synffYellow Magic Orchestra, formed in Tokyo in 1978 by Haruomi Hosono, Yukihiro Takahashi, and Ryuichi Sakamoto, pioneered electronic music's pop frontier with their groundbreaking use of synthesizers, samplers, sequencers, drum machines, and digital recording.
Blending techno kayō, synth-pop,…
22 roots·14 legacies
Roots trace the artists and scenes that shaped Yellow Magic Orchestra; legacies follow the artists carrying those ideas forward. The names below are the most-mentioned direct connections in the graph.
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Yukihiro Takahashi, Butcher Brown, Charles Stepney, DJ Harrison + 18 more
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