Showing posts with label Yellow Magic Orchestra. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yellow Magic Orchestra. Show all posts

高橋幸宏 (Yukihiro Takahashi) - It's a Y.T. World

I know I've been going a bit YMO crazy here but I just had to share another. I know this was part of the Yen Box set but I don't know how rare this is in Japan, but it's certainly very hard to find on the internet. I recently found this on a rapidshare search engine by chance, the filename was just YT, so I thought it was just one of his albums called "Mr Y.T." which I've read it's not one of his best albums. But to my surprise, it was this little gem.

It's a collection of rarities such as the original version of "Are you receiving me?" which I didn't even know existed, since I thought the remix on my version of "Tomorrow's just another day" was wrongly tagged. And live versions of songs and even has a live version of Hosono's Sports men, and YMO's key from one of his solo tours, since Hosono was a band member of his he sings them with the man himself. I can't credit the original uploader since there was no source. Don't let the artwork put you off and download this!

MP3 / 108MB

Shane

3/25/2012 12:12:00 PM 3 PERMALINK

Sketch Show - Audio Sponge

Electronic/glitch album from 2/3 of YMO, though Ryuichi Sakamoto does collaborate on some tracks so you could call it half a YMO album, it's quite different in sound, it's definitely for the most part not synthpop, more ambient/experimental/glitchy. This is their first album and was followed up by two re-mix albums and also the equally as good if not better full album Loophole, which I'll upload soon.

Turn Turn by Sketch Show on Grooveshark

MP3 / 104MB

Shane

2/18/2012 04:38:00 PM 0 PERMALINK

Yellow Magic Orchestra - After Service

I don't think I'll be uploading YMO's studio albums since they're quite popular and easily available, but what is often overlooked is their few live albums, this one is my favorite, this is a recording of their final live show (before their first split) and it was also the same recording as in the YMO film mixed in with bits of concert footage on each song, PROPAGANDA (If you ever get a chance to see it, please do, it's quite rare to find now, on DVD anyway, I think it's all on youtube). This is the band at their very best, the songs sound so much fuller and alive, I also love the changes from their studio versions, the small things, such as added vocals in Rydeen. This was mixed by Brian Eno.

The clip below is not from the PROPAGANDA release, well it is, it's just that the full concert was released on Laserdisc as a stand-alone, therefore free of spoilers.


MP3 / 112MB

Shane

2/14/2012 02:11:00 PM 0 PERMALINK

細野晴臣(Haruomi Hosono) - Omni Sight Seeing


Last of my batch of Hosono albums for a while, this album has a mix of a lot of styles and sounds from across the world, it says on the cover "Omni Sound" and "The globe watch tour" and it certainly does live up to that. Few of the tracks are even sung in Arabic and French, it definitely does have that world music feel, though still keeping that signature Hosono sound.


Andadura by ???? on Grooveshark

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MP3 / 67MB

Shane

1/31/2012 05:03:00 PM 1 PERMALINK

高橋幸宏 (Yukihiro Takahashi) - Tomorrow's Just Another Day

I love the majority of Takahashi's albums because you know exactly what you're going to get, great (electro)pop. (I can't say the same for his album covers though! They're a mixed bag.) Two amazing songs stick out on here, "My Bright Tomorrow" and "Are you receiving me?" This is labelled as a re-mix, but I think that's a typo, as I can't find an "original" version that exists anywhere. As with most of his albums, this has Haruomi Hosono and Ryuichi Sakamoto guest as studio musicians.


My Bright Tomorrow by ???? on Grooveshark

MP3 / 58MB

Shane

1/31/2012 02:26:00 PM 1 PERMALINK

細野晴臣(Haruomi Hosono) - S.F.X.

Another album from electronic pop master Hosono, typical Hosono wackiness with this one, only 6 tracks long but it's very enjoyable. "Body Snatchers" is the stand out track for me, ends with a lovely ambient track "Dark side of the Star."

(This here is a special mix of Body Snatchers but it's almost identical to the version on the album)
Body Snatchers (Special Mix) by Haruomi Hosono with Friends Of Earth on Grooveshark


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MP3 / 65MB

Shane

1/30/2012 08:09:00 PM 2 PERMALINK

高橋幸宏 (Yukihiro Takahashi) - Neuromantic


Really nice catchy technopop album from YMO singer/drummer Yukihiro Takahashi, this is his third solo album and it features all members of YMO on keyboards/bass. You can find this online for cheap, since for a Japanese record it was quite popular overseas. But it's under appreciated nevertheless.



Drip Dry Eyes by Yukihiro Takahashi on Grooveshark


MP3 / 46MB

Shane

1/27/2012 08:21:00 AM 0 PERMALINK

細野晴臣 (Haruomi Hosono) - Philharmony



I guess I'll introduce myself too. Well I'm Shane from Manchester,UK and have been listening to music for as long as I can remember, but it wasn't until a few years ago that I really got into music, and since then discovered many fantastic artists the majority of which are really under-appreciated/under-heard, I'm sure I'll be sharing many of the aforementioned artists/bands on here, anyway;

Here we have Japanese musician Haruomi "Harry" Hosono's 1982 album Philharmony, which is just a small (but delicious) taste of the mind of this eclectic genius, the album is mostly made with electronic instruments, mixing ambient, instrumentals and vocal tracks together. It's a bit hard to listen to at first, it was for me anyway, but after a few listens I couldn't stop!

He has become somewhat of a pioneer or electronica with his now legendary band Yellow Magic Orchestra but in fact he started off as a folk rock singer in the band Happy End and it all evolved from there.

The stand out track on this for me has got to be Sports Men, it's a pop masterpiece and imo, if this record doesn't interest you so far, it's worth it just for that one song.

Sports Men by Haruomi Hosono on Grooveshark

MP3 VBR / 54.4MB

Shane

1/25/2012 05:07:00 PM 5 PERMALINK