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TECHNODON ALBUM INFO

Technodon album cover Artist: Yellow Magic Orchestra
Album: Technodon
Release Date: 26 May 1993
''Technodon'' is the seventh and final studio album to date by Yellow Magic Orchestra and released in 1993, a decade after the band's original breakup. Because the name Yellow Magic Orchestra was owned by former record label Alfa Records, the band were forced to release the album under the name <b><s>YMO</s></b>. For the tour that followed, they were billed as <b>Not YMO</b>. Future releases by the band would be made under the names Human Audio Sponge and HASYMO.

The album's title has several interpretations: "don" can be read as "飩" and would therefore mean "Bowl of Techno", or as the onomatopoeia "ドン”, making the title "Explosion of Techno"; "don" could also be read as the Italian language|Italian Don (honorific)|honorific term, rendering the title as "Lord(s) of Techno".

At the time of recording, Haruomi Hosono and Ryuichi Sakamoto were incorporating a lot of world music elements into their sound, which is still evident on ''Technodon''; however, the sound is pared down, revealing simple technopop arrangements. Yukihiro Takahashi mainly used drum machines for the record as opposed to a drum kit. Like many artists at the time, YMO faced many potential legal troubles due to copyrights associated with sampled sounds from other artist's work. In this enviroment, using samp

Track list:

  1. Be a Superman
  2. Nanga Def?
  3. Floating Away
  4. Dolphinicity
  5. Hi-tech Hippies
  6. I Tre Merli
  7. Nostalgia
  8. Silence of Time
  9. Waterford
  10. O.K.
  11. Chance
  12. Pocketful of Rainbows

Yellow Magic Orchestra top 10 albums

  1. Solid State Survivor
  2. Yellow Magic Orchestra
  3. UCYMO (Ultimate Collection of Yellow Magic Orchestra) (Disc 1)
  4. UCYMO (Ultimate Collection of Yellow Magic Orchestra) (Disc 2)
  5. Technodelic
  6. Ymo Best Selection
  7. BGM
  8. Technodon Remixes II
  9. Technodon
  10. Public Presssure
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