A good place to start with Sakamoto if you’re a fan of experiments for the dance-floor. Recorded in London with XTC’s Andy Partridge, as a whole it’s Sakamoto at his most adventurous, and marks a clear branching out from the populism of his work with YMO. A staple in any worthwhile list of ’80s electronica, it’s no mistake of the imagination to hear some of the ground covered here, as the footholds that Aphex Twin and Boards of Canada would further launch from in the ’90s. The co-founder of Yellow Magic Orchestra shows off a more minimal, edgy side of his his work with hard beats, dark bass lines, and stark keyboard work that sits somewhere between synth-pop and industrial.ī2-Unit contains one of Sakamoto’s most seminal tracks – the years ahead of its time, funked-up electronic odyssey ‘Riot in Lagos’. The second solo album by Ryuichi Sakamoto. Following his ground breaking "Thousand Knives" album.
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