RFI: Yellow Magic Orchestra

It's like finding out that Dark Side Of The Moon is actually called Dark Slide Of The Moon or something.

Brimstead, I just had a look on Ebay because some guy was selling the same poster there for quite a while and they weren't expensive, but not at the minute unfortunately.

one joy of "multiplies" is that i can (mostly) understand the japanese sketches and they're fucking hilarious

It's their Neu2

holy shit, also thought this was "X∞Multiples"!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00rHV1ZGrlw

this should be on all the radios all the time

I wonder if the cover art sort of leads the mind, in this case?

The Neu! 2 comparison is sort of spot on - it's somewhere between a full-length and an EP, and it occupies a very strange space in my record collection. There isn't quite anything else like it. I still find all the sketches hilarious in their absurdity.

speaking of the xp'd vid has anyone heard zaine griff's music? figures has pretty great cover art (by peter saville):

http://s.pixogs.com/image/R-1634587-1233568008.jpeg

kate bush, yuki takahashi and hans zimmer (meh) are listed as personnel. it must've been crazy hyped at the time, right?

oops image didn't link

http://img.sharedmp3.net/files/pics/8130/8129058/img_1_pr.jpg

I subscribe to this Facebook group called YMO Stream, it is mainly Japanese dudes in their late Forties posting up loads of ephemera, tour pics, programs, tickets, pics of Tape bootlegs, it's fantastic.

http://i58.tinypic.com/2nh24o1.jpg

http://i59.tinypic.com/10ht5dv.jpg

that is amazing

whenever i hear the skits on that record i think of the skits on "the chronic."

also, I need to join that FB group. i can never get enough YMO.

"would you care for a cigarette"
"oh no thank you, i've stopped smoking"
"ah, that's good for your health"

XP - It's my favourite group, some person takes a grainy photo of say 12 of Yuki's solo seven inch singles all laid out and i'm in heaven.

that reminds me, some guy at a record store got a bunch of YMO-related singles in and offered them to me, and i totally forgot to take him up on it. i wonder if they're still available...

i don't mean he offered them for free, of course. just asked if i wanted them before he put them out on the floor.

ah, you should find out!

I joined the FB group. It's pretty excellent. I have YT as a friend and once even tried chatting with him. He's very friendly, but his English isn't so hot. Most fun: getting game requests from Keiichi Suzuki. Only time i don't mind getting them :)

just gonna https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0Ytic5OMfg

So on the YMO Facebook group mentioned upthread a Japanese gentleman posts a pic of a B2 Unit bootleg tape he's listening to, I post a comment 'Wow, would love to hear that', guy reacts in the positive, then a few days later I get a PM with a link to a FLAC file of the concert, how great is that?

really cool!

um... YSI?

yeah.... YSI indeed.

Sure, are both yr ILX emails working?

yep, thanks!!

no :(

If you paste an address up I'll send you a link.

make sure you send it to dog✧✧✧@gm✧✧✧.c✧✧ first

awww, titties

dogfap (at)
gmail (dot)
com

Okay, that's been sent.

yes!! thank you!!

My webmail works, I think. Hi.

zippyshare? sendspace?

thank you!

XP - It's a wetransfer d/l link that I created, I'm happy to paste it up if it won't upset any Mods.

or if you ilx msg me an email is workin for ya, I can fwd it along, amateurist

oh just post the wetransfer link, it is not a commercial release, just an important one

was just listening to 'Esperanto' this morning and was planning on moving B2 onto a playlist

but before I move it over, I'm going to rip 'Warhead' from youtube and create a version that has all the tracks from both the US and Japanese versions, I am sick of not hearing 'Warhead' after 'E3A'

Done, it's really good!

http://we.tl/w8YrNvYdTC

'LIVE NHK'

one weird mainstream! thank you

So true, I like to envisage young dudes with Sakamoto hair and Popeye clothes, hovering over their FM receivers, stressing out over the signal strength.

awesome

so, can anyone read kanji? curious about the first credit, looks like -

somebody / ryuichi sakamoto & b2 unit - live

Found this on a blog, if it helps.

Ryuichi Sakamoto (syn, p) / Hajime Tachibana (g, sax) / Sawamura Mitsuru (sax)
Robin Thompson (Sax) / Nagata Donbei (b) / Saeko Suzuki (DS) 1.Foto Musik 2.Demo # 4 (Replica) 3.The Arrangement 4.Happy End 5.Thatness and Thereness 6.Demo # 6 7.H 8.Robin's Eye 9.Piano Pillows 10. monkey and snow and garbage children 11.Dance 12.Epilogue 13.In E

oh, nice

this is great btw!!

Done, it's really good!

http://we.tl/w8YrNvYdTC

― MaresNest, Tuesday, December 23, 2014 1:05 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

thanks, dude!

btw anyone else heard sakamoto's first LP.... from before YMO and his proper solo work, it's a collaboration with Toshiyuki Tsuchitori, basically a free-improv thing (very "difficult listening") with some japanese folk inflections. not a side of sakamoto that really showed up again, even though this guy has some of the widest /range/ of any musician of the last 50 years. anyway the album is called "Disappointment-Hateruma" and it can be found on certain websites that will remain nameless.

https://whatimg.com/i/rZliIk.jpg

at this point i'm not sure there is a genre that the YMO boys didn't at least dabble in. if someone uncovered an electro-polka album by hosono from 1973 i wouldn't really be surprised.

haven't heard that particular record (yet) but the seemingly endless amount of records that have some kinda ymo connection + the variety of styles you mentioned really does make it all feel more than a scene and more like another universe. so rewarding to get caught up in.

this b-2 unit bootleg is actually a great example too. the live arrangements of these familiar tracks feel very RIO prog at times, which I never heard much of on other ymo-affiliated records. so cool.

Happy Holidays my ILX bredren :) Enjoy!

http://we.tl/9VJZKrTNY9