RFI: Yellow Magic Orchestra

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

^^^ (psst. Another live B-2 Unit recording, folks.)

clouds just sent me the Hi-Tech/No Crimes remix compilation done entirely by early 90's British electronic people (LFO/808/Orb/Orbital/etc) and it is holy-fucking-shit so so so good.

CJV - I'm intrigued, thanks so much!

Stevie, there are some Human League vs YMO mixes floating around also that are kinda cool.

http://i59.tinypic.com/lzdj6.jpg

is there any band (let alone only three-member) that did more great things as a group and among their various side projects and solo careers? mayyybe the beatles?

Great question, though to me YMO >>>> The Beatles - but I probably would've named them too.

Discounting bands like King Crimson that have had 20-some members throughout the years, what came to mind was Neu!, because then you can throw in Harmonia, those good Rother albums, La Dusseldorf, and some of Dinger's later stuff, though admittedly post say 1987 I don't think either of them were up to much good.

https://soundcloud.com/vgo/vgo-vs-korg-dsn-12-tong-poo-ymo

I got a whole Takahashi album off YouTube and it is smooth, chic 80's excellence. I don't have the link but you can find it easily enough.