Ryuichi Sakamoto’s first taste of fame was in the late 1970s, when his band Yellow Magic Orchestra competed with Kraftwerk to become the kings of electro-pop. With synthesiser tracks like Heroic Raydeen (a reference to an old anime show), the YMO set the standards for electronic music around the world, kick-starting a boom that has […]
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