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YELLOW MAGIC ORCHESTRA

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Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO) is a Japanese electropop band, formed in 1978. They were ranked No.2 in a list of Japan's top 100 musicians by HMV. <ref>[http://www.hmv.co.jp/news/newsDetail.asp?newsnum=311040089 éŸ³æ¥½ æƒ…å ±ãƒ‹ãƒ¥ãƒ¼ã‚¹/Top 100 Japanese pops Artists - No.2/HMV]</ref>

The band is renowned as having pioneered the Synthpop and Electropop music genres, along with Germany's Kraftwerk.
The principal members are Haruomi Hosono|Haruomi "Harry" Hosono (bass guitar|bass, Keyboard instrument|keyboards), Yukihiro Takahashi (drum kit|drums and percussion, vocals|lead vocals) and Ryuichi Sakamoto (Keyboard instrument|keyboards).
Biography
Formation & early years
The band was originally conceived as a one-off 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.

Sakamoto first worked with Hosono as a member of his live band in 1976, while Takahashi recruited Sakamoto to produce his debut solo recording in '77 following the split of the Sadistic Mika B... read all