BGM

by Yellow Magic Orchestra

BGM cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 21 March 1981
  • Label: Alfa
  • Country: Japan
  • Length: 47:11
  • Community rating: 4.06/5 from 1 rating

Artists on this release: Kunihiko Murai, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Shoro Kawazoe, Yukimasa Okumura, Yoichi Ito, Hiroshi Okura, Studio, Yukihiro Takahashi, Yoroshita Music Inc., Hiroshi Yuasa

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Produced by Haruomi Hosono and recorded in Tokyo in five weeks at the start of the year, the album was the first to put the Roland TR-808 rhythm composer at the center of a major release and the band's first studio work built on the Roland MC-4 sequencer. Its electro arrangements fed directly into early hip hop and techno, and Sakamoto's '1000 Knives' reworks a piece from his first solo album.

Genres

Descriptors: synthesizers, rhythmic, experimental, repetitive, retro

Tracklist

  1. バレエ (4:34)
  2. 音楽の計画 (4:33)
  3. ラップ現象 (4:32)
  4. ハッピーエンド (4:33)
  5. 千のナイフ (5:23)
  6. キュー (4:32)
  7. ユーティー (4:33)
  8. カムフラージュ (4:34)
  9. マス (4:32)
  10. 来たるべきもの (5:20)

Credits

  • Plan Net-Werk - artwork [creative service]
  • Toshinao Tsukui - artwork [creative service]
  • Peter Barakan - lyrics by [additional lyrics by]
  • Hideki Matsutake - programmed by [computer programming by], written-by
  • Haruomi Hosono - producer [produced by], written-by
  • Yukihiro Takahashi - written-by
  • Ryuichi Sakamoto - written-by
  • Mitsuo Koike - engineer [engineered by], mixed by [with]
  • Yukimasa Okumura - art direction
  • The Studio - design
  • Yoshifumi Iio - engineer [with]
  • Kunihiko Murai - executive-producer
  • Shoro Kawazoe - executive-producer
  • Hiroshi Okura - management
  • Yoichi Ito - management
  • Yoroshita Music Inc. - management
  • Hiroshi Yuasa - mastered by
  • Kenji Miura - photography by [photograph]

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