off course, YMO = classic
― erik, Sunday, 26 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― fields of salmon, Sunday, 26 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sean, Sunday, 26 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
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I also think Neo Geo and Illustrated Musical Encyclopedia have some gems among the kitsch. Download "Forrest of Feathers", "Zen Gun". "Fieldwork" with Thomas Dolby is a matter of taste (I can leave it alone.) whereas I love the Iggy Pop collaboration "Risky" but you might not.
― phil, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― erik, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
sakamoto...what about takahashi he rules the school
― geeg, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Heartbeat is an interesting album all it's own.
I haven't been able to get through all of Discord yet.
Also, I really like the contribution to Red Hot and Rio.
― brian, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― moley, Thursday, 29 September 2005 12:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― hold tight the private caller (mwah), Thursday, 29 September 2005 12:14 (eighteen years ago) link
US (Ultimate Solo)This is a two-disc from Japan which has a great selection of tunes. There are three more volumes in the series, collecting film scores, advertising work, and rareties.
/04This just came out last year. Sakamoto reinterprets some of his most famous hits as piano pieces. One of my favorite Sakamoto records, just fantastic.
Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto - Insen & VrioonTwo fantastic records that combine the sine wave glitchiness of Raster-Noton and Sakamoto's piano. I prefer Vrioon but they're both very similar.
ChasmThis is a 'pop' record, but it covers almost too much stylistic ground, losing focus along the way. The fact that it's not cohesive doesn't bother me, because the record proves that Sakamoto can succeed and nearly everything he turns his hand to.
Sakamoto & Fennesz - Sala Santa CeciliaThey both did a show a year or so ago in Rome. (The big treat was a version of Forbidden Colors!) This is an EP with one long noise track.
― Brakhage (brakhage), Thursday, 29 September 2005 12:56 (eighteen years ago) link
Forgot to say that the Rome show will indeed come out someday; the EP is a teaser? A one-off?
― Brakhage (brakhage), Thursday, 29 September 2005 12:57 (eighteen years ago) link
but sometimes a bit on the (cinema)muzak side.
After playing out Sweet Revenge and Smoochy, leading to Riot in Lagos and Thousand Knives, leading to 1996 and Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, I'm just now to the point of taking the film scores side of him seriously.
Does today's ilx stand by the suggestions above in this thread? Any to add?
― BAROQUE AS A JOKE! (PappaWheelie V), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 19:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Nobody here has ever mentioned Left Handed Dream, his 1982 LP with Robin Scott (aka M of "Pop Muzik" fame?) Well, I will, because it's good.
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 19:33 (fifteen years ago) link
the soundtrack for Tony Takitani is one of my alltime favorites.
― (*゚ー゚)θ L(。・_・) °~ヾ(・ε・ *) (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 19:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Summer Nerves!! Ridiculous vocoder jams. Has the version of "You're A Friend to Me" that Quiet Village jacked
― Bangelo, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 19:55 (fifteen years ago) link
I always liked parts of Left Handed Dream ('Kachakuchanee' & 'The Garden of Poppies' are two of my favorite tracks of his, they could be on B-2 Unit) but I could never handle the Robin Scott tracks. Even though I like the stranger parts of the first two M albums, Scott's style on this is closer to the straightforward third M album which is just trying too hard.
Last year I downloaded Sakamoto's original mix of the album with the weirder instrumental versions of the songs Scott added lyrics to later, and this version is suddenly one of my favorite Sakamoto records.
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 21:35 (fifteen years ago) link
His playing and production on some of ex-wife (and sometime YMO member) Akiko Yano's albums is superb. Search her 1990 Nonesuch (compiled by John Zorn!)
― Capitaine Jay Vee, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 21:44 (fifteen years ago) link
this is from a few months ago but
http://pitchfork.com/news/55850-ryuichi-sakamoto-diagnosed-with-cancer/
hope he does OK.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 12 November 2014 17:26 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, I wish him the best.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 12 November 2014 17:56 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, my heart skipped when I saw this thread pop up.
― The 5 FPs (MaresNest), Wednesday, 12 November 2014 18:23 (nine years ago) link
sorry!
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 12 November 2014 18:44 (nine years ago) link
Legendary composer and pianist Ryuichi Sakamoto reveals he has stage 4 cancer: https://t.co/lRA7LalUtx pic.twitter.com/o1uaQ3dQpW— Consequence (@consequence) June 8, 2022
― Antifa Sandwich Artist (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 9 June 2022 02:36 (one year ago) link
Fuck :(
― stranded, Thursday, 9 June 2022 08:25 (one year ago) link
Man, I didn't know it began as rectal cancer. What with all the news of this new wonder drug for people suffering from that specifically, I guess it might be too late for RS, if he's in the later stages.
― Maresn3st, Thursday, 9 June 2022 09:00 (one year ago) link