Thursday, April 17, 2008

Yellow Magic Orchestra - Key

Yellow Magic Orchestra was one of the most important pioneering electronic music acts along with peers like Kraftwerk, Brian Eno and Jean-Michel Jarre. They were one of the bands instrumental in making electronic music pop music, since it had been previously limited mainly to realization of well-known classical songs and experimental / musique concrète kinds of work.

Here's the YMO song Key, recorded live in 1983.

I like how the song is preceded by a swordfight and then punctuated by a comedy sketch. Electronic music was generally much better in the 70's and 80's when you had to be batshit insane to create it.

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