RFI: Yellow Magic Orchestra

Japan is such a small country

It is?

Not in terms of population, but in size - like in the US, in the 70's you had the Detroit scene, and the New York scene, and the Nashville scene, and the Chicago sound...in Japan it kinda feels like everybody knew each other and played on each others' records.

Of course theres no book about any of this so I'm just guessing here. Didn't Takahashi and Hosono produce or otherwise appear on all the YEN records stuff, which made up a large portion of Japan's new wave scene?

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8sc3sC5F91qz9lsso1_500.jpg
(sakamoto being cool)

http://chinmai.net/~ichiyanagi/img/060403/ymo.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YjYEJ9WHt4

awesome!

(cuts off halfway through, but you get the idea)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkPeDQKRpEk

The syndrum break in that BBC version is proper!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GncUycY9N34&list=PL2D3C508F366E5AD3&index=3

Confession, I have gone since about 1998 thinking that the record is called 'X∞Multiples' but it's *not* it is 'X∞Multiplies' what the fuck? I have a tour poster and everything, I feel so stupid.

For your ignorance you must relinquish your tour poster to me!

i thought it was "multiples" too until recently

I have owned two copies of this album for about a decade and also thought it was 'X∞Multiples' until 5 minutes ago so you are not alone

xp

Thankful, seriously!

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?