They disband at the end of 1983 to go back to solo projects. The following in 1980, X ~ Multiplies, makes nearly the same with worldwide hits Computer Game, Firecracker. Some readers may know the late Japanese pianist Hiroshi Sato from his excellent Awakening record with Wendy Matthews, or his work with folks like Haruomi Hosono and Tatsuro Yamashita (who, according the Japanese Wiki, called him Japans greatest pianist).We have some other great, if more subdued albums of his however, starting with Super Market, his 1976 debut. Their album Solid State SurvivorВ in 1979 (a good year !) spreads abroad one of their biggest hits, used in an ad in 1978: Behind the MaskВ (then covered by Michael Jackson, Eric Clapton.), and the album sales beyond 2 millions units in the world. In Japan where their concerts are quickly full, they participate to the start of the synthpop (or technopop)В and of new-waveВ trend which will produce in Japan a style close to the Eurodance in the 90s ( TRF, Globe.). YMO is inspired by bands like Kraftwerk and uses intensively synthesizers, beatboxes, sequencers, vocoders., and computing to experiment new sounds and fuse them to several more classical styles. He has a noticeable participation to the soundtrack of the famous anime among otakus: Nadia and the Secret of Blue WaterВ (гЃµгЃ—гЃЋгЃ®жµ·гЃ®гѓЉгѓ‡г‚Јг‚ў, Fushigi no umi no Nadia), in particular the song FamiliesВ ! He joins in 1973 as a drummer the Sadistic Mika BandВ led by the guitarist Kato KazuhitoВ and his wife Mika as singer, who is the 1st J-RockВ band ever to tour in England (as the 1st part ofВ Roxy Music) ! Singer, he also follows a very productive solo career by adding the synthesizer to his skills. Yukihiro TakahashiВ ( й«ж©‹ е№ёе®Џ)В was born on the 6th of June 1952 in Tokyo too. This leadership and eclectism granted him a 44th ranking in the Top 100 Japanese artists the most important by HMV in 2003. He is the one at the origin of YMO, after he helped Sakamoto on his 1st album, the of their rebands. That's the way we find him working for Miyazaki HayaoВ when he composes the promotional song of NausicaГ¤ of the Valley of the Wind, or for the great IdolsВ of the 80-90s: Matsuda SeikoВ and Moritaka ChisatoВ ! He manages his own label, Daisy World, to launch experimental artists.

Hungry for musical discoveries, he starts synthesizers and multiplies the collaborations and short-lived bands. Haruomi 'Harry' HosonoВ (зґ°й‡Ћ ж™ґи‡Ј)В was born on the 9th of July 1947 in Tokyo and is the grand-son of the lone Japanese passenger and a survivor of the Titanic ! He starts the electric bass by the end of the 60s, start of the 70s in psychedelic rockВ or folkВ bands such as Happy EndВ (whose song Kaze wo AtsumeteВ will far later be featured in the original soundtrack of Lost in Translation).

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