BGM

by Y.M.O.

BGM cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 21 March 1981
  • Label: Alfa
  • Country: Japan
  • Length: 46:48
  • Community rating: 3.99/5 from 6 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Marking a distinct shift away from bright techno-pop toward significantly darker, colder electronics, Yellow Magic Orchestra's 'BGM' heavily pioneers the use of the Roland TR-808 drum machine. The album is an incredibly futuristic, deeply mechanical, and surreal masterpiece of early electro, dripping with cryptic lyricism and anxious, rhythmic textures.

Genres

Descriptors: rhythmic, electronic, minimal, experimental, synth

Tracklist

  1. Ballet (4:34)
  2. Music Plans (4:30)
  3. Rap Phenomena (4:30)
  4. Happy End (4:31)
  5. 1000 Knives (5:21)
  6. Cue (4:30)
  7. U • T (4:32)
  8. Camouflage (4:34)
  9. Mass (4:30)
  10. Loom (5:15)

Credits

  • Y.M.O. - Member
  • composed by - Member
  • lyrics by - Member

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