Yellow magic Orchestra
By DJ M on July 18th, 2006
In Electronic Music
THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK Yellow Magic Orchestra "formed in Tokyo in 1978 with keyboardist Ryuichi Sakamoto, drummer Yukihiro Takahashi, and bassist Haruomi Hosono. History remembers YMO as a trailblazing synthpop band, one that pioneered the use of synthesizers, sequencers, and drum machines. But they didn't sound like a synthpop band, at least by the standards of the time, and they sounded too joyful, too different, to be lumped in with glum British acts like Gary Numan, Ultravox and Thomas Leer."