Yellow Magic Orchestra

A lot of people have heard of Yellow Magic Orchestra, a lot of people haven’t. Me, I heard about them for the first time when in a secondhand book and CD shop, I came across Junior Vasquez’s Junior’s Magic Orchestra for 200 yen. Had no idea what the hell this might be - some weird concept album? Turned out to be his remixes of 6 Yellow Magic Orchestra tracks, pretty tasty stuff.

Yellow Magic Orchestra are kind of like the Japanese Kraftwerk, in that they made music with electronics and made it popular. They’re different from Kraftwerk in my mind because they have more of a sense of fun. They formed in 1978 , hung around until 1983, and haven’t really done much together since.

There is, however, a whole heap of videos at YouTube. Here’s my favourite, Cosmic Surfin’ :

That’s my favourite track, but the best video award goes to Computer Game - link.
There’re also videos of Rydeen, Technopolis and probably heaps more I never came across.

Oh, and if you’re interested, I found a copy of that Junior Vasquez CD. At about 15 times the price I paid. Oh, tis a sick sad world…
(link.)

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