, the capital of Japan. Archaeological research indicates that Japan was inhabited as early as the Upper Paleolithic period, the first written mention of Japan is in Chinese history texts from the 1st century AD. Influence from other regions, mainly China, followed by periods of isolation, from the 12th century until 1868, Japan was ruled by successive feudal military shoguns who ruled in the name of the Emperor. Japan entered into a period of isolation in the early 17th century. The Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937 expanded into part of World War II in 1941, which came to an end in 1945 following the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japan is a member of the UN, the OECD, the G7, the G8, the country has the worlds third-largest economy by nominal GDP and the worlds fourth-largest economy by purchasing power parity. It is also the worlds fourth-largest exporter and fourth-largest importer, although Japan has officially renounced its right to declare war, it maintains a modern military with the worlds eighth-largest military budget, used for self-defense and peacekeeping roles. Japan is a country with a very high standard of living. Its population enjoys the highest life expectancy and the third lowest infant mortality rate in the world, in ancient China, Japan was called Wo 倭. It was mentioned in the third century Chinese historical text Records of the Three Kingdoms in the section for the Wei kingdom, Wa became disliked because it has the connotation of the character 矮, meaning dwarf. The 倭 kanji has been replaced with the homophone Wa, meaning harmony, the Japanese word for Japan is 日本, which is pronounced Nippon or Nihon and literally means the origin of the sun. The earliest record of the name Nihon appears in the Chinese historical records of the Tang dynasty, at the start of the seventh century, a delegation from Japan introduced their country as Nihon
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The
Golden Hall and
five-storey pagoda of
Hōryū-ji, among the oldest wooden buildings in the world,
National Treasures, and a
UNESCO World Heritage Site
Japan
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Samurai warriors face Mongols, during the
Mongol invasions of Japan. The
Kamikaze, two storms, are said to have saved Japan from Mongol fleets.
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Samurai could
kill a commoner for the slightest insult and were widely feared by the Japanese population.
Edo period, 1798
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Electronic music
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In general, a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound producing devices include the telharmonium, Hammond organ, purely electronic sound production can be achieved using devices such as the theremin, sound synthesizer, and computer. During the 1920s and 1930s, electronic instruments were introduced and the first compositions for instruments were composed. Musique concrète, created in Paris in 1948, was based on editing together recorded fragments of natural and industrial sounds, Music produced solely from electronic generators was first produced in Germany in 1953. Electronic music was created in Japan and the United States beginning in the 1950s. An important new development was the advent of computers for the purpose of composing music, algorithmic composition was first demonstrated in Australia in 1951. In America and Europe, live electronics were pioneered in the early 1960s, during the 1970s to early 1980s, the monophonic Minimoog became once the most widely used synthesizer at that time in both popular and electronic art music. In the 1980s, electronic music became dominant in popular music, with a greater reliance on synthesizers, and the adoption of programmable drum machines. Electronically produced music became prevalent in the domain by the 1990s. Contemporary electronic music includes many varieties and ranges from art music to popular forms such as electronic dance music. Today, pop music is most recognizable in its 4/4 form. At the turn of the 20th century, experimentation with emerging electronics led to the first electronic musical instruments and these initial inventions were not sold, but were instead used in demonstrations and public performances. The audiences were presented with reproductions of existing music instead of new compositions for the instruments, while some were considered novelties and produced simple tones, the Telharmonium accurately synthesized the sound of orchestral instruments. It achieved viable public interest and made progress into streaming music through telephone networks. Critics of musical conventions at the time saw promise in these developments, ferruccio Busoni encouraged the composition of microtonal music allowed for by electronic instruments. He predicted the use of machines in future music, writing the influential Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music, futurists such as Francesco Balilla Pratella and Luigi Russolo began composing music with acoustic noise to evoke the sound of machinery. They predicted expansions in timbre allowed for by electronics in the influential manifesto The Art of Noises, developments of the vacuum tube led to electronic instruments that were smaller, amplified, and more practical for performance. In particular, the theremin, ondes Martenot and trautonium were commercially produced by the early 1930s, from the late 1920s, the increased practicality of electronic instruments influenced composers such as Joseph Schillinger to adopt them
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Telharmonium,
Thaddeus Cahill, 1897
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Halim El-Dabh at a
Cleveland festival in 2009
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Karlheinz Stockhausen in the Electronic Music Studio of WDR, Cologne, in 1991
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Israeli composer
Josef Tal at the Electronic Music Studio in Jerusalem (c. 1965). On the right,
Hugh Le Caine 's sound
synthesizer the Special Purpose Tape Recorder.
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Pop music
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Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid 1950s. The terms popular music and pop music are used interchangeably, although the former describes all music that is popular. Pop and rock were synonymous terms until the late 1960s, when they were used in opposition from each other. Although pop music is seen as just the singles charts, it is not the sum of all chart music. Pop music is eclectic, and often borrows elements from other such as urban, dance, rock, Latin. Identifying factors include generally short to medium-length songs written in a format, as well as the common use of repeated choruses, melodic tunes. David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop music as a body of music which is distinguishable from popular, jazz, according to Pete Seeger, pop music is professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music. Although pop music is seen as just the singles charts, it is not the sum of all chart music, the music charts contain songs from a variety of sources, including classical, jazz, rock, and novelty songs. Pop music, as a genre, is seen as existing and developing separately, pop music continuously evolves along with the terms definition. The term pop song was first recorded as being used in 1926, Hatch and Millward indicate that many events in the history of recording in the 1920s can be seen as the birth of the modern pop music industry, including in country, blues and hillbilly music. The Oxford Dictionary of Music states that while pops earlier meaning meant concerts appealing to a wide audience. Since the late 1950s, however, pop has had the meaning of non-classical mus, usually in the form of songs, performed by such artists as the Beatles. Grove Music Online also states that, in the early 1960s pop music competed terminologically with beat music, while in the USA its coverage overlapped with that of rock and roll. From about 1967, the term was used in opposition to the term rock music. Whereas rock aspired to authenticity and an expansion of the possibilities of music, pop was more commercial, ephemeral. It is not driven by any significant ambition except profit and commercial reward, and, in musical terms, it is essentially conservative. It is, provided from on high rather than being made from below, pop is not a do-it-yourself music but is professionally produced and packaged. The beat and the melodies tend to be simple, with limited harmonic accompaniment, the lyrics of modern pop songs typically focus on simple themes – often love and romantic relationships – although there are notable exceptions
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The Oxford Dictionary of Music states that the term "pop" refers to music performed by such artists as
the Rolling Stones (pictured here in a 2006 performance)
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According to several sources,
MTV helped give rise to
pop stars such as
Michael Jackson and
Madonna; and Jackson and Madonna helped make MTV.
Pop music
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Rock music
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It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by blues, rhythm and blues and country music. Rock music also drew strongly on a number of genres such as electric blues and folk. Musically, rock has centered on the guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar. Typically, rock is song-based music usually with a 4/4 time signature using a verse-chorus form, like pop music, lyrics often stress romantic love but also address a wide variety of other themes that are frequently social or political in emphasis. Punk was an influence into the 1980s on the subsequent development of subgenres, including new wave, post-punk. From the 1990s alternative rock began to rock music and break through into the mainstream in the form of grunge, Britpop. Similarly, 1970s punk culture spawned the visually distinctive goth and emo subcultures and this trio of instruments has often been complemented by the inclusion of other instruments, particularly keyboards such as the piano, Hammond organ and synthesizers. The basic rock instrumentation was adapted from the blues band instrumentation. A group of musicians performing rock music is termed a rock band or rock group, Rock music is traditionally built on a foundation of simple unsyncopated rhythms in a 4/4 meter, with a repetitive snare drum back beat on beats two and four. Melodies are often derived from older musical modes, including the Dorian and Mixolydian, harmonies range from the common triad to parallel fourths and fifths and dissonant harmonic progressions. Critics have stressed the eclecticism and stylistic diversity of rock, because of its complex history and tendency to borrow from other musical and cultural forms, it has been argued that it is impossible to bind rock music to a rigidly delineated musical definition. These themes were inherited from a variety of sources, including the Tin Pan Alley pop tradition, folk music and rhythm, as a result, it has been seen as articulating the concerns of this group in both style and lyrics. Christgau, writing in 1972, said in spite of some exceptions, rock and roll usually implies an identification of male sexuality, according to Simon Frith rock was something more than pop, something more than rock and roll. Rock musicians combined an emphasis on skill and technique with the concept of art as artistic expression, original. The foundations of music are in rock and roll, which originated in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Its immediate origins lay in a melding of various musical genres of the time, including rhythm and blues and gospel music, with country. In 1951, Cleveland, Ohio disc jockey Alan Freed began playing rhythm and blues music for a multi-racial audience, debate surrounds which record should be considered the first rock and roll record. Other artists with rock and roll hits included Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis
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Red Hot Chili Peppers in 2006, showing a quartet lineup for a rock band (from left to right: bassist, lead vocalist, drummer, and guitarist).
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Elvis Presley in a promotion shot for
Jailhouse Rock in 1957
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Chubby Checker in 2005
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The Beach Boys performing in 1964
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Yellow Magic Orchestra
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Yellow Magic Orchestra is a Japanese electronic music band consisting of principal members Haruomi Hosono, Yukihiro Takahashi and Ryuichi Sakamoto. For their early albums and live performances, the band was often accompanied by music programmer Hideki Matsutake. Over the course of YMOs career, the continued to embrace new technologies, fusing them with classic pop forms. They are often considered influential innovators in the field of electronic music. They contributed to the development of synthpop, ambient house, electronica, electro, contemporary J-pop, house, techno, more broadly, their influence is evident across various genres of popular music, including electronic dance, ambient music, chiptune, game music, and pop music. Also around the time, the bands future fourth member Hideki Matsutake was the assistant for the internationally successful electronic musician Isao Tomita. Much of the methods and techniques developed by both Tomita and Matsutake during the early 1970s would later be employed by Yellow Magic Orchestra, Hosono invited both to work on his exotica-flavoured album Paraiso, which included electronic songs produced using various electronic equipment. The band was named Harry Hosono and the Yellow Magic Band as a satire of Japans obsession with magic at the time, and in late 1977 they began recording Paraiso. The three worked together again for the 1978 album Pacific, which included a version of the song Cosmic Surfin. Hosono also contributed to one of Sakamotos songs, Thousand Knives, Thousand Knives was also notable for its early use of the microprocessor-based Roland MC-8 Microcomposer music sequencer, with Matsutake as its music programmer for the album. Hosono, Sakamoto and Takahashi eventually collaborated again to form the Yellow Magic Orchestra, the album featured the use of computer technology which, according to Billboard, allowed the group to create a new sound that was not possible until then. This led to the YMO being offered a deal, at which point the three members decided the group would be given priority over their solo careers. For some time, YMO was the most popular band in Japan, a testament to the influence of YMO on fashion is how many middle-aged Japanese businessmen still have the Techno cut haircut, modelled after the group. Successful solo act Akiko Yano joined the band for its performances in the late 1970s and early 1980s. On the other hand, the YMO trio contributed to her own albums and became part of her live band, Solid State Survivor, released in 1979, was YMOs pinnacle recording in Japan, winning the 1980 Best Album Award in the Japan Record Awards. It featured English lyrics by Chris Mosdell, whose sci-fi themes often depicted a human condition alienated by dystopic futures, the song was later revised by Michael Jackson, who added new lyrics and has intended to include it in his album Thriller. Despite the approval of songwriter Sakamoto and lyricist Chris Mosdell, it was removed from the album due to legal issues with YMOs management. Solid State Survivor included several early computerized synth rock songs, including a cover version of Day Tripper by the Beatles
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YMO after playing a
2008 concert in London. From left to right:
Ryuichi Sakamoto,
Yukihiro Takahashi,
Haruomi Hosono
Yellow Magic Orchestra
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The
Roland TR-808 Rhythm Composer is one of the first programmable
drum machines, which since the mid-1980s has been used in more hit records than any other drum machine.
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Kazuhiko Kato (musician)
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Kazuhiko Katō, nicknamed Tonovan, was a Japanese record producer, songwriter and singer. He sometimes used the spelling of Kazuhiko Katoh, as a member of the Folk Crusaders, Kato launched his recording career in the mid-1960s. The group also starred in director Nagisa Oshimas 1968 film Kaette kita yopparai, after the breakup of Folk Crusaders in 1970, Kato gained success for his production works for other musicians, including Shigeru Izumiya, Mariya Takeuchi, and Takuro Yoshida. In particular, Sadistic Mika Band, the project he started with his first wife Mika Fukui. Their 1974 album entitled Kurofune is regarded as one of the most significant Japanese rock albums of the mid-1970s, the group was disbanded and reassembled again several times, with new vocalists such as Yumi Matsutoya, Karen Kirishima, and Kaela Kimura. As a composer, Kato created the theme song Ai Oboetei Imasu ka for the movie The Super Dimension Fortress Macross, released during the summer of 1984 in Japan. He later formed a team with his second wife, the late Kazumi Yasui. Most of the songs they wrote were recorded and produced by Kenji Sawada, in 1990, Kato teamed up with graphic artists, Haruhiko Shono and Kuniyoshi Kaneko, to provide the music for the award-winning Japanese computer game, Alice. In March 2008, Kato formed the rock band Vitamin-Q with Masami Tsuchiya, Gota Yashiki, Rei Ohara, Kato committed suicide by hanging on October 17,2009 at a hotel in Karuizawa, Kitasaku District, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. Police discovered a note in his hotel room. Kazuhiko Kato at the Internet Movie Database
Kazuhiko Kato (musician)
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Kazuhiko Kato on April 14, 2008 at Columbia Music Entertainment headquarters in Tokyo, being interviewer for Musicman.
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Ryuichi Sakamoto
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Ryuichi Sakamoto is a Japanese musician, composer, record producer, pianist, activist, writer, actor and dancer, based in Tokyo and New York. The band had hits such as Computer Game / Firecracker, Behind the Mask. He went on to more solo records, collaborate with many international artists. He composed music for the 1992 Barcelona Olympics opening ceremony, as a film composer, he has won an Academy Award, BAFTA, Grammy, and two Golden Globe Awards, and has received three BAFTA nominations and four Golden Globe nominations. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence marked his debut as a score composer and as an actor. His most successful work as a composer was The Last Emperor, after which he continued earning accolades composing for films such as The Sheltering Sky, Little Buddha. On occasion, Sakamoto has also worked on anime and video games, in 2009, he was awarded the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from Frances Ministry of Culture for his musical contributions. Sakamoto entered the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1970, earning a B. A. in music composition and an M. A. with special emphasis on both electronic and ethnic music. He was also trained in music and began experimenting with the electronic music equipment available at the university, including synthesizers such as the Buchla, Moog. One of Sakamotos classical influences was Claude Debussy, who he described as his hero and stated that “Asian music heavily influenced Debussy, so, the music goes around the world and comes full circle. ”In 1975, Sakamoto collaborated with percussionist Tsuchitori Toshiyuki to release Disappointment-Hateruma. After working as a musician with Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi in 1977. Known for their influence on electronic music, the group helped pioneer electronic genres such as electropop/technopop, synthpop, cyberpunk music, ambient house. The groups work has had an influence across genres, ranging from hip hop and techno to acid house. He also sang on songs, such as Kimi ni Mune Kyun. Sakamoto released his first solo album Thousand Knives of Ryūichi Sakamoto in mid-1978 with the help of Hideki Matsutake—Hosono also contributed to the song Thousand Knives, a version of the song Thousand Knives was released on the Yellow Magic Orchestras 1981 album BGM. This version was one of the earliest uses of the Roland TR-808 drum machine, for YMOs live performance of 1000 Knives in 1980, Riot in Lagos was later included in Playgroups compilation album Kings of Electro, alongside other significant electro compositions, such as Hashims Al-Naafyish. The 1980 release of Riot in Lagos was listed by The Guardian in 2011 as one of the 50 key events in the history of dance music, in 1982, Sakamoto worked on another collaboration with Sylvian, a single entitled Bamboo Houses/Bamboo Music. Sakamotos 1980 collaboration with Kiyoshiro Imawano, Ikenai Rouge Magic, topped the Oricon singles chart, in 1983, Sakamoto starred alongside David Bowie in director Nagisa Oshimas Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
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Ryuichi Sakamoto in 2010
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Ryuichi Sakamoto in December 2013
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Haruomi Hosono
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Haruomi Hosono, sometimes credited as Harry Hosono, is a Japanese musician, singer, songwriter and record producer. He is best known internationally as a member of the rock band Happy End, Hosono has also released many solo albums covering a variety of styles, including film soundtracks and a variety of electronic ambient albums. In 2003, Hosono was ranked by HMV Japan at number 44 on their list of the 100 most important Japanese pop acts, Hosono is the grandson of Masabumi Hosono, the only Japanese passenger and survivor of the sinking of RMS Titanic. Hosono first came to attention in Japan as the player of the psychedelic rock band Apryl Fool, alongside drummer Takashi Matsumoto. Hosono and Matsumoto then formed the folk rock group Happy End with Eiichi Ohtaki. One of the songs he composed for Happy End, Kaze wo Atsumete, after Happy End disbanded around 1974, Hosono worked with Suzuki and a loose association of artists making exotica-style music under the title Tin Pan Alley. The band was named Harry Hosono and the Yellow Magic Band and, having recorded in late 1977. The three worked together again for the 1978 electronic album Pacific, which included a version of the song Cosmic Surfin. He was one of the first producers to recognize the appeal of video game sounds, video Game Music was released in 1984 as an early example of a chiptune record and the first video game music album. That same year, he produced the theme song for Hayao Miyazakis popular anime film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Kaze no Tani no Naushika. In the late 80s and early 90s, the influence of music on his music deepened. He has produced a number of short-term band projects as a band member and his first post-YMO band was Friends of Earth. As with most of his projects he combines musical styles hes interested in, seemed to be a combination of funk and techno, and included a collaboration with James Brown and Maceo Parker for a remake of the song Sex Machine. Another notable band project was 1995s Love, Peace & Trance, members were Mimori Yusa, Miyako Koda, Haruomi Hosono and Mishio Ogawa. In the 1990s he started the Daisyworld label to release a range of experimental artists from Japan. Hosono collaborated on many of the releases, such as World Standard, a trip into Americana, HAT, a supergroup, the Orb also paid tribute with a series of remixes including the notorious Hope You Choke on Your Whalemeat. In 2002 Haruomi formed the duo Sketch Show with his YMO band-mate Yukihiro Takahashi and they have released two albums, one of which, Loophole, has received a UK release. When the third former YMO member, Ryuichi Sakamoto deepened his involvement it was decided to bill those collaborations as Human Audio Sponge, in the spring of 2007, his fellow YMO members and other artist paid tribute to Haruomi with a 2-disc album titled Tribute to Haruomi
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Performing with YMO in 2008
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Bill Nelson (musician)
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Bill Nelson is an English singer, guitarist, songwriter, producer, painter, video artist, writer and experimental musician. He rose to prominence as the songwriter, vocalist and guitarist of the rock group Be-Bop Deluxe. Nelson has been described as one of the most underrated guitarists of the art rock movement. In 2015, he was recognised with the Visionary award at the Progressive Music Awards, born to Jean & Walter Nelson, the latter being a musician, he also had a younger brother Ian and two children Elle and Elliot who were likewise involved in music. Elle and Elliot played in their own band Honeytone Cody between the late 1990s and 2014, Nelson was educated at the Wakefield College of Art, where he developed an interest in the work of poet and filmmaker Jean Cocteau. At this time, he was developing as a musician. His first record was a contribution on the album A-Austr, Musics from Holyground, with Brian Calvert, Chris Coombs, Ted Hepworth, Mike Levon. Levon recorded and produced the album appeared on Levons own Holyground Records label in 1970. After that, Nelson appeared in a more substantial role with Lightyears Away on Astral Navigations released in 1971. On one track, Yesterday, written by Coombs, Levon recorded Nelsons lead guitars in a rock style. This track also gave Nelson his first airplay by John Peel on his national BBC Radio 1 programme in the United Kingdom, Nelsons Holyground recordings were released in February 2001 as Electrotype. Nelson replaced the band members for Futurama in 1975. The lineup of Bill Nelson, Andrew Clark, Charlie Tumahai and Simon Fox recorded Sunburst Finish and Modern Music in 1976, in The Air Age in 1977 and their final studio album Drastic Plastic in 1978. However, Nelson found the structure of a permanent band constricting, an instrumental on Drastic Plastic performed by Nelson and Clark anticipated Nelsons later solo ambient work. Other tracks on that album required Fox record drum parts for use as repeating loop backing tracks in the studio and this sowed the seeds for later experimentation by Nelson. Playing guitar over pre-recorded backing tracks would bear fruit in later studio recordings, notably the Painting With Guitars series. In Autumn 1978, Nelson halted the Be-Bop Deluxe project, removed Tumahai and Fox from his working band. It remained unreleased in record company limbo, meanwhile, with his producer from Harvest John Leckie, Nelson did some production work for the band Skids, whose guitarist Stuart Adamson was an admirer of Nelsons musicianship
Bill Nelson (musician)
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[Toronto], 22 October 1977
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Anime
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Anime is Japanese hand-drawn or computer animation. The word is the pronunciation of animation in Japanese, where this term references all animation. Arguably, the abstract approach to the words meaning may open up the possibility of anime produced in countries other than Japan. For simplicity, many Westerners strictly view anime as a Japanese animation product, some scholars suggest defining anime as specifically or quintessentially Japanese may be related to a new form of orientalism. The earliest commercial Japanese animation dates to 1917, and Japanese anime production has continued to increase steadily. Anime is distributed theatrically, by way of television broadcasts, directly to home media and it is classified into numerous genres targeting diverse broad and niche audiences. Anime is an art form with distinctive production methods and techniques that have been adapted over time in response to emergent technologies. It consists of an ideal story-telling mechanism, combining art, characterization, cinematography. The production of anime focuses less on the animation of movement and more on the realism of settings as well as the use of effects, including panning, zooming. Being hand-drawn, anime is separated from reality by a gap of fiction that provides an ideal path for escapism that audiences can immerse themselves into with relative ease. Diverse art styles are used and character proportions and features can be quite varied, the anime industry consists of over 430 production studios, including major names like Studio Ghibli, Gainax, and Toei Animation. Despite comprising only a fraction of Japans domestic film market, anime makes up a majority of Japanese DVD sales and it has also seen international success after the rise of English-dubbed programming. This rise in popularity has resulted in non-Japanese productions using the anime art style. Anime is an art form, specifically animation, that all genres found in cinema. In Japanese, the term refers to all forms of animation from around the world. In English, anime is more used to denote a Japanese-style animated film or television entertainment or as a style of animation created in Japan. The etymology of the anime is disputed. The English term animation is written in Japanese katakana as アニメーション and is アニメ in its shortened form, in English, anime—when used as a common noun—normally functions as a mass noun
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A cel from
Namakura Gatana, the earliest surviving Japanese animated short made for cinemas, produced in 1917
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A frame from
Momotaro's Divine Sea Warriors (1944), the first
feature-length anime film
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Anime artists employ many distinct visual styles
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Nadia: Secret of the Blue Water
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Nadia, The Secret of Blue Water is a Japanese animated television series inspired by the works of Jules Verne, particularly Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and the exploits of Captain Nemo. The series was created by NHK, Toho and Korad, from a concept of Hayao Miyazaki, the series follows a young inventor named Jean and a former circus performer named Nadia, who wishes to return to her home in Africa. In its original Japanese broadcast, it aired from 1990 to 1991, running for 39 episodes, aDVs Anime Network has broadcast the series in the United States. Following the 2009 closure of ADV, Sentai Filmworks has re-licensed the anime series, set in an alternate universe 1889, the series centers on Nadia, a 14-year-old girl of unknown origins, and Jean, a young, warm-hearted French inventor. Early in the story, the two protagonists are chased by Grandis Granva, Sanson, and Hanson, a group of thieves who pursue Nadia for the blue jeweled pendant she possesses. This series origins date to the mid-1970s when Hayao Miyazaki was hired by Toho to develop a television series, one of these concepts was Around the World in 80 days by Sea, in which two orphan children pursued by villains team up with Captain Nemo and the Nautilus. It was never produced, but Toho retained the rights for the outline, while Miyazaki reused elements from his original concept in later projects like Future Boy Conan. Gainaxs initial involvement with the project occurred during a power struggle within the company. During a pitch with NHK, Group TAC requested character designs, hiroaki Inoue provided character designs and storyboards for the pitch that were provided by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto and Mahiro Maeda working in secret. After the conclusion of the pitch NHK chose to proceed with Inoues Nadia presentation, however the estimated cost of producing the show would cause Gainax to lose money. After a meeting at NHK where senior Gainax staff demanded Inoue be removed from the project or else they would withdraw, Sadamoto was originally assigned to be director but eventually dropped out, preferring to concentrate on design and animation. Hideaki Anno was chosen as his replacement, the series contains references and in-jokes to other anime works including Space Battleship Yamato, Macross and Time Bokan. Parts of the series were animated in Korea, at the completion of the series Gainax had lost 80 million yen on the project and had no rights to the series itself. However they were allowed rights to produce a game of the series, Group TAC later requested Gainax produce a Nadia movie and provided a 50 million yen advance. Hideaki Anno was convinced to direct it after declining the role due to the stress of making the series. Initial production work began and included designs by Sadamoto, however the company was unable to develop the project. The original advance had brought Gainaxs loss on the series down to 30 million yen but the advance was spent on early production and Gainax was unable to repay it. After the success of Neon Genesis Evangelion, Gainax returned the advance to Group TAC, minus some costs from Gainaxs involvement in providing designs, the series was broadcast on NHK between April 13,1990 and April 12,1991 and consisted of 39 episodes
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Kaela Kimura
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Kaela Kimura, born Rie Kaela Kimura, is a Japanese pop rock singer, songwriter, fashion model, and television presenter. Born in Adachi, Tokyo, Japan to a British father and Japanese mother and she went on to host the morning television show Saku Saku from April 14,2003 to March 31,2006. Kimura released her only single, titled Level 42, but it was later released as her major label debut single on June 23,2004. The song was used over the end credits of Saku Saku, on October 27, Kimura released her second single, Happiness. Which was followed by her album, Kaela, on December 8,2004. Following the release of her single, Rirura Riruha, on March 30,2005. The song was used in a series of Vodafone commercials in Japan and it sold over 100,000 copies, her best-selling single to date, and it also received a nomination for Best Video in the MTV Video Music Awards Japan 2005. Nearly seven months later, her single, Beat, was released. The song was composed by Tamio Okuda, the song had a more pop punk influence. On January 18,2006, Kimura released her fifth single, in March 2006, Circle was released and debuted at number two on the Oricon chart. She continued promoting Kit Kat with a single titled Circle. At this point, Kimura decided to leave the TV show, Saku Saku and her last appearance as host was on March 31,2006. That year, she also covered Roy Orbisons Oh, Pretty Woman and she appeared on the program in a cameo role as an airline passenger in episode 10. On June 28, a new single, Magic Music, was released, followed by the release of Tree Climbers three months later and her eighth single, Snowdome, was released in conjunction with her third studio album, Scratch, on February 7,2007. The song Snowdome was composed by Japanese pop punk band Beat Crusaders, the album Scratch topped the Oricon Albums Chart for two weeks and sold over 300,000 copies. Kimuras ninth single, Samantha, was released on July 18,2007, the song was inspired by Samantha Stephens, the protagonist from the ABC TV series, Bewitched, and the music video features Hanna-Barbera designs. In September, a second DVD from her Scratch Tour was released, followed by her single, Yellow. She released her single, Jasper, a dance song very different from her previous works
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Saravah!
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Saravah. is Yukihiro Takahashis first solo album. Its named after Pierre Barouhs record label of the same name, Takahashi conceived the album during his tenure on The Sadistics, he based his music on French pop music, this influence would later show up on early Yellow Magic Orchestra material. Besides Takahashi, this album features performances by members of The Sadistics, YMO, due to the album being made before YMO members started using computers, Sakamoto got involved in arranging the music, all the keyboard parts on the album are dubbed instead of sequenced. All tracks written by Yukihiro Takahashi, except where noted, all song arrangements and production by Takahashi and Ryuichi Sakamoto. at Discogs
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Chris Mosdell
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Chris Mosdell is a British lyricist, poet, author, composer, vocalist and illustrator, based in Tokyo, Japan, and New York City, USA. He has collaborated with an array of musicians and artists, though he is especially known for his work with Yellow Magic Orchestra. As Mozz, Mosdell has also released a series of award-winning childrens books, arriving in Japan he became a script-writer for NHK, numerous radio programs, a reporter for Radio Free Europe, and a reader of the BBC World Service radio news. In 1977, a series of Mosdells poems, published in the Japan Times, came to the attention of Yukihiro Takahashi, Takahashi asked to use the poems as the lyrical base for pop singer Rajie, whose album he was producing. Shortly afterward, Sadistic Mika Band disbanded, and some of the members, including Takahashi. Mosdell wrote the lyrics to the Crazy Kimono Kids and Tokyo Taste for their Sadistics album, during this time Mosdell wrote chart-topping lyrics for other artists, including, among many others, Sandii and the Sunsetz, Sheena & The Rokkets, and Imitation. The breadth of Mosdells lyrical experimentation during this period led to his first solo recording and this resulted in the 1982 album Equasian, with its use of global ethnic sounds pre-dating the popularity of world music. It was also the first of Mosdells efforts employing his visual lyrical and compositional technique, VISIC, Equasian was showcased as an audio-visual/multimedia experience through live performances and a VISIC Exhibition at the Gallery Harajuku in Tokyo. For all its experimentation and relative obscurity, the relevance and popularity has continued up through recent times, being reissued as a gate-fold. During a period of increasing international collaborations, Mosdell travelled to Los Angeles to work with pop singer Boy George. They worked together on two single cuts for a Japanese shoju television commercial that, although released for a few weeks, was withdrawn after the singers brush with heroin. In the same city, pop singer Michael Jackson recorded a cover of YMOs Behind the Mask for inclusion on his 1982 Thriller album, Mosdell has said of the collaboration, when Michael Jackson took it, it made it into a love song about a woman. It was a different premise to me, I was talking about a very impersonal, socially controlled society, a future technological era. But hey, I let him have that one, the Mosdell-Sakamoto-Jackson version was later picked up by Jacksons keyboardist Greg Phillinganes for his 1984 album Pulse, and by Eric Clapton, for his August album, released in 1986. “Sticky Music, was another chart success for Mosdell, performed by Sandii. His lyrics to date were published in Ink Music, The Collected Lyrics of Chris Mosdell, during this time he again teamed up with Yukihiro Takahashi to write songs for the albums Ego and Broadcast from Heaven. In 2003 Sarah Brightman recorded the song When Firebirds Sing, an operatic opus set in ancient Japan, the song was commissioned for the popular PlayStation 2 software Tengai Makyo III. In 2008 Chris teamed up with long-time collaborator Kazuhiko Kato for a new band, Vitamin Q
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Toshiba-EMI
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EMI Music Japan Inc. was one of Japans leading music companies. It became a wholly owned subsidiary of British music company EMI Group Ltd. in June 30,2007 after Toshiba sold off its previous 45% stake and its CEO and president was Kazuhiko Koike. When EMI Music Japan was trading as Toshiba-EMI, it was involved with the production of anime, on April 1,2013, the company became defunct, following its absorption into Universal Music Japan as a sublabel under the name EMI Records Japan. The company was founded on October 1,1960, as Toshiba Musical Industries, from 1962, it licensed Columbia titles for release in Japan. After an injection of capital by Capitol EMI, EMI acquired 50% of the company in October 1973, on October 3,1994, the equity ratio of the company was changed, in which EMI obtained 55% with Toshiba owning the remaining 45%. On June 30,2007, Toshiba Corporation sold the remaining 45% stake in the company to EMI, the name was then changed to EMI Music Japan, reflecting Toshibas divestiture from the business. On April 1,2013, EMI Music Japan was officially absorbed into Universal Music Japan, the label continued to use the TOCT catalog code until October 2013, when it started to use the TYCT catalog code. The official website has shut down as of October 23,2013. After the dissolution and absorption, some of the former EMI staffs, then-executive producer San-e Ichii has been the managing director of Japan Content Expansion Department. Kazuhiko Koike has stepped down from his position as CEO by the end of 2013, nine months after the merger and he was replaced by Naoshi Fujikura. EMI Music Japans present slogan is Music for all, All for music, TM Factory Unlimited Records List of record labels Youmex Official website— 50th Anniversary of EMI Music Japan website—
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Norwegian Wood (film)
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Norwegian Wood is a 2010 Japanese drama film directed by Tran Anh Hung, based on Haruki Murakamis novel of the same name. The film was released in Japan on 11 December 2010, Toru Watanabe is a quiet and serious young man in 1960s Tokyo whose personal life is in tumult, having lost his best friend Kizuki after he inexplicably commits suicide. Seeking an escape, Toru enters a university in Tokyo, by chance, during a walk in a park, Toru meets Kizukis ex-girlfriend Naoko, and they grow close. Naoko continues to be devastated by the loss of Kizuki and spirals into a deep depression, Toru sleeps with Naoko on her 20th birthday. Shortly afterwards, Naoko withdraws from the world and leaves for a sanitarium in a remote forest setting near Kyoto, Toru is anguished by the situation, as he still has deep feelings for Naoko, but she is unable to reciprocate. He also lives with the influence of death everywhere, while Naoko feels as if some part of her has been permanently lost. The story then follows Toru as he is torn between the two women in his life, and choosing between his past and his future and it was then subsequently released in Japanese cinemas on 11 December 2010. In the UK, it was released on 11 March 2011, while in Russia, in the US, the film had a limited release on 6 January 2012 in New York City and Washington D. C. In Canada, the film was released on 2 March 2012, stephen Holden of The New York Times wrote that the film registers less as a coherent narrative than as a tortuous reverie steeped in mournful yearning. The score for the soundtracks was composed by Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood. Track list, Official website Japan Official Site Official website UK Official Site Norwegian Wood at the Internet Movie Database Norwegian Wood at Rotten Tomatoes
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Anime News Network
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Additionally, it sometimes features similar happenings throughout the world. Founded in July 1998 by Justin Sevakis, the claims to be the leading English-language source for news and information about anime. The site operated, until 2008 the magazine Protoculture Addicts, the website was founded by Justin Sevakis in July 1998. In May 2000, current CEO Christopher Macdonald joined the editorial staff. In January 2007, ANN launched a version for Australian audiences. On July 4,2008, ANN launched its platform with a library of anime trailers as well as its own news show ANNtv. In the fall of 2004, the staff at ANN became formally involved with the anime magazine Protoculture Addicts. On September 7,2004, the Sci Fi Channel online newsletter Sci Fi Weekly named the site the Web Site of the Week. The website maintains a listing of anime and manga titles, as well as people and companies involved in the production of those titles, staff members of ANN also publish their own blogs hosted on the site. ANN also hosts forums, and includes threads to accompany each news item for purposes of discussion, anime News Network hosts an IRC channel on the WorldIRC network, #animenewsnetwork
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AllMusic
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AllMusic is an online music guide service website. It was launched in 1991 by All Media Guide which later became All Media Network, AllMusic was launched in 1991 by Michael Erlewine of All Media Guide. The aim was to discographic information on every artist whos made a record since Enrico Caruso gave the industry its first big boost and its first reference book was published the following year. When first released onto the Internet, AMG predated the World Wide Web and was first available as a Gopher site, the AMG consumer web properties AllMusic. com, AllMovie. com and AllGame. com were sold by Rovi in July 2013 to All Media Network, LLC. All Media Network, LLC. was formed by the founders of SideReel. com. The following are contributors to AllMusic, as of this date, All Media Network also produced the AllMusic guide series that includes the AllMusic Guide to Rock, the All Music Guide to Jazz and the All Music Guide to the Blues. Vladimir Bogdanov is the president of the series, in August 2007, PC Magazine included AllMusic in its Top 100 Classic Websites list. All Media Network AllGame AllMovie SideReel All Music Guide to the Blues All Music Guide to Jazz Stephen Thomas Erlewine Official website
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Yellow Magic Orchestra (album)
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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 Magic Band. Both versions would later be re-issued in 2003 as a double-disc format, the album was an early example of synthpop, a genre that the band helped pioneer. It was also as an example of a computer-themed album, and contributed to the development of electro, hip hop, techno, bleep techno. The album sold 250,000 copies in Japan and entered the Billboard 200 and its most successful single was Computer Game / Firecracker, which sold over 400,000 records in the United States and was a top 20 hit in the United Kingdom. The album was intended to be a project for producer and bass player Haruomi Hosono. The album would eventually be called Yellow Magic Orchestra, as a satire of Japans obsession with magic at the time. The project proved highly popular, culminating in a career for the three musicians, one that would last until 1983, before successful solo careers and reunions over the decades to come and they began recording the album in July 1978 at a Shibaura studio in Tokyo. It was also the earliest known popular music album to use the Roland MC-8 Microcomposer, Roland called the MC-8 a computer music composer and it was the first stand-alone microprocessor-based music sequencer. At the time, Billboard noted that the use of such computer-based technology in conjunction with synthesizers allowed Yellow Magic Orchestra to create new sounds that were not possible until then. The band later described both the MC-8 and its programmer Hideki Matsutake as a factor in both their music production and live performances. Besides the electronic equipment, the acoustic instruments used in the album were a Steinway piano. The album was an example of synthpop, a genre that Yellow Magic Orchestra helped pioneer. It was also an example of a computer-themed album, predating Kraftwerks Computer World by three years. The song also samples the opening used in the arcade game Gun Fight. Both Circus and Space Invaders, along several other popular arcade video games, were also featured in the promotional film for Tong Poo. The titles for songs on the B-side are based on Jean-Luc Godard film names. “Tong Poo” is the Cantonese title for Le Vent dest, “La Femme Chinoise” is La Chinoise with “femme” added after the feminine definite article “la. ”Finally, “Mad Pierrot” is an English translation of 気狂いピエロ, the title under which Pierrot le fou was released in Japan. The album was first released in Japan in 1978 and it was released in the US on 30 May 1979 by A&M Records on the Horizon label with a new mix by Al Schmitt, new cover art and a slightly different track listing
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Solid State Survivor
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Solid State Survivor is the second album by Japanese electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra, released in 1979. Solid State Survivor is only one of a handful of YMO albums in which the titles do not have a Japanese equivalent. The album was an example of synthpop, a genre that the band helped pioneer alongside their earlier album Yellow Magic Orchestra. Solid State Survivor won the Best Album Award at the 22nd Japan Record Awards, several songs from the album have continued to be widely covered and sampled. The album is known for Behind the Mask, which YMO had first produced in 1978 for a Seiko quartz wristwatch commercial. The song has had numerous cover versions produced by other artists, alongside Quincy Jones, Jackson produced a slightly more dance-funk version of the techno classic with additional lyrics, originally intended for his best-selling album Thriller. Despite the approval of songwriter Sakamoto and lyricist Chris Mosdell, it was removed from the Thriller album due to legal issues with Yellow Magic Orchestras management. Brian Eno also produced a remix of YMOs original version in 1992, Technopolis was later sampled in Robert Hoods Rhythm from his debut minimal techno album Minimal Nation, and in Electric Youths Replay. Techno-pop artist Aira Mitsuki pays homage to this track with her single Sayonara Technopolis, the albums title song Solid State Survivor is a new wave synth rock song. This was YMOs most successful album in Japan and it was the best selling album in the Oricon LP Chart for 1980, beating Chiharu Matsuyamas Kishōtenketsu - Godiegos Magic Monkey was best seller for 1979. In 1980 the album won a Best Album Award in the 22nd Japan Record Awards, the album went on to sell two million records worldwide
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BGM (album)
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BGM is the fourth studio album by Yellow Magic Orchestra, released on March 21,1981. The title stands for Background music and this album was produced by Haruomi Hosono. YMO was the first band to use the Roland TR-808 Rhythm Composer, one of the first programmable drum machines, in early 1981, they released BGM, as their first studio album recorded with the Roland MC-4 Microcomposer and TR-808. Alfa Records, YMO’s record company, had installed a 3M 32-track digital recorder in its studio shortly before YMO started recording BGM, unfortunately, no known working samples of the 3M recorder exist in Japan today, making it quite difficult to play the master tape. One of the earliest uses of the TR-808 for a performance was by Yellow Magic Orchestra in 1980 for the song 1000 Knives. The hand-clap sound was later publicized by YMOs innovative album BGM, used again on 1000 Knives and in Music Plans, peter Barakan debuts as YMO’s co-lyricist. Another song, Rap Phenomena was an attempt at electronic rap. Loom is a re-working of The Infinite Space Octave by YMO computer programmer Hideki Matsutake, a similar sound was previously used by YMO members Haruomi Hosono and Ryuichi Sakamoto for their 1978 album Cochin Moon. Like most YMO albums, song titles were printed in both Japanese and English, as listed below, 来たるべきもの more accurately translates to What should come. When released in 1981, the reception was positive
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Technodelic
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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 and it is considered the first released album to feature mostly samples and loops, influencing the heavy use of sampling and looping in popular music. Yellow Magic Orchestras approach to sampling music was a precursor to the approach of constructing music by cutting fragments of sounds. Notable samples used include Indonesian kecak chanting, gamelan and short looped vocals for percussion in Seoul Music, the album also features use of speech through a two-way radio, a prepared piano, Prophet-5 synthesizers, and a TR-808 drum machine. In another departure from previous albums, Haruomi Hosono has a prominent role playing the bass guitar as opposed to playing bass lines on synthesizers. As with many of YMOs releases, song titles are printed in both Japanese and English, for Seoul Music, the kanji 京城 are used, referring to Gyeongseong, the name of Seoul when Korea was under Japanese rule. Neue Tanz is German for New Dance, while Taisō is Japanese for gymnastics or calisthenics
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Naughty Boys
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Naughty Boys is the sixth album by Yellow Magic Orchestra, recorded from October 1982 to March 1983, and released on May 24,1983. Naughty Boys was their final album to top the Oricon charts, after that, no technopop artist was able to reach No.1 until Perfumes 2008 album Game. Kimi ni Mune Kyun also became the highest charting single by a technopop artist on the Oricon charts,2, a record the song retained until Perfumes Love the World debuted at No.1 in 2008. Ongaku was reportedly written by Ryuichi Sakamoto for his then-three-year-old daughter, 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 artists, including The Human League, Jan Linton in 1992-3, Asako Toki. Andrew Stout of SF Weekly has praised the album as sensuous musique concrète perfected, a remix album, Naughty Boys Instrumental, was released in July 1983 by record label Alfa. It contained nearly the entire Naughty Boys album as instrumental tracks in a different running order, as well as the b-side to Kimi ni. Chaos Panic, and the instrumental version of Youve Got to Help Yourself. Youve Got to Help Yourselfs vocal version is featured on Service. Naughty Boys Instrumental featured additional synthesizers imitating the vocal lines, as well as new embellishments, several tracks featured sonically updated percussion tracks, while Ongaku featured an acoustic piano soloing over the piece. Naughty Boys Instrumental was re-released in 2004 in a double disc package alongside Naughty Boys, as on some other YMO albums, song titles are provided in both Japanese and English, and some have different translations all together, 君に、胸キュン。 translates to My Heart Beats for You. Though Expected Way and Expecting Rivers are the translations, the Japanese titles translate to Desired path and River of hope. 以心電信 translates to Telegraph of the Heart
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Service (album)
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Service was the sixth and, at the time, final studio album by Yellow Magic Orchestra. The band dissolved the year after a world tour, but would later reform in 1993 for a one-off reunion album. Each member would continue their already established solo careers, while Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi also formed the band Sketch Show, like ×∞Multiplies, it contains a mixture of YMO songs and comedy sketches performed by Super Eccentric Theater, or S. E. T. The first Dutch/German edition of the album omitted the sketches, effectively cutting the albums length in half, in 1999, the album was remastered under Hosonos supervision with new liner notes provided by lyricist Peter Barakan. Service features Youve Got to Help Yourself, which was featured in instrumental form on the previous album. Track featured a sample of Casiopeas song Time Limit. 以心電信 more accurately transliterates to Telegraph from the heart
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