Saravah!

NK: Between Sadistic Mika Band and YMO. Sakamoto arranges and co-produces. RS was nicknamed The Professor back then. Hosono plays bass. Currently Budget priced. Here we have an early (if not the first) appearance by all YMO members. A good example of late 70s studio pop. Not really related to their later Technopop sound.

DH: This album seems to be some kind of personal tribute to France by Takahashi. The songs songs are presented in fairly conventional musical settings with synthesizer being used unobtrusively. I like the remix cd much better.

• Volare (Nel blu dipinto di blu) 2.26
• Saravah! 4.03
• C'est si bon 3.12
• La Rosa 5.04
• Mood Indigo 2.51
• Elastic Dummy 5.03
• Sunset 4.04
• Back Street Midnight Queen 4.15
• Present 4.46

there is said to be a C'est si bon / Back Street Midnight Queen single

Murdered By The Music/Bijin-Kyoshi At The Swimming Pool

(*) 1980 Seven Seas GK-8106. 7", Statik STAT S17.1982/UK 7"

(*) There is said to be a Blue Color Worker 7" from Japan

School Of Thought (extended remix)/Stop In The Name Of Love/River In The Ocean

River In The Ocean was released as a Beatniks track in Japan

Neuromantic

A fine album . Should appeal to YMO fans though none of the YMO period solos tried to duplicate the more instrumental based YMO sound. There was a British music movement at the time called "New Romantic" which included stuff from for example Roxy Music, whom YT admired and OMD, a contemporary act. Possibly more an ironic connection with being neurotic, though I guess in its New Romantic attitude it, in coincidental hindsight (futuresight?) it might even have slight echos in William Gibson's novel Neuromancer, which was published some 3 years later. Recorded March-May 1981 with HH, RS, Omura, Tony Mansfieds, Manzanera, Andy Makay, Matsutake. Had a French CD reissue in the 90s.

Ivar de Vries writes:
Recorded while Yukihiro Takahashi was in full swing drumming/singing with the Yellow Magic Orchestra, this album might as well have been called a YMO album because both Haruomi Hosono and Ryuichi Sakamoto play their instruments here. And naturally the mostly fast rhythms are very similar to those in YMO's music as well as the album's overall mood. But some other musicians make an appearance too, such as Phil Manzanera and Andy Mackay both taking a break from Roxy Music.
Takahashi is in decent vocal form throughout where the usual echoes of David Bowie and Bryan Ferry from, again, Roxy Music are never far off. On the cover a few pictures of a rather pensive-looking Takahashi are printed but the music is actually rather cheerful. The first few tracks are alright if a bit interchangeable but starting with 'Drip Dry Eyes' (a compilation album favourite) they become excellent.

Glass Grand Espoir Connection New (Red) Roses Extra-Ordinary Drip Dry Eyes Curtains Charge Something in the Air

What? Me Worry?

The tune Flashback includes all members of YMO. YT duets with Bill Nelson (plays throughout the album), Zane Grif and Ronny. This album will appeal to YMO fans. The style changes drastically from track to track. Not really a problem since it's very good. Had a French CD reissue in the 90s.

Ivar de Vries writes:
One of the best Yukihiro Takahashi album during his Yellow Magic Orchestra period, it is certainly a varied one. Melody-wise most songs are strong and a few additional singers provide some welcome relief to Takahashi's "characteristic vocal style" (to put it politely), although he does sing with real passion throughout this album. The two short tracks are instrumentals with a Japanese feel, whereas the songs are clearly influenced by, or themselves influenced the early eighties British synthpop scene featuring the likes of the Human League etc.
The English-lyric songs are all co-written by Peter Barakan who also helped out YMO in this respect. As usual the other two YMO members help out their friend here, but they only make an appearance on the wonderful 'Flashback', for which Ryuichi Sakamoto also provides the music. Other highlights include 'Sayonara' which has Japanese lyrics, 'This Strange Obsession' (written and partly performed by Zaine Griff), the melancholic 'Disposable Love' about the effects of a relationship breaking up and the fun 'All You've Got To Do'.
'The Real You' continues the vocal style first heard on YMO's 1981 album ‘Technodelic’ with its multiple vocal layers sort of sliding over the accompaniment. The last track on the album is a cover of a George Harrison song from the surreal ‘Yellow Submarine’ soundtrack and anybody who knows the heavily psychedelic Beatles original will raise an eyebrow because here Takahashi manages to turn it into a nice upbeat pop-song, although some psychedelic elements like a Hammond organ sound and the well-known Beatles trick of inverted drum-sounds are retained.

What, Me Worry? It's Gonna Work Out Sayonara This Strange Obsession (tune by Zaine Griff) Flashback (with YMO) The Real You Disposable Love My Highland Home in Thailand (with Bill Nelson) All You've Got To Do It's All Too Much (George Harrison cover)

What? Me Worry? (EP)

• Futari No Kage Ni (unique to this EP)
• Flashback (shorter)
• Disposable Love (in Japanese)
• Sayonara
• Ich Bin Der Glucklichste Mensch Auf Der Welt (unique to this EP)

Disposable Love / Flashback

It's All Too Much / The Real You

(*) 1982 Alfa 7" (Holland) A-2774 (info: Ron Kane)

Are You Receiving Me? / And I Believe In You

Maebure/Another Door

Time And Place

Live album (16+20 Aug 1983). Band includes Keiichi Suzuki, Hajime Tachibana, Bill Nelson, Sandii and David Palmer. Has energy. out of print

• My Bright Tomorrow
• Kagerou
• Drip Dry Eyes
• Flashback
• Maebure
• Something in the Air
• It's Gonna Work Out
• The April Fools
• Happiness Is Happening [bonus studio track from 1983]

Wild and Moody

A short album. With Sakamoto, Iva Davies and Bill Nelson. Takahashi is in very good form with excellent arrangements. One of my favorite post-YMO YT albums I've heard. Recorded Aug-Sep 1984

Ivar de Vries writes:

Stranger Things Have Happened/ Bounds Of Reason, Bonds Of love/ Metaphysical Jerks

DH: The last track is unique to this release as far as I know. The song is credited to Bill Nelson and lists the players as Takahashi on drums, Bill Nelson and Mick Karn on bass. It is an instrumental that has a nice medium-fast tempo and lilting eastern melody.

NK: said to be included on "Duplex" Cocteau CDJCD 22 - most consider Metaphysical Jerks a Bill Nelson track with YT as a guest

Stranger Things Have Happened/Kill That Thermostat

Walking to the Beat/The Price to Pay

Walking to the Beat/Kagerou

this single is an edit, it was reissued in Yen Box 1

Poisson d'Avril (Soundtrack)

Light, pop-ish instrumentals plus 2 songs. Koji Ueno and Pierre Barouh appear. Takahashi acts in the movie.

Poisson D'Avril Theme from Mari Shohei's CM Song Proud Toilet Attendant Heart in a Hurry Ordinary Day Probably, South Pacific Brand New Day At Speak Easy Club The Trouble with Shohei Theme from Fujiko Soap Opera Poisson D'Avril (instrumental)

Poisson d'Avril (single version) / Kimi ni Surprise!

The Brand New Day (best of)

• Poisson d'Avril
• Futari No Kage Ni
• Maebure
• Flashback
• Ich Bin Der Glucklichste Mensch Auf Der Welt
• Walking To The Beat
• The Real You
• Are You Receiving Me?
• Drip Dry Eyes
• The April Fools

Best Selection

Best of

• Poisson D'Avril
• Connection
• The Real You
• My Bright Tomorrow
• Kagerou
• Extra-Ordinary
• Are You Recieving Me?
• Rokugatsu
• No tensh
• Sayonara
• Good Time

all that can be said here is this one is clearly marked as a best of, unlike Brand New Day

Twins (Best of Personal Works From Y.M.O.) - an out of print double CD with YMO era solo works by YT, Hosono and Sakamoto. No rare Takahashi tracks. YT released the most solo albums during the YMO era.

IT'S A Y.T. WORLD

1996.7.24 Alfa CD: ALCA-5077 out of print

this rarities disc is included only as a special bonus disc in Yen Box Vol.1 (17 CD set of YEN releases)

• Futari no kage ni -4.37
• Flashback -4.54 (karaoki)
• Disposable Love -4.28 (Japanese version)
• Sayonara -5.31 (karaoki)
• Ich bin der gluckligchste Mensch auf der Welt -3.59
• Are You Recieving Me? -4.06 (single version)
• And I Believe in You -4.29
• Another Door -6.32
• Walking to the Beat -4.06 (Australian single edit)
• Poisson D'Avril -4.46 (single version)
• Kimi ni Surprise! -4.04
• School of Thought -3.53 (live)
• Disposable Love -4.27 (live)
• Sports Men -4.01 (live with Hosono)
• Key -5.00 (live with Sakamoto and probably Hosono)
• It's All Too Much -4.28 (live)

Once A Fool ...

Sakamoto, Hosono and Kenji Omura play. Typical Takahashi, Nice but not very memorable as it's kind of middle of the road.

• HARUKANARU OMOI
• FUYU NO SILHOUETTE
• Providence
• SHIGOTO WO OETA BOKUTACHI WA
• One More Chance
• Sailor
• I Saw the Light
• KONCHU-KI
• NAKITAI KIMOCHI
• Kyou no sora

Kyou no sora/Konchu-ki 7" single (*)

...Only When I Laugh

Very little synth work. Nothing wrong with the songs, just regular pop arrangements.

Weekend Solution Life Like a River IMA NO BOKU KARA... Episode 87 Camp IE NI KAERITAI YUME KARA SAMETARA (TENSHI WA SUGU SOKO NI ITA) Moonlight Feels Right

Weekend/Camp 7" single (*)

Stay Close/Betsu-Ni

The Best Way

Best of 1985-87, including Beatniks

1. WEEKEND
2. SOLUTION
3. SHIGOTO WO OETA BOKUTACHI WA
4. STAY CLOSE
5. LIFE LIKE A RIVER
6. ONCE UPON A SUMMER FUNERAL
7. IMA NO BOKU KARA
8. SAILOR
9. NAKITAI KIMOCHI
10. TOTAL RECALL
11. KYOH NO SOR

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La Penseé

NK: Instrumentals. Various pieces of fashion show music. Witty sophisticated listening. Currently budget priced

DH: I take it that this is music produced for a fashion show.The cd is credited as a collaboration between Yukihiro Takahashi and Yohji Yamammoto. On the back cover it says "For Yohji Yamamoto and Yohji Yamamoto Pour Homme spring- summer 87, autumn- winter 87-88 collection in Paris. The music is a combination of piano and computer. You can't dance to it but it seems to have a sense of humor about it. I'm not sure how else to describe it.

Parfum De L'aube Memoires D'un Homme Memoires D'une Femme Brise Entracte Parano-Mania Voyage A Travers Le Futurproche Les Filles Qui Arrivent De La Chine OLD STEP Professeur "Fate" Bondissement Errance

Ego

DH: This is a fantastic album including Hosono and Sakamoto. Other guests include Iva Davies of Icehouse, Kenji Omura and Ray Ohara. Solid electronic pop music. Leads right into 'Broadcast from Heaven.

• Tomorrow Never Knows
• Look Of Love
• Erotic
• ASAIRO NO TAMEIK
• Sea Change
• Dance Of Life
• Yes
• Left Bank
• Only The Heart Has Heard

The Look Of Love/Dance Of Life

Broadcast from Heaven 1990.6.30 EMI cd:TOCT 5647, TOCT 9224 Yokoo cover art. This and Ego are more interesting than the last several or next few post-la Penseé. This is a regular studio album - at least one person wrote me guessing it was a concert before I added this comment. TENGOKU KARA NO CHUKE 6.000.000.000 No Tengoku Fait Accompli (by Steve Jansen) 4.30am NO YET 1% No Kankei The Sensual Object Dance SABISHISA NO SENNTAK Forever Bursting into Flame Rehabilitation What the World Needs Now Is Love

A Day In The Next Life

DH: The cover for this one is nice. It has a transparent plastic insert with Takahashi's face and title, underneath is the cd booklet which can be folded several ways to give various backgrounds to the picture of Takahashi. It also includes his business card.Takahashi plays everything with guest appearances by Kenji Omura, Keichi Suzuki and Steve Jansen. This is another great cd.

Only Love Can Break Your Heart Furueru Hoshi Ai Wa Tsuyoi Stronger Than Iron 360 Degrees Kuuki Suudake Betsu-Ni (by Steve Jansen) Everyday Life X'mas In The Next Life Kami O Wasurete Iwaeyo X'mas Time Nightingale In Heaven

X’mas Day in the Next Life

(*) 90.11.14 cd3: TODT-2595

1. X’mas Day in the Next Life
2. The Kami wo wasurete iwaeyo X’mas Time
3. The Night after X'mas - instrumental

Stronger Than Iron (CD3) TODT-2623

• Ai wa tsuyoi stronger than iron
• Kuuki suudake
• Stronger Than Iron (English version)

A Night In The Next Life (Live 1991)

DH: This live album focuses on versions of these songs featuring a lot of acoustic guitar and kind of a folky feel. It is beautifully produced and the live band includes Steve Jansen, Ray Ohara, Hiroyasu Yaguchi and Keichi Suzuki. Not much in the way of electronics but an excellent album that has a lot of feeling. (live 29 April 1991, Tokyo)

• Arigato
• Betsu-Ni
• Forever Bursting Into Flame
• Fait Accompli
• Kikansha
• Chotto Tsurainda
• 6,000,000,000 No Tengoku
• Kami Wo Wasurete Iwaeyo X'mas Time
• 1% No Kankei Ai Wa Tsuyoi Stronger Than iron
• Everyday Life
• Furueru Hoshi
• Murdered By The Music
• Disposable Love
• What The World Needs Now Is Love
• Paraiso

Genki nara ureshiine/Kuuki suudake-

Two 1991 live tracks, one only available on this single.

The Adventure of Gaku (soundtrack)

"Produced by Yukihiro Takahashi". All synth and samples. Gaku seems to be a dog, thus making this cd a good companion to Sakamoto's Adventures of Chatran. Comes with a 68 page b&w booklet about the film. The theme is full of clockwork percussion which is interesting. Overall pretty fun.

1. OPENING TITLE
2. PARADISE NAP
3. SUBSIDENCE BRIDGE
4. DRIFTING TWO
5. PRESENTIMENT
6. TORRENT
7. WONDERING TWO
8. THE THEME OF GAKU PART-1
9. ESCAPE
10. THE THEME OF GAKU PART-2
11. HIS LIGHT WITHIN
12. THE VOICE OF JEDI MASTER TURTLE
13. MEET AGAIN
14. THE THEME OF "THE ADVENTURE OF GAKU"
15. LIKE THE ENKA

Umi-Sore-Sango No Iitsutae (soundtrack)

DH: The cover shows a still from the movie, a man and boy in a fishing boat. The music is pretty much all synthetic and bears the unmistakable Takahashi sound.

NK: I think it's Takahashi in the boat. Ueno adds some strings on 2 tracks. YT with a tropical feel. Upbeat and pleasant. Near the end it has a cool blend of Okinawa sounds with string orchestra. This is my favorite of his soundtracks.

• Rising The Sun
• Theme of Uminchyw
• Stranger In Paradise
• OKINAWANCHILDAI
• Scream Without A Voice
• The Blue Fish With Secret Desire
• A Stormy Day
• Melody Of Coral
• Little Adventure
• Castaway
• Nocturne
• Little Two Hearts
• Smile Through One's Tears
• Expected Ocean

Yukihiro Takahashi In the '90s

1991.8.25 cd ep: Alfa ALCA -164

Out of print. Alfa material in techno remix. Doesn't fully gel. I don't think Takahashi's work lends itself to the remix genre.

1. medley: Glass/What, Me Worry?/Good Time/Are You Recieving Me?/Extra-Ordinary/Kagerou/Charge/ The Real You/My Bright Tomorrow/Sayonara
2. short edit of the above

Life Time, Happy Time 1992 EMI TOCT-6431, TOCT-9227 DH: This album also features arrangements that highlight acoustic instruments and an inner serenity that takahashi must have been feeling at that time. There is one absolutely killer techno-pop track included (Mis). Worth the whole cd for this track alone. Steve Jansen appears GENKI NARA URESHII NE OTOKO NI OITE SUTEKI NA HITO Follow You Down Good Days, Bad days Fathers Pursuit Of Happiness Happy Children Mis SHIAWASE NI NAROUYO KOUHUKU NO CHOSH

Sutekina Hito/Good days, Bad days

Heart of Hurt

DH: This cd has acoustic-based arrangements of these older songs and includes 2 songs I hadn't heard before this cd. Not much electronic here. I love Takahashi's songs in any setting. Recorded Sep-Oct 1992

NK: much more enjoyable than typical 'unplugged' albums

• 1% No Kankei
• Kimi To Iru
• Kagerou
• Maebure
• Kyo No Sora
• Kimi Ni Surprise Chotto Tsurainda
• Saravah!
• Drip Dry Eyes
• 4:30am No Yeti
• Left Bank
• Genki Nara Ureshine

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AHIRU-NO-UTA-GA-KIKOETEKURUYO (soundtrack)

This one has ducks. There is an "Additional Composers" credit so some of the music was done by Yasuo Kimoto and Hiroshi Takano besides the main YT credit. YT does get credit as "Performed by"

1. MOTA, BATA AND RIKI
2. TARANBE LAKE
3. A MAN WITH A BOY
4. MY LIFE AS A DUCK
5. FIRST ENCOUNTER
6. YONEZO'S TRICK
7. LITTLE ADVENTURE
8. TEACHER'S CHILDREN
9. MOONSTRUCK
10. TALE OF LOVE
11. HIS PRESENTIMENT
12. A MAN WITH A BOY
13. RYOSUKE AND JUNKO
14. THE LAST DAY
15. THREE FLEW OVER THE DUCK'S NEST
16. ENDING TITLE
17. OPENING TITLE

AOZORA (BLUE SKY) / Eien no natsu (*) cd3 single TODT-3318

Sei ippai no hohoemi/Futari de kurashite mitaine (*) cd3 single

Murdered By The Music Remix

remixes --I thought this album never really fell into a real good groove although I think this is one of his only album that could lend itself to techno. Just kind of sits there and repeats. The original is much more interesting and is shall we say... original. Certainly isn't auful or anything. Starangely the usually interesting Sunahara (Denki Groove) supervised this project.

School of Thought (Yoshinori Sunahara Mix) Murdered by the Music (Something Wonderful Mix) Kid-Nap, the Dreamer (Something Wonderful Mix I-Hasu (Toshiyuki Kishi Mix) Radioactivist (Ernie + Bert of React 2 Rhythm Mix) Numbers from a Calculated Conversation (Something Wonderful Mix) Blue Colour Worker (Toshiyuki Kishi Mix) Stop in the Name of Love (Yoshinori Sunahara Mix) Mirrormanic (LFO Mix) The Core of Eden (Yukihiro Takahashi and Kay Nakayama Mix)

Saravah! Remix (*) Vivid? Consipio cd: COCD-9207 DH: Produced by Yoshifumi Iio Very tastefully electronicized by Mr. Iio. Present Sunset Elastic Dummy La Rosa Saravah! C'est Si Bon Mood Indigo Volare (Nel Blu Dipinto Di Bleu) Back Street Midnight Queen

NK: This is interesting as the unremixed version was the first time all 3 members of what was to be YMO worked together for a lot of an album back in '77. The original intent was not technopop but sophisticated french influenced pop. Now in the 90s comes this rather creative stunt of infusing a technopop edge that never was in the original music into the whole album. While its not exactly one of the most memorable albums I own, it does come out sort of surprising and interesting.

(*)1995 .6.7 Toshiba TOCT-8968

1. Watermelon (single featuring Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra) 5.38
2. Look of Love (from "Ego") 4.49
3. SUTEKI NA HITO("Lifetime, Happy Time") 4.05
4. AOZORA ("Mr. Y.T.") 4.38
5. FUTARI DE KURASHITE MITAINE ("Mr. Y.T.") 4.21
6. KOMIAGERU NAMIDA TO KIMI NO TAME NI (single featuring Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra) 5.34
7. SEIIPPAI NO HOHOEMI (Single mix - original is track 5 of "Mr. Y.T.") 4.34
8. ai wa tsuyoi -stronger than iron (from "A Day in the Next Life") 4.39
9. shiawase ni narouyo (from "Lifetime, Happy Time") 4.41
10. Left Bank (from "Ego") 4.42
11. kami osurete iwaeyo x'mas time (from "A Day in the Next Life") 4.52
12. kuuki suudake (from "A Day in the Next Life") 4.27
13. 1% no kankei (from "Broadcast from Heaven") 4.07
14. X'mas Day in the Next Life (from "A Day in the Next Life") 4.58
15. GENKI NARA URESHIINE (track 1 of "Lifetime, Happy Time") 4.17
16. All Roads Lead to Heaven ~930MIX~ (mix of several other songs) 6.42

Fate of Gold (*)1995 TOCT-9229 BOKU WA UNMEI WO SHINJINAI 4.09 The Look of Love 5.45 Saenai kimochi 4.57 Merci boku 4.18 Flash Light 4.15 KONNA BOKU(KIMI WA MADA WAKAI) 5.03 10GATSU NO KOI 5.30 UMIBE NO IE 5.30 BOKUTACHI NO SHIAWASE 4.15 Fate of Gold 4.54

Saenai kimochi/Umibe no ie CD3 single (*)

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Portrait with No Name

• 1. HOLE IN MY SHOE
• 2. NAMO NAI RENAI
• 3. OISHII MIZU
• 4. OWARANAI TABI
• 5. FIELD GLASS
• 6. NAGAREBOSHI HITOTSU
• 7. DONNA IIKOTO
• 8. ASHINAGA OJISAN NI NAREZUNI
• 9. ANOKUMO HA, KYOU
• 10. I'LL BE HOME

NAMONAI RENAI

• 1. NAMO NAI RENAI (Words by Keiichi Suzuki, Music by Mr.YT)
• 2. ASHINAGA OJISAN NI NAREZUNI (Words by Keiichi Suzuki, Music by Mr.YT)
• 3. NAMO NAI RENAI (KARAOKE)

YUKIHIRO TAKAHASHI COLLECTION - SINGLES AND MORE 1988-1996 (best of)

(*) 98.02.25 East World TOCT 10189

1. Look of love (from Ego)
2. [unknown title from a non-YT album; features female vocal; from 8 April 1989]
3. 1% no kankei (from Broadcast from Heaven)
4. X'mas day in the Next Life (single mix) (from A Day in the Next Life)
5. Ai wa tsuyoi Stronger Than Iron (from A Day in the Next Life)
6. We Can Work It Out (Beatles) [from album 'All We Need Is Love' 24 April 1990]
7. Genki nara ureshiine (from Life Time, Happy Time)
8. Suteki na hito (from Life Time, Happy Time)
9. Floating Away (from YMO Technodon)
10. Aozora [Blue Sky] (from Mr YT)
11. Sei ippai no hohoemi (single mix) (from Mr YT)
12. Watermelon
13. Saenai kimochi (from Fate of Gold)
14. Namo nai renai (from Portrait with No Name)

THE SHOW VOL 6

YOHJI YAMAMOTO COLLECTION MUSIC

96.12.10 Consipio Records cd: COCD-9219

PA-TO A.B.C.D PA-TO E PA-TO F.G PA-TO H PA-TO I PA-TO J PA-TO K PA-TO L.M PA-TO N.O PA-TO P PA-TO Q 1 PA-TO R PA-TO S

The tracks are similar, segue into one andother and slowly build from one track to the next adding additional lines to a pretty much steady beat. They start spare and minimalist, adding a sort of strut with a heavy downbeat matching the way models walk at high end fashion shows. By track 9 the sound is more like minimal technopop complete with a "Femme Chinoise" type voice punctuating the Takahashi style runway paced drums and slightly meandering synth pads.

Cine Techno -Love-

These are Takahashi produced, but not necessarily performed covers of film soundtracks in techno style. Thanks to Max Totten for the track listing.

• 1. UN HOMME ET FEMME (Lai/Barduh)
• 2. MY GIRL (White/Robinson)
• 3. LA DOLCE VITA (Rota)
• 4. MELODY FAIR (Bee Gees)
• 5. "non-english title" (O'riodan/Hogan - the famous Cranberries song which was a hit for Faye Wong))
• 6. WHEN A MAN LOVES A WOMEN (Wright/Lewis)
• 7. AUJOURD ' HUI C'EST TOI (Lai/Barduh)
• 8. (and max's favorite!) LAST TANGO IN PARIS (Barbieri) .

Cine Techno -Yukahiro Selection-

This isn't a solo album but a sort of "YT Presents:" sort of original compilation.

weird packaging and concept. The booklet folds out into perforated name tag sized cards with facts about each film. The other covers (remember these are techno or at least retro synth-pop) Wonderful, but a little skimpy. Each CD is like a little over 30 minutes long.

1. Great Race March (Mancini)
2. The Big Battle (Shifrin)
3. Brazil (Kaman [wrong composer credit], it's a vocoded cover of the famous 1940s song by Barroso that was heard in the film)
4. La Dolce Vita (Rota -different version, K-Taro does a cover also)
5. Lecon Particuliere (Lai)
6. Blade Runner (Vangelis)
7. Not Goin' Home Anymore (Bacharach)
8. One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest (Nitzche)

Seems to be his favorite film themes. He produced the album but only performs the last number himself. The style is suitably consistant.

K-taro Takanami (formerly of Pizzicato Five) did 2 Cine Techno CDs of his own a few years earlier

Touch of Love

(*) 1997 Consipio single AGCA-50001

1. Te wo nobaseba - A Touch of Love
2. Hoshi no koe - Voice of the Earth
3. Te wo nobaseba - A Touch of Love (original karaoke version)
4. Hoshi no koe - Voice of the Earth (original karaoke version)

A Sight of Ghost (@) 1997 Consipio AGCA-10007 1. Run after You 2. A Sigh of Ghost 3. Inu ni naretara 4. A Smile 5. Trajicomedy 6. Set Sail This EP has 6 songs and clocks in at 33 minutes. The cover is styled like an old National Geographic magazine. Has some lite electronica type beats, bits of rock guitar, not much more or less than you expect from him.

Takahashi/Jansen

A remix of the Pulse album

(*) Consipio cd: AGCA-10010, 3xLP: AGJA-70002

THE DEAREST FOOL 99.10.20 Consipio AGCA-10019 An upbeat and welcome return to a kind of 80s technopop sound with some newer decidedly electronica beats thrown in. Includes some tracks with Suzuki (Beatniks). Some duets with female vocals and also Steve Jansen as a guest. Well worth checking out.

(*) Here's an item I have little info on

Strangest Things (King Records)

Other than YMO bands: 

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Sadistic Mika Band

Sadistic Mika Band

Sadistic Mika Band

Black Ship

Kazuhiko Katoh, Mika, Rey Ohara, Hiroshi Imai, Masayoshi Takanaka, Yukihiro Takahashi

• Sumie no kuni E (I+II)
• Time Machine
• Black Ship
• 2nd June
• 3rd June
• 4th June
• Yoroshiku dozo
• Dontaku
• Four Seasons
• Suki suki suki
• Typhoon
• Sayonara

Sadistic Mika Band

Hot! Menu

• Time to Noodle
• Mummy Doesnít Go To Parties Since Daddy Died
• Aquablue
• Mada Mada Samba
• Hi Jack (Iím Just Dying)
• Okinawa (Strange Fish)
• Style Is Changing
• Funkee Mahjong
• Tokyo Sunrise

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Kurofune (live) 

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20 Songs for 21st Century

(*) I saw this recently. Seems to be a "best of". 

Sadistic Mika Band Appare! 1989 Eastworld cd:CT32-5432 Reunion album. Plenty of Takahashi vocals and drums, so it sounds like his solo albums of this era. Ryuichiu Sakamoto plays on 2 tracks. Out of print but not hard to find.

A live version of Appare! was also released.

The Sadistics

Sadistics 1977

• Eo Vandes
• Rio de Janejo
• Soft Sea Sailing
• Koola
• Kobra Twist/(Japanese title)
• Whip It up/Kannst du yodeln
• (Japanese title)
• The Crazy Kimono Kids
• The Tokyo Taste
• (Japanese title)
• Far Away

The Sadistics

We Are Just Taking Off

• We Are Just Taking Off
• Blue Curacao
• Adios
• Close Your Eyes
• Nao/Game
• On the Seashore
• Floating on the Waves

The Beatniks

Peter Barakan translates and Matsutake sequences. All songs in English. Pretty much like a YT solo album with Suzuki's input. This album was remixed as Another High Exit in 1994.

(*) No Way Out/Le robinet 7" Vap 0018-07

(*) River in the Ocean/Ark Diamant 7" Vap 10053-07

The Beatniks

Exitentialist A Go-Go

Hosono guests on bass. Sakamoto arranges strings. Fun but far from technopop.

• Total Recall
• Aru hareta hini
• Natsu no hi no tomurai
• Common Man
• Theme for the Beat Generation
• Chotto tsurain da
• Stage Fright
• Taisetsu na kotoba wa hitotsu "mada kimi ga suki"
• Grains of Life
• Pilgrims Progress

(*) Total Recall/Chotto tsurain da 7" 7A073

The Beatniks

Another High Exit

This is a remix album directed by Kay Nakayama (Something Wonderful). a la Hosono's Mental Sports Mixes. Unlike that album, the Beatniks tunes are very deconstructed compared to the originals. Kind of interesting that much of it becomes electronic instrumentals peppered with vocal bytes not your standard techno trax. Compare to the less interesting YMO High Tech/No Crime mixes or Murdered by the Music Remix which are more pre-occupied with stripping in techno beats. It isn't really straight dance or techno as a lot of these remixes become, but soundscapes (think FSOL).

Mixes by Something Wonderful (x3), Graham Massey (x2), Aphex Twin, Ernie + Bert, Fractal Form, Bill Laswell.

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The Beatniks

The Show Vol.4

Yohji Yamamoto Collection Music

• qu'attends-tu
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• tu ne salit pas les mains

Sketch Show

Audio Sponge

(@) 02.9.19 CTCR-14224

New Hosono-Takahashi collaborative project with Sakamoto as guest! more info

Collaborations:

He produced the first 2 Hajime Tachibana albums. He also produced the first Urban Dance album. He did some albums with Susan which are well liked. He often guested on Sakamoto's and Hosono's solo albums. See their individual pages. He produced many more albums albums I don't have info on.

The Japanese pressing (not the US or UK ones ) of Coldcut's LET US REPLAY (TFCK-87963/4) have a remix of Coldcut by Takahashi (and RS and HH each)

He finally appeared on Towa Tei's Last Century Modern -- finally :-) since Sakamoto and Hosono have separately appeared on prior Towa Tei albums

my partial listing is chronologic

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M - Robin Scott

Famous Last Words

Takahashi gets first billing for drums. One track is called Yellow Magic. He does not play on all tracks. Synths by Wally Badarou and Thomas Dolby among others. This is the third M album.. Kitschy Techno-pop. Top notch production. Amusing. Recently releleased on CD in Europe.

Bill Nelson

Chimera

Takahashi plays drums. Nelson was YMO's guest guitarist on Naughty Boys and some YT solo albums. They clearly influenced eachother's sound. This was an EP that shows up paired with different material over the years. In the US the label added singles and called it Vistamix. The CD I have contains 2 EPs and is fully titled Chimera/Savange Gestures for a Charms Sake. 

I think some people mistakenly call this some sort of full collaboration. He's better discribed as guest drummer on many tracks as he does not get either front cover billing or writing credit.

Pierre Barouh

Le Pollen

1982 Saravah/Media 7 cd: SHL 1066 (reissue France)

Pierre Barough, a French singer who's a major influence on Takahashi did this album in Japan. YT was the main collaborator and Y. Shimizu contributes too. Sylvian does a spoken cameo. Interestingly 2 tunes arranged by Sakamoto from other Tokyo sessions around that time and not included on the original LP. They now show up on the CD reissue (which features a reprint of the Japanese LP cover down to the obi printed over it)

Karen Kirishima Karen 1990 Eastworld TOCT-5673 YT and Keiichi Suzuki produce tracks together along with other tracks by Kazuhiko Kato and Takeshi Fuji. This would be a pretty good example of deluxe pop production of the era. Guests include Kenji Ohmura (multiple tracks) with Hoppy Kamiyama and Bun Itakura dropping by on one track. Other Karen Kirishima works with Takahashi: All We Need is Love, Rokku ga Umareta Hi

Towa Tei

Last Century Modern

(*) 1999 AMCT-4444

Haven't listened yet. guests are : CHARA, UA, H. HOSONO, Y. TAKAHASHI

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