Technodon

by YMO

Technodon cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 26 May 1993
  • Label: Toshiba EMI
  • Country: Japan
  • Length: 1:03:31
  • Community rating: 3.3/5 from 2 ratings

Artists on this release: William Gibson, Ruriko Kamiya, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Hirofumi Tokutake, John C Lilly, Keiichi Ishizaka, William S. Burroughs

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Reuniting for the first time in a decade, the Yellow Magic Orchestra briefly operated under the moniker YMO due to naming rights issues. 'Technodon' completely sheds their early 80s synth-pop sound in favor of lush, highly rhythmic ambient house and mechanical, IDM-inflected Detroit techno.

Genres

Descriptors: Leftfield, rhythmic, sampling, rain, atmospheric

Tracklist

  1. BE A SUPERMAN (5:20)
  2. NANGA DEF? (5:10)
  3. FLOATING AWAY (6:45)
  4. DOLPHINICITY (5:12)
  5. HI-TECH HIPPIES (4:23)
  6. I TRE MERLI (6:04)
  7. NOSTALGIA (4:48)
  8. SILENCE OF TIME (5:40)
  9. WATERFORD (5:38)
  10. O.K. (4:29)
  11. CHANCE (4:56)
  12. POCKETFUL OF RAINBOWS - JAPANESE VERSION (4:59)

Credits

  • Yellow Magic Orchestra - primary artist, music by, lyrics by, music by
  • Haruomi Hosono - band [ymo =], music by, lyrics by, music by
  • Ryuichi Sakamoto - band [ymo =], lyrics by, music by
  • Yukihiro Takahashi - band [ymo =], lyrics by, music by
  • Yohji Yamamoto - other [costume]
  • Fernando Aponte - programmed by [computer]
  • Yasuo Kimoto - programmed by [computer]
  • Yoshinori Mizuide - programmed by [computer]

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