Tag Archive: Yellow Magic Orchestra

Yellow Magic Orchestra – After Service (1984) {2019, Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip}
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Label: Sony Music Direct / GT Music | Japan | Cat#: MHCL 10120~1 | Genre: Synth-pop

After Service is the second live album by Yellow Magic Orchestra, directly following their (at the time) final studio album, Service. The album features former ABC member David Palmer on additional drums. A film version was released alongside the album. After Service features “Kageki na Shukujo” (過激な淑女 “Radical Lady”), which was released in a studio version as a single, but does not feature on any of their albums (compilations excepted).Read More

Yellow Magic Orchestra – Service (1983) {2019, Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip}
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Label: Sony Music Direct / GT Music | Japan | Cat#: MHCL 10119 | Genre: Synth-Pop

Service was the seventh and, at the time, final studio album by Yellow Magic Orchestra. The band dissolved the following year after a world tour, but would later reform in 1993 for a one-off reunion album, Technodon. 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 album’s length in half. In 1999, the album was remastered under Hosono’s supervision with new liner notes provided by lyricist Peter Barakan.Read More

Yellow Magic Orchestra – Naughty Boys (1983) {2019, Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip}
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Label: Sony Music Direct / GT Music | Japan | Cat#: MHCL 10117~8 | Genre: Synth-pop

Posturing themselves as the synth-pop stars they already were (though only strictly speaking), Naughty Boys is more of a landmark for Japanese pop than electronic music. Beginning with the synth-pop hit “Kimi Ni Mune Kyun” (featuring vocals just as accomplished as its production), the album clearly sounds different; previous YMO material had never sounded explicitly like Asian pop music before. That said, it’s still a solid album of commercial synth-pop and showed the group was still cultivating their Western connections, with help from guitarist Bill Nelson.Read More

Yellow Magic Orchestra – Technodelic (1981) {2019, Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip}
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Label: GT Music | Japan | Cat#: MHCL 10113 | Genre: Synth-pop

Widening their vision of synth-pop to include the darker strains of urban/R&B as well as a few vocals indebted to Roxy Music, 1981’s Technodelic proved a high-quality album that showed Yellow Magic Orchestra had the talent and inspiration to grow beyond Kraftwerk-derived electronic pop heavy on the novelty but a bit light on bending genres.Read More

Yellow Magic Orchestra – BGM (1981) {2019, Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip}
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Label: GT Music | Japan | Cat#: MHCL 10112 | Genre: Synth-Pop

BGM stands for “background music,” and one could be mistaken for thinking that this is an album of ambient-sounding tracks. Instead, 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. Read More

Yellow Magic Orchestra – X∞Multiplies (1980) {2019, Japanese Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip}
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Label: Sony Music Direct | USA | Cat#: MHCL 10111 | Genre: Synth-Pop

Xoo Multiplies is a bizarre album filled with singalong pop songs, a few interludes including commercial jingles and ad-men pitches, and no less than two versions of the Drells’ chestnut “Tighten Up.” There are a few solid electronic tunes (“Nice Age,” “Citizens of Science”) amid the chaos, plus instrumental versions of “Chaos Panic” and “Lotus Love” added to the CD issue.Read More

Yellow Magic Orchestra – Public Pressure (1980) {2019, Japanese Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip}
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Label: Sony Music Direct | Japan | Cat#: MHCL 10110 | Genre: Synth Pop

Public Pressure is Yellow Magic Orchestra’s first live album, released on February 21, 1980. It was their second number-one album in Japan, setting a record of 250,000 copies sold within two weeks of release.Read More