We had this album when I was in elementary school, under the name "Computer Game". We used to play it and pretend that we were playing the instruments in the morning before going to school in 1979 when I was 11 year old, LOL! Such a great jam, then and today!!
Not at all. Soul Train featured EVERYBODY back in the day. If the music was soul, as this was, you saw it on Soul Train. Music back then was sooooo not as compartmentalized as it is now.
Как это было давно. Начало 80-х. Молодость. А я в настоящем уже дважды прадед. Вот время идёт. И только остаётся память. Кстати, эта композиция для меня из лучших.
A big club smash from 1978, originally released under the name of Computer game, The Yellow Magic orchestra were only a handful of artists & groups flooding the Soul/jazz scene here in the UK with great fusion tracks
J Eshun as I recall and I was but 8 years old at the time, when this jam hit the Soul airwaves on this side of the Pond, my people almost immediately embraced them. This joint is just that FUNKY! 💯🎶
Rest in Heavenly peace to the keyboardist of yellow magic Orchestra thank you for having a very big place all about hearts and may you forever have a place in all of our hearts
You KNOW, you have "THE JAM", if you're invited onto SOUL TRAIN to perform it! Especially since they lip synch performances on the show and your song is all INSTRUMENTAL! 🤣🤣🤣
“‘The thing was to take these western ideas of the exotic, but to subvert them,’ [said] Hosono. ‘With Martin Denny, the exotica is kind of fake. But I am real! I am the target of that western exotica. So what I wanted to make was exotica from an oriental perspective.’ (Interview with The Guardian).”
This was everything…the soundtrack to dance era, to my rollerskating excursions (which usually ended in a speedy crash), to my interest in he futurism of Devo, New Wave, drum machines, samplers (which were Sears and Roebuck tape recorders back in the day. LOL! This is also my favorite reference track of how a mix should use dynamics, fx, and space to create a dimensional mix. Listen at a very low level…it seeps into your subconsciousness. Thanks for his music.
The very beginning of this is sampled by Afrika Bambaataa in Death Mix part 2. I always thought it was Afrika that created that beat, not YMO. Gotta say, learning is fun.
An incredible band ahead of their time with this techno funky tune..touching on theur cultural heritage..I never grow old of this one..a happy get up and dance tune😀
We, Gentleman of Leisure Disco or G.O.L.D., used to mix this along with Kraftwork (Trans Europe Express) in our R&B lineup at our dance parties for Bethune Cookman College.
I bet the idea to do subdued lighting was theirs. The coolness factor is off the charts. Mysterious Asian electronic deliciousness!!! Kraftwerk WISHES they had this much personality.
I went through a journey in finding this song. It started with hearing it sampled by De La Soul for a song called "Funky Towel", then I heard the original in bits and pieces as the BGM on a VH1 special called "TV's Illest Minority Moments". But I honestly went through a hell of a culture shock upon hearing it on Soul Train, so much so that the next time my local network aired this episode, I'd be scrambling to grab the the nearest VHS I could find so I could tape the show...that is, until I finally saved it as an mp3. Oddly enough, I did manage to record YMO's performance on VHS 😊
I went through a similar journey, just listening to the prolific rap artist Viper, as one does. When his hit song _The Chinese Aint Do Tiananmen Square, I Did_ came on I noticed that the sample used for the beat sounded pretty cool! I scrolled through the comments for a good few minutes before getting referred to this song and band by name. Maybe the journey wasn't so similar after all...
The struggle was real. What you just explained happened to me many times through my 20s. Now 54 with any tune at the touch of a screen click of a button,hard to remember them struggles amd frustrations. They could keep you up at night wanting to know the band and song name. No RU-vid sound hound shazam to fall back on. They were the days 😂
The story I heard was that YMO's cover was sort of intended to be a tongue-in-cheek, self-aware satire of the kitschy, "faux-Asian" sound of Denny's exotica music. Basically, the idea was to take an inauthentic approximation by a foreigner and do it so much better that they reappropriated it for themselves.
Sampled wayyyy too much in the Hip Hop community since Africa Bambatta in the early 80’s-J-Lo in 2000s..No thanks, i’ll stick to d original. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Magic_Orchestra_(album)?wprov=sfti1
