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Haruomi Hosono, overshadowed by his Yellow Magic Orchestra bandmate Ryuichi Sakamoto, has still forged a distinctive route through ambient music, building over the advances created by the soundscapes of Brian Eno through the ’70s, though he recorded his initial album before Eno had also joined up with Roxy Music. Blessed …

The trailblazing force behind the emergence of japan techno-pop sound from the later ’70s, Yellow Magic Orchestra remains a seminal influence on contemporary electronic music — hugely popular both in the home and overseas, their pioneering usage of synthesizers, sequencers and drum devices places them second and then Kraftwerk as …

As one-third of Yellow Magic Orchestra and an Academy Award-winning composer for his focus on the soundtrack going back Emperor, synth pop innovator Ryuichi Sakamoto has become the groundbreaking artists to get emerged because the past due ’70s. The generating power behind “Neo Geo,” a cutting-edge fusion of Asian and …