Yellow Magic Orchestra

Yellow Magic Orchestra (abbreviated as YMO) is a Japanese electronic music band consisting of principal members Haruomi Hosono (bass, keyboards, vocals), Yukihiro Takahashi (drums, lead vocals) and Ryuichi Sakamoto (keyboards, vocals). For their early studio albums and live performances, the band was often accompanied by music programmer Hideki Matsutake.

Each of its members were seasoned veterans of the music industry before Hosono formed the band as a one-off exploration of computerized exotica, initially paying tribute to performers such as Les Baxter and Martin Denny while also parodying Western conceptions of the orient. Over the course of YMO's career, the group continued to embrace new technologies, fusing them with classic pop forms, and indulging in sociopolitical, technological, or musical subversion.

They are often considered influential innovators in the field of popular electronic music. They contributed to the development of synthpop.

YMO were pioneers in their use of synthesizers, samplers, sequencers, drum machines, computers, and digital recording technology in popular music, during a time when these technologies were seen as novelties. The band is considered "ahead of their time," for anticipating the global trend towards drum machines and sampling, for having anticipated the "electropop boom" of the 1980s, their "pro-technological viewpoint," their use of video game sounds and bleeps, and for experimenting heavily with computers and electronic instruments.

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Releases

Sleeve Title Year Format
Yellow Magic Orchestra = イエロー・マジック・オーケストラ* - Solid State Survivor = ソリッド・ステイト・サヴァイヴァー 1979 Vinyl, LP, Album
イエロー・マジック・オーケストラ* = Yellow Magic Orchestra - ライディーン = Rydeen 1980 Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Single, Stereo
No Image イエロー・マジック・オーケストラ* = Yellow Magic Orchestra - ライディーン = Rydeen Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Single, Repress, Stereo
Y.M.O.* = イエロー・マジック・オーケストラ* - Propaganda (A Y.M.O. Film) = プロパガンダ 2001 DVD, DVD-Video, NTSC, Copy Protected, Reissue, Stereo
Yellow Magic Orchestra = イエロー・マジック・オーケストラ* - Solid State Survivor = ソリッド・ステイト・サヴァイヴァー 1980 Vinyl, LP, Album, Repress, Stereo
Yellow Magic Orchestra = イエロー・マジック・オーケストラ* - Solid State Survivor = ソリッド・ステイト・サヴァイヴァー 2018 SACD, Hybrid, Stereo, Album, Reissue, Remastered
Yellow Magic Orchestra = イエロー・マジック・オーケストラ* - Solid State Survivor = ソリッド・ステイト・サヴァイヴァー 1980 Vinyl, LP, Album, Repress
Yellow Magic Orchestra = イエロー・マジック・オーケストラ* - Yellow Magic Orchestra = イエロー・マジック・オーケストラ (日本版) 1992 CD, Album, Reissue, Stereo
Yellow Magic Orchestra = イエロー・マジック・オーケストラ* - Yellow Magic Orchestra = イエロー・マジック・オーケストラ 1979 Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
イエロー・マジック・オーケストラ* = Yellow Magic Orchestra - テクノポリス = Technopolis 1979 Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Repress, Stereo
イエロー・マジック・オーケストラ* = Yellow Magic Orchestra - ライディーン = Rydeen 1980 Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Single, Promo, Stereo
Yellow Magic Orchestra = イエロー・マジック・オーケストラ* - Yellow Magic Orchestra (US Version) = イエロー・マジック・オーケストラ (US版) 2018 SACD, Hybrid, Stereo, Album, Reissue, Remastered
Yellow Magic Orchestra = イエロー・マジック・オーケストラ* - Yellow Magic Orchestra = イエロー・マジック・オーケストラ 2018 SACD, Hybrid, Stereo, Album, Reissue, Remastered
イエロー・マジック・オーケストラ* = Yellow Magic Orchestra - テクノポリス = Technopolis 1980 Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Single, Repress, Stereo
Yellow Magic Orchestra = イエロー・マジック・オーケストラ* - Public Pressure = 公的抑圧 = パブリック・プレッシャー 2019 SACD, Hybrid, Stereo, Album, Reissue, Remastered
Yellow Magic Orchestra, イエロー・マジック・オーケストラ* - Solid State Survivor = ソリッド・ステイト・サヴァイヴァー 1983 Vinyl, LP, Album, Repress
Yellow Magic Orchestra = イエロー・マジック・オーケストラ* - Solid State Survivor = ソリッド・ステイト・サヴァイヴァー 1982 Vinyl, LP, Album, Repress
イエロー・マジック・オーケストラ* = Yellow Magic Orchestra - ライディーン = Rydeen 1980 Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Single, Stereo
YMO* - BGM 1981 Vinyl, LP, Album
Yellow Magic Orchestra - Yellow Magic Orchestra 1979 Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
Y.M.O.* - Naughty Boys 1984 Vinyl, LP, Album
Yellow Magic Orchestra - X∞Multiplies 1980 Vinyl, LP, Compilation
Yellow Magic Orchestra - Behind The Mask 1980 Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM
Y.M.O.* - Y.M.O. Mega Mix 1986 Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM, Mixed
Y.M.O.* - CD Selection Y.M.O. Sealed 1988 CD, Compilation
Yellow Magic Orchestra - Public Pressure: Standard Vinyl Edition 2019 Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Remastered
Yellow Magic Orchestra - BGM 1992 CD
Y.M.O.* - Naughty Boys 1984 CD, Album
Y.M.O.* - Naughty Boys (Instrumental) = 浮気なぼくら (インスツルメンタル) 2019 Vinyl, LP, Album
Yellow Magic Orchestra - YMO Remixes Vol.02 1999 Vinyl, 12"
Y.M.O.* - Y.M.O. Best Selection = 決定版 YMO・ベスト・セレクション 1990 CD, Compilation, Reissue
Yellow Magic Orchestra - Yellow Magic Orchestra = イエロー・マジック・オーケストラ 1979 Cassette, Album
Yellow Magic Orchestra - Solid State Survivor 2003 CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered
Yellow Magic Orchestra - Behind The Mask 1980 Vinyl, 7"
Yellow Magic Orchestra - YMONHK 2012 Blu-ray, Stereo
Yellow Magic Orchestra - Public Pressure 公的抑圧 1980 Cassette, Album
Y.M.O.* - Naughty Boys (Instrumental) 2019 File, FLAC, Album, Reissue, Remastered
Yellow Magic Orchestra - Y.M.O.伝説 1993 VHS, Album
Yellow Magic Orchestra - Clips - History Of YMO 1999 VHS, Stereo, Mono, NTSC
Yellow Magic Orchestra - Tighten Up 1980 Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Single, Styrene
Yellow Magic Orchestra - Yellow Magic (Tong Poo) 1979 Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Single
YMO* - Service 1983 Vinyl, LP, Album
Yellow Magic Orchestra - Technodelic 1982 Vinyl, LP, Album, Promo
Y.M.O.* - テクノポリス 2005 Cassette, Limited Edition, Reissue, CD, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue
YMO* - Technodelic 2019 File, FLAC, Album, Reissue, Remastered
YMO* - Service 1998 CD, Album, Limited Edition
Yellow Magic Orchestra - After Service 2019 File, FLAC, Album, Reissue, Remastered
Y.M.O.* - Naughty Boys (Instrumental) = 浮気なぼくら (インスツルメンタル) 1983 Vinyl, LP, Album
YMO* - Hi-Tech / No Crime Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM, Promo
Y.M.O.* - Techno Bible 1992 CD, Compilation, Box Set, Limited Edition

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