Yellow Magic Orchestra is a Japanese electropop band, formed in 1978. Ranked No.2 in HMV Japan's Top 100 Japanese Pop Artists.
<p>The band is renowned as having pioneered the Synthpop and Electropop music genres, along with Germany's Kraftwerk.
The principal members are Haruomi Hosono (bass, keyboards), Yukihiro Takahashi (drums, lead vocals) and Ryuichi Sakamoto (keyboards).
<p>The band was originally conceived as a one-off studio project by Hosono, the other two members being recruited session musicians - the idea was to produce an album fusing orientalist exotica (cf their cover version of Martin Denny's Firecracker) with modern electronics. However the first album (with its cutting-edge production) was very popular, and the studio project grew into a fully fledged touring band and career for its three members.
<p>Sakamoto first worked with Hosono as a member of his live band in 1976, while Takahashi recruited Sakamoto to produce his debut solo recording in '77 following the split of the
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