Track list: 1. Several of the segues on the second side of the album were edited differently, while "Bridge over Troubled Music" was given an additional electric piano solo over top of the introductory percussion. Country: Japan. [15], The song was popular with the emerging hip hop community, which appreciated the new electronic sounds, and in the Bronx, where it was later sampled by pioneering hip hop artist Afrika Bambaataa in his famous 1983 debut album Death Mix (1983). Euphonium, episode 5, the song "Rydeen" is played by Kitauji highschool's orchestra. [24] Following the release of the album Yellow Magic Orchestra, a live date at the Roppongi Pit Inn was seen by executives of A&M Records of the USA who were in the process of setting up a partnership deal with Alfa Records. 1978 studio album by Yellow Magic Orchestra, A sample of "Computer Game", which was combined with "Firecracker" into a hit single called "Computer Game". They also influenced the New Romantic movement, including British bands Duran Duran and Japan, whose member Steve Jansenwas influenced by drummer Takahashi, whi… The album was first released in Japan in 1978. Buy the album for $9.90. [13] Its most successful single was "Computer Game / Firecracker", which sold over 400,000 records in the United States[14] and was a top 20 hit in the United Kingdom.[15]. The anime series Cowboy Bebop has a character named Mad Pierrot, and Mad Pierrot's other alias is "Tongpu". The group also performed "Firecracker" and "Tighten Up" live on the Soul Train television show. La Femme Chinoise 3. [21][23] Roland called the MC-8 a "computer music composer" and it was the first stand-alone microprocessor-based music sequencer. It was later sampled by artists such as, "Yellow Magic Orchestra – Yellow Magic Orchestra", "Yellow Magic Orchestra, Yellow Magic Orchestra", "Yellow Magic Orchestra on Kraftwerk and How to Write a Melody During a Cultural Revolution", "Artists and producers strive for inroads overseas", "Yellow Magic Orchestra: Billboard Albums", "Computer Game (Theme From 'the Invaders')", "Back to the future: Yellow Magic Orchestra helped usher in electronica – and they may just have invented hip-hop, too", "Yellow Magic Orchestra: The Pre-MIDI Technology Behind Their Anthems", "Yellow Magic Orchestra: Billboard Singles", "Nothin' Like the Reel Thing: Soundtrack & Film Score News", "Mariah 'Ripped Off' Twice on Same Record", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yellow_Magic_Orchestra_(album)&oldid=986396865, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Shunsuke Miyasumi – recording coordinator, Minako Yoshida – vocals on "Yellow Magic (Tong Poo)", This page was last edited on 31 October 2020, at 16:10. Featured peformers: Ryuichi Sakamoto (keyboards, electronics, percussion, aka_text orchestration role_id 1378.aka_text), 細野晴臣 [Haruomi Hosono] (bass, electronics, keyboards, aka_text arrangements role_id 1013.aka_text, producer), 高橋幸宏 [Yukihiro … [83] The music YMO produced during their comeback in the early 1990s also played an instrumental role in the techno and acid house movements towards the end of the 20th century. [55] The pace at which the band's music evolved has been acknowledged by critics. [10] "Testone" was in turn sampled in the UK hit "Tunes Splits The Atom" (1990) by 808 State and MC Tunes, as well as in "Naughty Naughty" (1994) by Jus a Test.[24]. [45] Beyond electro acts, "Computer Game / Firecracker" was also sampled by a number of other later artists, including 2 Live Crew's "Mega-Mixx II" (1987),[73] De La Soul's "Funky Towel" (for the 1996 film Joe's Apartment),[95] Jennifer Lopez's worldwide hit "I'm Real" (2001), and the original unreleased version of Mariah Carey's "Loverboy" (2001). [96] The band significantly affected Japanese pop music, which started becoming increasingly dominated by electronic and computer music due to YMO's influence. Their first live album Public Pressure set a record in Japan, topping the charts and selling 250,000 copies within two weeks, while their next studio album X∞Multiplies had 200,000 pre-orders before release. The song also samples the opening chiptune used in the arcade game Gun Fight (1975). Solid State Survivor 8. 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