This is Yellow Magic Orchestra's 1993 album Technodon plus two remix releases, a maxi single and an album.
Get the other YMO albums from here.
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"Technodon is the seventh and final studio album to date by Yellow Magic Orchestra and released in 1993, a decade after the band's original breakup. Because the name Yellow Magic Orchestra was owned by former record label Alfa Records, the band were forced to release the album under the name YMO. For the tour that followed, they were billed as Not YMO.
At the time of recording, Haruomi Hosono and Ryuichi Sakamoto were incorporating a lot of world music elements into their sound, which is still evident on Technodon; however, the sound is pared down, revealing simple technopop arrangements. Yukihiro Takahashi mainly used drum machines for the record as opposed to a drum kit. Like many artists at the time, YMO faced many potential legal troubles due to copyrights associated with sampled sounds from other artist's work. In this environment, using samples on the album was out of the question; a matter that Sakamoto was quite angry about. The new sound confounded older fans of the band while drawing in new listeners. Sakamoto's response to criticism was 'This is YMO.'" - Wikipedia
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artist: Yellow Magic Orchestra
title: Technodon
type: album
label: Toshiba EMI
release date: 1993
length: 63:42
genre: techno
country: Japan
language: English/Japanese
format: mp3
bitrate: 320kbps
credits:
Ryuichi Sakamoto - keyboards, vocals
Yukihiro Takahashi - drums, vocals
Haruomi Hosono - bass, keyboards, vocals
Ruriko Kamiya - vocals (tracks 1, 8 )
William S. Burroughs - vocals (tracks 1, 6)
John C. Lilly - vocals (track 4)
William Gibson - vocals (track 5)
Ruriko Kamiya - vocals (track 8 )
Hirofumi Tokutake - guitar (track 3)
Track 12 written by Ben Weisman & Fred Wise, Japanese lyrics by Reiko Yukawa
tracklist:
1. Be A Superman
2. Nanga Def?
3. Floating Away
4. Dolphinicity
5. Hi-Tech Hippies
6. I Tre Merli
7. Nostalgia
8. Silence Of Time
9. Waterford
10. O.K.
11. Chance
12. Pocketful Of Rainbows
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artist: Yellow Magic Orchestra/various
title: Technodon Remixes I
type: maxi single
label: Toshiba EMI
release date: 1993
length: 31:25
genre: techno
country: Japan
language: English/Japanese
format: mp3
bitrate: 128kbps
credits:
Tracks 1-3 remixed by Towa Tei
Track 4 remixed by Goh Hotoda & François Kevorkian
Towa Tei - keyboards, drums (tracks 1-3)
"Little" Louie Vega - keyboards (track 2)
Syunji Moriwaki - keyboards, drums (track 2)
Phillipe Saisse - piano, keyboards (track 4)
Akio Akashi - programming (track 4)
tracklist:
1. Pocketful Of Rainbows (Heavy Rainbow Mix)
2. Be A Superman (Human Animal Mix)
3. Floating Away (Voltage Unlimited Mix)
4. Nostalgia (Jeux De Mixage)
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artist: Yellow Magic Orchestra/The Orb
title: Technodon Remixes II
type: album
label: Toshiba EMI
release date:
length: 47:46
genre: techno/ambient/experimental
country: Japan
language: English
format: mp3
bitrate: 192kbps
codec: lame 3.92
credits:
All tracks remixed by The Orb
tracklist:
1. Waterford (A23 Diversion Mix)
2. Waterford (A303 One Lane Closed Mix)
3. Hi-Tech Hippies (Ground Plan For Perfection Mix)
4. Hi-Tech Ambience (Ariel Implosion Mix)
5. Nanga Def? (Hope You Choke On Your Whale Meat Mix)
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Get the other YMO albums from here.
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"Technodon is the seventh and final studio album to date by Yellow Magic Orchestra and released in 1993, a decade after the band's original breakup. Because the name Yellow Magic Orchestra was owned by former record label Alfa Records, the band were forced to release the album under the name YMO. For the tour that followed, they were billed as Not YMO.
At the time of recording, Haruomi Hosono and Ryuichi Sakamoto were incorporating a lot of world music elements into their sound, which is still evident on Technodon; however, the sound is pared down, revealing simple technopop arrangements. Yukihiro Takahashi mainly used drum machines for the record as opposed to a drum kit. Like many artists at the time, YMO faced many potential legal troubles due to copyrights associated with sampled sounds from other artist's work. In this environment, using samples on the album was out of the question; a matter that Sakamoto was quite angry about. The new sound confounded older fans of the band while drawing in new listeners. Sakamoto's response to criticism was 'This is YMO.'" - Wikipedia
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artist: Yellow Magic Orchestra
title: Technodon
type: album
label: Toshiba EMI
release date: 1993
length: 63:42
genre: techno
country: Japan
language: English/Japanese
format: mp3
bitrate: 320kbps
credits:
Ryuichi Sakamoto - keyboards, vocals
Yukihiro Takahashi - drums, vocals
Haruomi Hosono - bass, keyboards, vocals
Ruriko Kamiya - vocals (tracks 1, 8 )
William S. Burroughs - vocals (tracks 1, 6)
John C. Lilly - vocals (track 4)
William Gibson - vocals (track 5)
Ruriko Kamiya - vocals (track 8 )
Hirofumi Tokutake - guitar (track 3)
Track 12 written by Ben Weisman & Fred Wise, Japanese lyrics by Reiko Yukawa
tracklist:
1. Be A Superman
2. Nanga Def?
3. Floating Away
4. Dolphinicity
5. Hi-Tech Hippies
6. I Tre Merli
7. Nostalgia
8. Silence Of Time
9. Waterford
10. O.K.
11. Chance
12. Pocketful Of Rainbows
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artist: Yellow Magic Orchestra/various
title: Technodon Remixes I
type: maxi single
label: Toshiba EMI
release date: 1993
length: 31:25
genre: techno
country: Japan
language: English/Japanese
format: mp3
bitrate: 128kbps
credits:
Tracks 1-3 remixed by Towa Tei
Track 4 remixed by Goh Hotoda & François Kevorkian
Towa Tei - keyboards, drums (tracks 1-3)
"Little" Louie Vega - keyboards (track 2)
Syunji Moriwaki - keyboards, drums (track 2)
Phillipe Saisse - piano, keyboards (track 4)
Akio Akashi - programming (track 4)
tracklist:
1. Pocketful Of Rainbows (Heavy Rainbow Mix)
2. Be A Superman (Human Animal Mix)
3. Floating Away (Voltage Unlimited Mix)
4. Nostalgia (Jeux De Mixage)
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artist: Yellow Magic Orchestra/The Orb
title: Technodon Remixes II
type: album
label: Toshiba EMI
release date:
length: 47:46
genre: techno/ambient/experimental
country: Japan
language: English
format: mp3
bitrate: 192kbps
codec: lame 3.92
credits:
All tracks remixed by The Orb
tracklist:
1. Waterford (A23 Diversion Mix)
2. Waterford (A303 One Lane Closed Mix)
3. Hi-Tech Hippies (Ground Plan For Perfection Mix)
4. Hi-Tech Ambience (Ariel Implosion Mix)
5. Nanga Def? (Hope You Choke On Your Whale Meat Mix)