Yellow Magic Orchestra – Yellow Magic Orchestra
Label: |
Restless Records – 7 72700-2 |
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CD
, Album, Reissue, Remastered
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Country: |
USA & Canada |
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Genre: |
Electronic |
Style: |
Synth-pop |
Tracklist
| 1 | Computer Game (Theme From "The Circus") | 1:47 | |
| 2 | Firecracker | 4:51 | |
| 3 | Simoon | 6:30 | |
| 4 | Cosmic Surfin' | 4:28 | |
| 5 | Computer Game (Theme From "The Invader") | 1:02 | |
| 6 | Yellow Magic (Tong Poo) | 6:19 | |
| 7 | La Femme Chinoise | 5:58 | |
| 8 | Bridge Over Troubled Music | 1:19 | |
| 9 | Mad Pierrot | 4:05 |
Companies, etc.
- Licensed From – Alfa Records, Inc
- Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Alfa Records, Inc
- Copyright © – Alfa Records, Inc
- Glass Mastered At – Nimbus, Virginia
- Recorded At – ALFA Studio A
- Mixed At – Capitol Studios
- Remastered At – SAE Mastering
- Published By – Kay Music Publishing Ltd.
Credits
- Arranged By, Performer – Yellow Magic Orchestra
- Art Direction – Roland Young (3)
- Artwork – Masayoshi Sukita
- Bass, Electronics, Keyboards – Haruomi Hosono
- Coordinator – Shunsuke Miyazumi
- Drums, Percussion, Electronics, Vocals – Yukihiro Takahashi
- Engineer – Norio Yoshizawa
- Executive-Producer – Kunihiko Murai
- Keyboards, Electronics, Percussion, Orchestrated By – Ryuichi Sakamoto
- Mixed By – Al Schmitt
- Producer – Harry Hosono*
- Programmed By – Hideki Matsutake
- Reissue Producer – John Guarnieri
- Remastered By – Roger Seibel
- Supervised By – Tommy LiPuma
Notes
Licensed from Alfa Records.
℗© 1979 Alfa Records. All Rights Reserved.
Disc face: Manufactured in USA
Back inlay: Printed in Canada
Reissue of the album original released first May 1979 in the USA.
℗© 1979 Alfa Records. All Rights Reserved.
Disc face: Manufactured in USA
Back inlay: Printed in Canada
Reissue of the album original released first May 1979 in the USA.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Barcode (Text): 0 18777 27002 1
- Barcode (String): 018777270021
- Matrix / Runout: 72700-2 (V) · :MASTERED:·BY NIMBUS·
- SPARS Code: AAD
Other Versions (5 of 83)
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Yellow Magic Orchestra = イエロー・マジック・オーケストラ (LP, Album) | Alfa | ALR-6012 | Japan | 1978 | ||
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Yellow Magic Orchestra = イエロー・マジック・オーケストラ (Cassette, Album) | Alfa | ALC-1511 | Japan | 1978 | ||
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Yellow Magic Orchestra = イエロー・マジック・オーケストラ (LP, Album, Misprint) | Alfa | ALR-6012 | Japan | 1978 | ||
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Yellow Magic Orchestra (LP, Album) | A&M Records | AMLH 68506, SP-736 | Europe | 1979 | ||
| Yellow Magic Orchestra (LP, Album, Pitman Pressing) | Horizon (3) | SP-736 | US | 1979 |
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Reviews
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Really nice remaster with good dynamics. The indexing here is better than most of the Japanese CDs - you get a clean intro for "Firecracker", and "Mad Pierrot" starts with the drum break as on the US single edit. The only downside to this version is the poor colour balance on the artwork, which all looks a bit over-saturated. -
Edited 14 years agoElectronic music from over 30 years ago that will blow your socks off. A dear friend lent me this on vinyl when I was just getting started with techno in 1991. I thought it was good, yet funny & cheesy. I had never heard much from Japan, living in central Canada. We both liked the "bad" singing on Tong Poo, and snickered at the name.
Somehow it grew on me to an unbelievable extent and today I own nearly every YMO album. This first one is still my favorite. The melodies and intricate flourishes are timeless and addictive. The styles are all over the map, from Simoon that sounds like it's out of a Super Mario 3 cave level (probably the other way around!), to the eclectic Femme Chinoise with the wonderfully cheesy electric guitar chords.
Seriously, if you can't fathom it on the first listen, try it a few more times.
And, oh ya, I no longer find any of the singing bad! In fact, I love YMO vocals as they're so Japanese and distinctly different from typical American pop vocals.
Be sure to check out Atom Heart's Senor Coconut revamp of YMO's tunes in Yellow Fever. And the 90's remix CD Hi-Tech/No Crime is good too!
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