Although Yellow Magic Orchestra is considered more a synthpop band, they never dropped their original Prog sophistication.

Some of its contents wound up on the US LP X∞ Multiplies but three tracks never came out in the US on LP. Solid State Survivor is their second album, following quickly at the heels of the first self-titled release. It was originally supposed to be a sort of experimental one-off project, but after the success they encountered they decided to continue, getting together a full band, touring & doing more albums. The initial concept was to set high tech Kraftwerk type arrangements to the sort of exotic faux orientalism of Martin Denny. The band was formed in 1978 by Ryuichi Sakamoto collaborating with drummer Yukihiro Takahashi, who had previously worked with the art rock group The Sadistic Mika Band & bassist Haroumi Hosono, who had already released four solo albums & was a well known producer. They are highly innovative & influencial in the world of electronics, similar to Kraftwerk. Yellow Magic Orchestra is a Japanese techno-art-pop group. Representing the letter Y is a group from the magickal Pacific Rim country of Japan.

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