DVD of Sakamoto's tour 2009 in Japan, filmed 28th April at Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall, plus footage of rehearsals and other candid shots. Region Code 2, NTSC.

Re-release from 1999 of the soundtrack album to the film about Francis Bacon. Mostly electronic music, that provided an excellent aural accompaniment.


Price:   £16.99

Fifth in the deluxe series, released April 21st. Tracks chosen by Takahashi and Hosono. Track details not yet available.

First compilation album from Ryuichi Sakamoto's Commmons label. CD with 16 tracks plus DVD featuring footge of Sakamoto talking about the label with various music clips by some of the artists.

The 16 tracks include Ryuichi Sakamoto / Firewater, HASYMO (Yellow Magic Orchestra) / The City of Light, Kotoringo / To Stanford, AA= / Peace !!, Takamasa Aoki / Private Party, Naomi and Goro / Silent Cllouds, Takuji Aoyanagi / Utsushite Nagameru, mi-gu / Choose the Light, Asa-Chang and Junrei / Woohang no Onna, OOIOO / Sol, Fretwork / O Waly, Waly, Fennez / Saffron Revolution, Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto / ax Mr. L, Tortoise / Prepare Your Coffin

Music clips include Ryuichi Sakamoto / Koko, HASYMO / Tokyo Town Pages, Kotoringo / Oideyo, AA= / Freedom, mi-gu / Pulling From Above Jickbeats Version, OOIOO / Sol, Alva Noto / u, 09-1-2, Tortoise / Prepare Your Coffin


Price:   £24.99

Remix album by Osaka native Berlin resident ambient, experimental, electronica, musician and producer. Released on Commmons, includes remixes of HASYMO, Sketch Show and Sakamoto tracks.

1. Rescue - Aoki Takamasa remix / HASYMO 2. Ascari_dry_condition - self remix / Aoki Takamasa 3. Mars - Aoki Takamasa remix / Sketch Show 4. Fractalized / Aoki Takamasa 5. War&Peace - Aoki Takamasa remix / Ryuichi Sakamoto 6. Love Bites - self remix / Aoki Takamasa 7. Music for Sweet Room on the Orbit of the Earth - self remix / Aoki Takamasa 8. composition 0919 - Aoki Takamasa remix / Ryuichi Sakamoto 9. Re-platform - Aoki Takamasa remix / Yoshihiro Hanno

Live album recorded during Sakamoto's 'Playing the Piano' tour between March 18th and April 29th 2009. Tracks selected by Sakamoto from a pool of over 500 recordings.

CD 1 1. Hibari 2. Composition 0919 3. Put Your Hands Up 4. Mizu No Naka No Bagatelle 5. Tango 6. Amore 7. Ambiguous Lucidity 8. A Flower Is Not A Flower 9. Before Long 10. Energy Flow 11. Mc8_(Tongpoo) 12. Merry Christmas Mr.Lawrence 13. The Last Emperor 14. Rain

CD 2 1. The Sheltering Sky 2. Sweet Revenge 3. High Heels 4. Bolerish 5. Silk 6. Self Portrait 7. Bibo No Aozora 8. Perspective 9. Behind The Mask 10. Tibetan Dance 11. 1919 12. Thousand Knives 13. Parolibre

Price:   £23.99

Compilation album and the name of an annual concert in Tokyo that this year featured Yellow Magic Orchestra and related artists. Released on Sakamoto's Commmons label.

1. Pupa - At Dawn 2. Asa-Chang & Junray - Woohang no Onna 3. Mi-Gu - Pulling from Above 4. Kotoringo - me.ga.ne 5. Moonriders - Tokyo, Round and Round 6. Hiroshi Takano - Lov 7. Naomi & Goro - Good Night Song 8. Soutaisei Riron - Teletou 9. Schardarapa - Good Old Future 10. Karappo Flavour - The Dub Flower 11. Y. Sunahara - Lovebeat (Radio edit) 12. Kuchiroro - Tonight 13. Sheena & The Rokkets - My Way 14. Yellow Magic Orchestra - Rydeen 79/07

Re-release from 1987 of the Ryuichi Sakamoto produced / arranged / mixed album by the UK singer/songwriter. The opening track is a duet between Virginia and David Sylvian, while the last is a bonus track only found on the Japanese release.

1. Some Small Hope 2. A Father 3. So Like Dorian 4. I'm Sorry 5. Tree Top Club 6. Charm 7. Love's a Lonely Place to be 8. A Summer Long Since Passed 9. Darkness Has Reached its End 10. A Day, A Night

Price:   £20.99

Formed in 1997, Minimums are three female musicians playing marimbas and percussion. In recent years they've become a popular live act. This is an album of cover versions of YMO tracks including Rydeen, Tong Poo, Technopolis, Kimi ni Mune Kyun, Ongaku, Chugoku Onna, Firecracker, Cosmic Surfin and Behind The Mask.

Released on Ryuichi Sakamoto's Commmons label. Eighth album from the Bossa Nova duo featuring guests Ryuichi Sakamoto on piano and Jaques Morelenbaum on cello. Recorded in Rio de Janeiro.


Price:   £22.99

Released September 2nd. Debussy is one of Ryuichi Sakamoto's favourite composers and on this album Sakamoto and other artists on his Commmons label select the tracks. Comes with 120 page hardcover book, with ellaborate packaging and is a 'carbon offset' CD.

1. ll pleure dans coeur 2. String Quartet In G Minor, Op. 10 1. Anime et tres decide (1893) 3. Prelude a lapres-midi d'un faune (1894) 4. Trois Nocturnes - Nuages 5. La Mer ll. Jeux de vagues (1905) 6. Images l - Reflets Dans L'Eau (1905) 7. Images ll - Et La Lune Descend Sur Le Temple Qui Fut (1907) 8. Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum 9. Preludes Livre l - La danse de Puck (1910) 10. Le Martyre de Sain Sebastien - 1. La Cour de lys 11. Preludes Livre ll - Brouillards (1912) 12. Sonate Pour Flute, Alto Et Harpe 13. Sonate Pour Violon Et Piano ; Allegro Vivo

Released on Ryuichi Sakamoto's Commmons label 23rd September. Fretwork are a British viols group who on this album collaborate with mezzo soprano singer Clare Wilkinson. 24 tracks from the 16th century and W. Bird to Michael Nyman in the 20th century.

1. Where the blind (and wanton boy) 2. Auf ein altes Bild 3. Now each flowerly bank of May 4. The Garden 5. La fille aux cheveux de lin 6. Turn our captivity 7. O Solitude 8. O Waly, waly 9. Let me not to the marriage 10. Fantasia No.1 11. The Silken Tent 12. Fantasia No.2 13. Why is my verse so barren? 14. O Lord in thy wrath 15. Music for a while 16. Sleep 17. Lord, to Thee I make my moan 18. Prelude in C major 19. Fugue in C major 20. O Lord, make thy servant Elizabeth 21. Gebet 22. Heimweh 23. At the manger 24. If

Price:   £16.99

The Ultimate Collection of YMO does exactly what it says on the tin. 2 CDs of their best tunes from their brief but brilliant career, 1978-1983. 34 tracks. CD 1. Computer Game 2. Firecracker 3. Tong Poo 4. La Femme Chinoise 5. Technopolis 6. Insomnia 7. Rydeen 8. Behind the Mask 9. Solid State Survivor 10. Radio Junk 11. Jingle 'YMO' 12. Nice Age 13. Tighten Up 14. The End of Asia 15. Citizens of Science 16. Hirake Kokoro Jiseiki CD2. 1. Cue 2. Ballet 3. U.T. 4. Gradated Grey 5. Taiso 6. Lover Come Back to Me 7. Kimi ni Mune Kyun 8. Chaos Panic 9. Ongaku 10. Lotus Love 11. Kai-kou 12. Kageki-na Shukujyo 13. The Madmen 14. Ishin Denshin 15. Perspective 16. M-16 17. Pocketful of Rainbows 18. Behind the Mask (Bonus Track Seiko Quartz CM Version).

Filmed live at the Meltdown Festival, Royal Festival Hall, London, June 15th 2008. Ryuichi Sakamoto, Yukihiro Takahashi and Haruomi Hosono, plus Ren Takada (pedal steel guitar), Tomohiko Gondo (HD operation, euphonium) and Christian Fennesz (guitar / electronics). Visuals by Shoko Ise.

Disc 1. 1. I-Shin Den-Shin 2. Sportsmen 3. Fly Me to the River 4. Mars 5. Flakes 6. Riot in Lagos 7. Ongaku 8. Rescue 9. Turn Turn 10. Tokyo Town Pages 11. The City of Light 12. Supreme Secret 13. Wonderful to Me 14. Tibetan Dance 15. War and Peace 16. Rydeen 79/07 (encore 1) 17. Chronograph (encore 2) 18. Cue

Disc 2. Two tracks live from Gijon, Spain, plus interviews.

Price:   £34.99

Excellent new album from the percussionist Asa-Chang, ex band master of Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra. Guest musicians are Ryuichi Sakamoto, Rina Ohta, Kankuro Kudo with a remix by Talvin Singh. Released on Sakamoto's Commmons label.

1. Kotoba wo Renko Suru to Dounaru 2. Kage no Nai Hito 3. Stew 4. Chestnuts Street 5. Sabadiilla 6. Wohan no Hito 7. Show me the Way to Go Home 8. Jump! 9. Kage no Nai Hito - Lehara-tronics Mix 10. 12 Bushi-24...22..46 Remix- Remixed by Talvin Singh 11. Kakunin no Uta

This is a limited edition, 2 in 1 CD of the two remix albums of Yellow Magic Orchestra tracks by some of Japan's leading DJs and remixers. CD1 is YMO Remixes Technopolis 2000-01 and CD2 is YMO Remixes Technopolis 2000-00.

CD1. 1. Technopolis (The Readymade / Darlin' of Discotheque Track) 2. Tighten Up 3. Rydeen (Sratm -Towa Tei- Remix) 4. Seoul Music 5. Castalia (Motor Headphone from Dragon Ash) 6. Behind the Mask (Main Mix) (DJ Hasebe) 7. Pure Jam (Vigorous Jam - Toshihiko Mori Remix) 8. Nice Age 9. Behind the Mask (F.P.M's Sweet Soul Bossa Nova) 10. Firecracker (Main Mix) (Malawi Rocks) 11.(The Mad Capsule Markets - Takeshi/Motokatsu- & Kei Kusama) 12. Perspective (Sugizo)

CD2. 1. Opening from the Past (Hideki Matsutake-Logic System) 2. Technoplis (Denki's Technopolis -RMX) (Denki Groove) 3. (Groove That Soul Mix) 4. (DJ Celory Remix) (DJ Celory from Soul Scream) 5. Insomnia (Dry & Heavy Remix) 6. (Good-Bye Bus Mix) (Hiroyuki Hayashi from Polysics) 7. Rydeen (Yamada Man Remix) 8. Cosmic Surfin' (Merry Go Round Mix) (EYE from Boredoms) 9. Behind the Mask (Farewell Mr.S3000 Remix) (Taku from m-flo) 10. (Forest 808 Mix) (ENML) 11. (POP' Las T-C'mix) 12. Closing for the Future (Hideki Matsutake- Logic System)

Price:   £24.99

22nd solo album from one third of YMO and first for three years. Guest musicians are Amiina (Iceland), Lali Puna (Germany), ATOMtm (Chile), Steve Jansen (UK) and Cornelius (Japan). First pressing comes with DVD, a video clip collection 'A La Vie Prochaine' originally released in 1990.

1. Out There (featuring Lali Puna) 2. The Words (featuring Amiina) 3. My Favourite Hat 4. Out of Here 5. Perfect Wound (featuring Steve Jansen) 6. The Muse 7. Emerger (featuring Keigo Oyamada a.ka. Cornelius 8. Atomic Chicken Dog (featuring Atom) 9. You've Got to Hide Your Love Away 10. Indefinable Point (featuring Steve Jansen) 11. Meteor Rain - Leonids on the Morning of November 17th (featuring Lali Puna & Amiina) 12. Valerie

2 CD collection of Takahashi's best tracks from his six albums released from Alfa Records; Neuromantic (1981), Boku Daijobu (What? Me Worry?) (1982), Barairo no Ashita (Tomorrow's Just Another Day) (1983), Time and Place (1984), Wild and Moody (1984), Shigatsu no Sakana (1985).

CD1. 1. Glass 2. Connection 3. New (Red) Roses 4. Drip Dry Eyes 5. Curtains 6. Something in the Air 7. What Me Worry? 8. It's Gonna Work Out 9. Sayonara 10. Flashback 11. Honto no Kimi - The Real You 12. Disposable Love 13. All You've Got to Do 14. Hakugin wa Manekuyo 15. Are You Receiving Me? (Single Version) 16. And I Belive in You

CD2. 1. Ripple 2. My Bright Tomorrow 3. Kagerou 4. Rokugatsu no Tenshi 5. Zencho 6. Another Door (TRA 60 sec. version) 7. Another Door 8. Happiness is Happening 9. Stranger Things Have Happened 10. Kill That Thermostat 11. Walking to the Beat (Australian Single Edit) 12. Kimi ni Surprise 13. Shigatsu no Sakana - Poisson d'Avril (single version) 14. Door o Akereba 15. Good Time 16. Kyo Koi ga


Price:   £33.99

Selection of tracks from albums released by EMI between 1988 and 1996.

CD1. 1. Namonai Renai 2. Watermelon 3. Suteki na Hito 4. Flashlight 5. 4.30am no Yeti 6. Fait Accompli 7. Dance of Life 8. Yes 9. Otoko ni Oite 10. Everyday Life 11. Rehabilitain 12. Kami o Wasurete, Iwaeyo X'mas Time 13. Left Bank (Sagan) 14. Ano Kumo wa, Kyo 15. Boku wa Unmei o Shinjinai 16. Shiawase ni Narouyo 17. Futari de Kurashite mitaine

CD2. 1. 1% no Kankei 2. Aozora 3. Komiageru Namida to Kimi no tameni 4. Saenai Kimochi 5. Kuki Suudake 6. Erotic 7. 360 degrees 8. Betsun-ni 9. Forever Bursting into Flame 10. Furueru Hoshi 11. 6,000,000 no Tengoku 12. Xmas Day in the Next Life 13. Ai wa Tsuyoi - Stronger Than Iron 14. Ashinaga Ojisan ni Narezuni 15. Umibe no Ie 16. Genki nara Ureshiine 17. Nightingale in Heaven

Takahashi's first solo album originally released in 1978. SHM-CD re-release of 2005 digiitally remastered version. Co-produced by Ryuichi Sakamoto with Haruomi Hosono on bass. Lush orchestral arrangements by Sakamoto, more pop than technopop.

1. Volare 2. Saravah! 3. C'est si Bon 4. La Rosa 5. Mood Indigo 6. Elastic Dummy 7. Sunset 8. Midnight Queen 10. Present


Price:   £23.99

Originally released in 1980, second solo album. SHM-CD of 2005 digitally remastered version. All songs are in English (lyrics by Chris Mosdell) with Hosono and Sakamoto contributing a song each and performing. Other guests include Sandii, Sheena, Hideki Matsutake and Hajime Tachibana. Considered a bit of a technopop classic.

1. School of Thought 2. Murdered by the Music 3. Kid-Nap, The Dreamer 4. I-Kasui 5. Radio Activist 6. Number from a Calculated Conversation 7. Bijin-Kiyoshi at the Swimming School 8. Blue Color Worker 9. Stop in the Name of Love 10. Mirrormanic 11. The Core of Eden

Originally released in 1988. Features Sakamoto and Hosono, Kenji Omura, Ray Ohara and Iva Davies of Icehouse. Excellent album of electronic pop music.

1. Tomorrow Never Knows 2. Look of Love 3. Erotic 4. Asairo no Tameiki 5. Sea of Change 6. Dance of Life 7. Yes 8. Left Bank 9. Only the Heart has Heard


Price:   £23.99

Originally released in 1990. Another excellent technopop album during one of Takahashi's best periods.

1. Tenngoku Kara no Chuukei 2. 6,000,000 no Tengoku 3. Fait Accompli 4. 4.30am no Yeti 5. 1% no Kankei 6. The Sensual Object Dance 7. Samishisa no Sentaku 8. Forever Bursting into Flame 9. Rehabilitation 10. What the World Needs Now is Love

Originally released in 1991. Guests include Kenji Omura, Keichi Suzuki and Steve Jansen.

1. Only Love Can Break Your Heart 2. Furueru Hoshi 3. Ai Wa Tsuyoi Stonger than Iron 4. 360 degrees 5. Kuuki Suudake 6. Betsu-ni 7. Everyday Life 8. Xmas Day in the Next Life 9. Kami wo Wasurete Iwaeyo Xmas Time 10. Nightingale in Heaven


Price:   £23.99

Originally released in 1993. Acoustic based performances of previous songs in a kind of unplugged style.

1. 1% no Kankei 2. Kimi to Iru 3. Kagerou 4. Maeburu 5. Kyo no Sora 6. Kimi ni Surprise 7. Chotto Tsurainda 8. Saravah! 9. Drip Dry Eyes 10. 4.30am no Yeti 11. Left Bank 12. Genki Nara Ureshiine

Originally released in 1992. Another outing of mostly acoustic instruments and sounds.

1. Genki Nara Ureshii Ne 2. Otoko ni Oite 3. Suteki na Hito 4. Follow you Down 5. Good Days, Bad Days 6. Fathers 7. Pursuit of Happiness 8. Happy Children 9. Mis 10. Shiawase ni Narouyo 11. Kouhuku no Chosh


Price:   £23.99

Recorded live in Tokyo April 1991. Mostly acoustic folk style with a really tight band. Yukihiro Takahashi plays vocals, guitars and keyboards backed up by Steve Jansen (drums, bass, vocals) Ray Ohara (bass) Kyon (Bo-Gumbos) keyboards, and guest vocalist Keichi Suzuki of Moonriders. This is a 2 CD set with main set and encore set.

CD1. Main Act Disc 1. Arigato 2. Only Love Can Break Your Heart 3. Betsu-ni 4. Forever Bursting into Flame 5. Fait Accompli 6. Kikansha 7. Left Bank 8. Chotto Tsurainda 9. 6,000,000 no Tengoku 10. Kami wo Wasurete Iwaeyo Xmas Time 11. Xmas Day in the Next Life 12. 1% no Kankei Ai 13. Kuuki Suudake 14. Ai wa Tsuyoi Stronger Than Iron 15. Everyday Life 16. Furueru Hoshi

CD2. Encore Disc 1. Member Introductions 2. Murdered by the Music 3. Disposable Love 4. What the World Needs Now is Love 5. Paraiso

Originally released in 1994.

1. Taxman 2. Futari de Kurashite Mitaine 3. Wind that Blow to Bikal 4. Nidome no Hatsukoi 5. Seiippai no Hohoem 6. Bokutachi ga Kiss Wo Suru Wake 7. In this Life 8. Aozora 9. Izukoe 10. Hoshikuzu no Machi


Price:   £23.99

Originally released in 1998.

1. Hole in My Shoe 2. Namo Nai Renai 3. Oishii Mizu 4. Owaranai Tabi 5. Field Glass 6. Nagareboshi Hitotsu 7. Donna Iikoto 8. Ashinaga Ojisan ni Narezuni 9. Anokumo wa Kyo 10. I'll Be Home

Originally released in 1998.

1. I Need You 2. A Ray of Hope 3. Te o Nobaseba - A Touch of Love 4. Iron Man 5. The Choice 6. Taisetuna Hito - Voice of Earth II 7. Memory Without Consequence 8. Inu ni Naretara 9. Boku wa Matteruyo 10. Run After You (London Remix)


Price:   £23.99

Originally released in 1999. Slightly updated version of technopop, featuring Steve Jansen as guest.

1. Sekaiju ga I Love You - Everyone Says I Love You 2. Kaze ni Tsuzuku Michi 3. For Men - Medicines on the Life 4.Nantonaku Beatnik de Ikutsumori datta 5. Kyo no Eien 6. '00 7. This Beginning 8. Re Up 9. Kakaru Omoi 10. Post Re Up, plus some bonus tracks.

Originally released in 1997. Mini album plus bonus track.

1. Run After You 2. A Sigh of Ghost 3. Inu ni Naretara 4. A Smile 5. Trajcomedy 6. Set Sail

Price:   £23.99

Originally released in 1995.

1. Boku wa Unmei o Shinjinai 2. The Look of Love 3. Saeni Kimochi 4. Merci Boku 5. Flash Light 6. Konna Boku (Kimi wa Mada Wakai) 7. 10 gatsu no Koi 8. Umibe no Ie 9. Bokutachi no Shiawase 10. Fate of Gold

Takahashi's first album that he recorded for Pony Canyon. Originally released in 1985.

1. Harukanaru Omoi 2. Fuyu no Sillhouete 3. Providence 4. Shigoto o Oeta Bokutachi wa 5. One More Chance 6. Sailor 7. I saw the light 8. Konchuki 9. Nakitai Kimochi 10. Kyo no Sora


Price:   £20.99

Originally released in 1987. Instrumentals produced for a Yohji Yamamoto fashion show. Compuerized sounds plus piano.

1. Parfum de L'aube 2. Memoires D'un Homme 3. Memoires D'une Femme 4. Brise 5. Entracte 6. Parano-Mania 7. Voyage a Travers Le Futurproche 8. Les Filles Qui Arrivent de la Chine 9. Old Step 10. Professeur 'Fate' 11. Bondissement 12. Errance

Originally released in 1990.

1. Weekend 2. Solution 3. Life Like a River 4. Ima no Boku Kara..5. Episode 87 6. Camp 7. Ie ni Kaeritai 8. Yume Kara Sametata 9. Moolight Feels Right


Price:   £20.99

First solo artist release for five years with 12 newly written tracks. This edition comes with minimal packaging on digipack tray.

1. Hibari 2. Hwit 3. Still life 4. In the Red 5. Tama 6. Nostalgia 7. Firewater 8. Disko 9. Ice 10. Glacier 11. To Stanford 12. Composition 0919.

Limited edition release of Sakamoto's first 'artist' release in five years. Comes in DVD tall size case with 60 page booklet.

1. Hibari 2. Hwit 3. Still life 4. In the Red 5. Tama 6. Nostalgia 7. Firewater 8. Disko 9. Ice 10. Glacier 11. To Stanford 12. Composition 0919.

Price:   £37.99

2 CD set, recorded in London June 2008. YMO played at London's Royal Festival Hall as part of the Meltdown Festival curated by Massive Attack. This is a recording of that concert. 18 tracks. Ryuichi Sakamoto, Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi were joined by three other musicians Ren Takada (pedal steel) Tomohiko Gondo (HD operation, euphonium) and Christian Fennesz (guitar / electronics). Visuals by Shoko Ise.

CD1 and 2- LONDONYMO - Yellow Magic Orchestra Live in London 15/6/08

CD1. 1. I-Shin Den-Shin 2. Sportsmen 3. Fly Me to the River 4. Mars 5. Flakes 6. Riot in Lagos 7. Ongaku 8. Rescue 9. Turn Turn 10. Tokyo Town Pages 11. The City of Light CD2. 1. Supreme Secret 2. Wonderful to Me 3. Tibetan Dance 4. War and Peace 5. Rydeen 79/07 (encore 1) 6. Chronograph (encore 2) 7. Cue

2 CD set, recorded at Laboral Ciudad de la Cultura in Gijon, Spain, June 2008. This is a recording of that concert. 16 tracks. Ryuichi Sakamoto, Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi were joined by three other musicians Ren Takada (pedal steel) Tomohiko Gondo (HD operation, euphonium) and Christian Fennesz (guitar / electronics). Visuals by Shoko Ise.

CD1 & 2 - GIONYMO -Yellow Magic Orchestra Live in Gijon 19/06/08

1. I-Shin-Den-Shin 2. Mars 3. Chronograph 4. Flakes 5. Rescue 6. Ongaku 7. Turn Turn 8. Tokyo Town Pages 9. The City of Light 10. Wonderful to Me 11. Tibetan Dance 12. Supreme Secret 13. War and Peace 14. Riot in Lagos (encore 1) 15. Rydeen 79/07 (encore 2) 16. Cue

Price:   £23.99

Ryuichi Sakamoto, Haruomo Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi as HASYMO release a maxi single of 2 tracks plus their ambient versions. The City of Light is the theme song to the long running news programme News 23, while Tokyo Town Pages is the ending theme to the film, Tokyo!. 1. The City of Light 2. Tokyo Town Pages 3. The City of Light (Ambient Version) 4. Tokyo Town Pages (Ambient Version).

Pupa is the new group of Yukihiro Takahashi (YMO, Sadistic Mika Band, Sketch Show etc..) together with a supergroup of musicians, Tomoyo Harada (vocals) Hiroshi Takano (guitar) Ren Takada (guitar) Hirohisa Horie (keyboards) and Tomohiko Gondo (electronics). Catchy, feel-good electro-pop. 1. Jargon - What' Pupa 2. At Dawn 3. Creaks 4. Anywhere 5. Tameiki 6. Unfixed Stars 7. Glass 8. How? 9. Laika 10. Floating Pupa 11. Marimo 12. Sunny Dale Blue 13. New Order 14. Home of My Heart 15. Cicada


Price:   £23.99

HASYMO (Human Audio Sponge Yellow Magic Orchestra) is the melding of these two projects featuring Ryuichi Sakamoto, Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi. This DVD is of live footage from a charity concert held on 19th May 2007 at Pacifico Yokohama. The trio played both old YMO classics and new tunes. Comes with NHK TV footage about the live concert. 1. Inshin Denshin (YMO) 2. Sportman (Haruomi Hosono / Philharmony) 3. Fly Me To The River (Sketch Show / Loophole) 4. Mars (Sketch Show / Loophole) 5. Flakes (Sketch Show / Loophole), 6. Everybody Had a Hard Year (Marz cover) 7. Riot in Lagos (Ryuichi Sakamoto / B-2 Unit) 8. Ongaku (YMO / Uwaki na Bokura) 9. Rescue / HASYMO 10. Turn Turn (Sketch Show / Audio Sponge) 11. Supreme Secret (Sketch Show / Audio Sponge) 12. Wonderful To Me (Sketch Show / Audio Sponge) 13. War & Peace (Ryuichi Sakamoto / Chasm) 14. Rydeen 79/07 (YMO / Solid State Survivor) plus anchor :15. Chrono Graph (Sketch Show / Loophole) 16. Ekot (Sketch Show / Loophole) 17. Cue (YMO / BGM) (encore)

Human Audio Sponge is Sketch Show ( Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi) plus Ryuichi Sakamoto. In other words a reincarnation of the seminal YMO. This DVD features live footage from Barcelona and Tokyo in 2004, plus interviews and a documentary.

Price:   £46.99

Sketch Show is ex-YMO members Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi. Live from December 2002, this Tokyo concert also features Keigo Oyamada (Cornelius) Ryuichi Sakamoto and others. Cutting edge electronic dance music, in addition to tracks from Sketch Show albums, they perform a YMO medley.

Originally released in 1987, one of Sakamoto's best albums and his first foray into 'world music'. A stellar list of collaborators includes Iggy Pop, Bill Laswell, Bootsy Collins, Tony Williams and Sly Dunbar. Sakamoto used the latest technology of the day to blend various musics, such as Okinawan, Indonesian, Chinese, jazz and funk together in a clever and imaginative way.

1. Before Long 2. Neo Geo 3. Risky 4. Free Trading 5. Shogunade 6. Parata 7. Chinuku Jushi 8. After All.


Price:   £19.99

Limited edition of above CD with DVD of music video to Risky featuring Iggy Pop.

Live DVD plus CD of a concert by Ryuichi Sakamoto together with Alva Noto (Carsten Nicolai) and the Ensemble Modernes in Mannaheim, Germany, November 2007. Electronics plus classical music, the live DVD has various off stage footage, while the CD is just one track but it is 72 minutes long.


Price:   £45.99

Life- Fluid, Invisible, Inaudble is an istallation by Ryuichi Sakamoto and Shiro Takatani, which was exhibited in Yamaguchi and ICC in 2007. The exhibition was captured on video, recomposed into a new video work and turned into a DVD. The work surrounds the viewer with stereo images and split screen video to create an installation space that reinterprets the original work into a new audio-visual experience.

Recording from December 2005 of a concert at which Ryuichi Sakamoto played many of his best known tunes. These include Energy Flow, Asience, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence and Shining Boy & Little Randy. 21 tracks.


Price:   £33.99

Soundtrack by Ryuichi Sakamoto to the film 'Silk', directed by Francois Girard about a French silkworm merchant who goes to Japan to find silkworms but instead finds a Japanese woman. No surprise there then, the twist being she's the concubine of a rich baron. 21 tracks.

Soundtrack to the 2006 Japanese film, directed by Jun Ichikawa, based on a novel by Haruki Murakami and starring Issei Ogata and Rie Miyazawa. Tony Takitani, an emotionally impotent techincal illustrator, falls in love with Eiko and feels the joys of life and love for the first time. However her obsession with shopping for brand goods (rather common in Japan!) has tragic consequences. 11 tracks.


Price:   £16.99

Susan is best known for collaborating with members of YMO and gained a cult following in Japan and around the world. Born to a Japanese mother and American father she had a pop and acting career in the 70s before meeting Yukihiro Takahashi of YMO who helped relaunch her career. As well as featuring all three members of YMO, her album 'Do You Believe in Mazik?' had contributions from other luminaries such as Makoto Kubota and Kenji Omura. She was launched in Europe alongside YMO, Sandii & The Sunsetz and Ippu-Do in a campaign called 'Music from the Land of the Rising Sun.' She recorded another album with YMO members called 'The Girl Can't Help It' that also featured Masami Tsuchiya of Ippu-Do, Shigeru Umebayashi (from EX) and Sandii. The 2 CD set Complete Susan features both these albums plus singles released onto CD for the first time. CD1. Modern Flower in Boots 2. 24,000 kai no Kiss 3. Dream of You 4. Do you Believe in Magic? 5. Ah! Soka 6. Freezin'Fish Under the Moonlight 7. Glass Girl 8. It's No Time for You to Cry 9. Screamer CD2. 1. You're My Number One 2. Koi Seyo Otome 3. Training 4. Blow -Up 5. I Need Your Love 6. I Only Love Out at Night 7. Go Go 8. Nuit de Saint-Germain 9. Tokyo Sue 10. My Love 11. Modern World 12. Samurukand Odori 13. Chavon Doll 14. Koi wa Dance.

Back in April and May 1979, the highly rated jazz fusion guitarist recorded with Ryuichi Sakamoto (keyboards) and also producer of this album, fellow YMO member Yukihiro Takahashi on drums, Akiko Yano on keyboards and vocals, plus Yasuaki Shimizu (saxophone) and other highly rated musicians such as Shuichi 'Ponta' Murakami (drums) and Toshiyuki Honda (saxophones). Some tracks are straight jazz fusion, others an unlikely but interesting mix of fusion with YMO style electronic backing.


Price:   £16.99

Anonymoss are four artists,Tomohiko Gondo (eufonium), Tetsuya Yamamoto (keyboards), Seigen Tokuzawa (cello) and Tomoko Kanda (vocals). They were one of the artists featured on the excellent Penguin Cafe Orchestra tribute album last year, and this time they cover YMO tunes on acoustic instruments and electronics with some guest musicians such as Masato Suzuki, Ren Takada, Hiroshi Takano, Asa-Chang and Soichiro Suzuki. 1. Behind 2. See-Through 3. Focus 4. Happy End 5. Wild Ambitions 6. Mass &. Kimi ni Mune Kyun 8. Nice Age 9. Cue 10. Gegou 11. Insomnia 12. Castalia 13. Epilogue

Ryuichi Sakamoto, Makoto Kubota, Cornelius, Kahimi Karie and others are the unlikely artists to cover some of the best know Japanese 'shoka' songs. Shoka are songs devised for musical education in Japanese elementary schools, many of which were derived from western folk songs. Following a flirtation with militaristic meaning in pre-war days, now shoka are thought of as being the symbol of what is good about Japanese values and customs. 10 tracks. 1.Haruo Minami + Cornelius - Aka-tombo 2.Kirinji - Hanyu no Yado 3.Ryuichi Sakamoto + Miki Nakatani - Chiisai Aki Mitsuketra 4.Sayuri Kume - Ryoshu 5.Morio Agata - Mori no Kobito 6.Taeko Onuki - Kono Michi 7.Kiseru - Kanariya 8.Aki Yashiro - Shojoji no Tanuki-bayashi 9.Ren Takada - Aka-tombo 10.Yan Tomita (Doopees) - Yagisan Yubin 11.Kahimi Kahri + Yoshihide Otomo - Karatachi no Hana


Price:   £23.99

Volume 2 of the excellent 'Japanese Songs' series- famous lyrical songs and childrens songs performed by some of Japan's coolest electronic artists. 10 tracks including Yukihiro Takahashi / Shabon-dama, Kenji Endo / Koganemushi, Tomoyo Harada + Keiichi Suzuki / Amefuri Kumanoko, Mitsuko Koike + Tomoki Kanda / Yashi no Mi and Yuichi Ohata / Oborozukiyo.

Volume 3 of the popular series of Japanese childrens and lyrical songs surpervised by Ryuichi Sakamoto. Artists on this one include Moussir Kamayatsu and Keiichi Sogabe (Sunny Day Service).


Price:   £24.99

Latest in the excellent series released on Ryuchi Sakamoto's Commmons label. This is an album of 11 winter themed children's and lyrical songs, that most people in Japan would know, but are performed in a totally original style by a stellar list of innovative musicians. Tracks include Aoi Tejima + Ryuichi Sakamoto / Yuki no Furu Machio, Nobuyasu Okabayashi / Toudaimori, Chocolate + Shimmy / Fuyu no Seiza, Inotomo + Piranians / Kogitsune, Takako Minekawa + Rei Harakami / Petika, Uri Nakayama / Takbi plus tracks by Haruomi Hosono, Chitose Hajime and others.

Collaboration album of Ryuichi Sakamoto together with San Francsico based guitarist and multimedia artist Christopher Willits. Willits uses a guitar with custom-made signal processing creating a mix of acoustic and electronic sounds, improvisation, rhythm and sound texture. Fascinating album of 7 tracks. 1. Toward Water 2. Umi 3. Sea Plains 4. Sentience 5. Chi-yu 6. Cold Heat 7. Ocean Sky Remains.


Price:   £20.99

Double A Side CD single. HASYMO (Human Audio Sponge Yellow Magic Orchestra) with Rescue the theme tune to E-Machina (anime film) plus YMO with a re-recording of their classic Rydeen, which has been used in Japan on a TV commecial for Kirin Lager.

DVD of YMO from their first world tour in 1979 'Trans Atlantic' through to their last Budokan performance in 1983 plus promo video clips and TV commercials their music has been used on. 1. Opening- Castalia (LA Greek Theatre 1979) 2. Behind The Mask (LA Greek Theatre 1979) 3. Cosmic Surfin' (LA Greek Theatre 1979) 4. Rydeen (LA Greek Theatre 1979) 5.Tong Poo (LA Greek Theatre 1979) 6. Radio Junk (private shot in London, 1979) 7. Firecracker (New York, Hurrah, 1979) 8. Solid State Survivor (New York, Hurrah, 1979) 9. Day Tripper (New York, Hurrah, 1979) 10. Fuji Cassette (commercial film, Technopolis, 2 mins) 11. Technopolis (Hit Studio, 1980) 12 Fuji Cassette commerical film, 30 secs) 13 Tighten Up (Fuji TV YMO special 1980) 14. Rydeen (Fuji TV YMO special 1980) 15. La Femme Chinoise (Nippon Budokan, 1980) 16. Citizens Of Science (Nippon Budokan, 1980) 17. Fuji Cassette commercial film (Technopolis 30 secs) 18 BCM commercial film 19. Taiso (video clip) 20. Stairs (Shinjuku Koma Gekijo, 1981) 21. Neue Tanz (Shinjuku Koma Gekijo, 1981) 22. Cue (Fuji Television, Music Fair 1982) 23. Kimi Ni Mune Kyun (video clip) 24. Ongaku (Nippon Budokan, 1983) 25. Shadows On The Ground (Nippon Budokan, 1983) 26. Expecting Rivers (Nippon Budokan, 1983) 27. You've Got To Help Yourself (Fuji TV, Hit Studio, 1983) 28. Kimi Ni Mune Kyun (making of video clip).


Price:   £37.99

Recorded live from Dec 22 -24 at Shinjuku Koma Gekijo, 1981. 1. Prologue 2. Pure Jam 3. Light in Darkness 4 Camouflage 5. Stairs 6. Neue Tanz 7. Happy End 8. Music Plans 9. Cue 10. Taiso 11. Cosmic Surfin' 12. Epilogue.

A tribute to the Penguin Cafe Orchestra by Japanese artists who were influenced by this unclassifiable British group. These include Ryuichi Sakamoto, Yukihiro Takahashi, Masakatsu Takagi, Kama Aina, Moose Hill, Takako Minekawa, plus The Other 4, Steve Jansen, and others.


Price:   £22.99

Excellent cyberspace collaboration album between Ryuichi Sakamoto (piano/laptop) and Christian Fennesz (guitar/laptop). Recorded between 2004-2006 through sound files sent between New York and Vienna they came together for the mix in New York. Blend of electronic improvisation with Satie like piano from Sakamoto. 11 tracks, challenging and innovative.

How's this for an ecclectic release? Originally released on LP in 1975, a children's choir sings songs themed around the Ainu, some in the Ainu language with lyrics by Kohei Oikawa, music by Ryuichi Sakamoto, who also arranged the songs together with Tatsuro Yamashita of the legendary group Sugar Babe. 12 songs.


Price:   £23.99

Excellent YMO Best Of compilaiton. This is a re-release from 1999, compiled by Haruomi Hosono, including 2 unreleased tracks at the time, La Femme Chinoise and Where Have All the Flowers Gone? (acoustic versions) 2 CDs. Full Track Listing. Disc 1. 1. Jingle YMO 2. Rydeen 3. Behind the Mask 4. Insomnia 5. Cue 6. U-T 7. Nice Age 8. Taiso 9. Cosmic Surfin 10. Ishin Denshin 11. Pocket ga Niji de Ippai 12. Hai Kaji (Special DJ Copy) 13. La Femme Chinoise (acoustic version) 14. Firecracker Disc 2. 1. Multiples 2. Tighten Up (A&M mix) 3. Simoon 4. Citizens of Science 5. Camouflage 6. Graduated Grey 7. Pure Jam 8. Lotus Love 9. Kimi ni Munekyun (Uwaki na Vacance) 10. Shadows on the Ground 11. Be a Superman 12. Where Have all the Flowers Gone (acoustic version) 13. Technopolis 14. The End of Asia.

Re-release of Yellow Magic Orchestra Live Best album, as chosen by Yukihiro Takahashi, with new artwork and new tracks from reuinion concert at Tokyo Dome and featuring live recordings of their first overseas tour in 1970. 1. Snakeman Show in Budokan (1980) 2. Rydeen (1980, Nippon Budokan) 3, Behind The Mask (1979, Greek Theatre, Los Angeles) 4. Cosmic Surfin (1979, Greek Theatre, Los Angeles) 5. Day Tripper (1979, New York Bottom Line) 6. Solid State Survivor (1980, A&M Chaplin Studio, Los Angeles) 7. La Femme Chinoise (1979, New York Bottom Line) 8.Castalia (1979, New York Bottom Line) 9. Tong Poo (1979, London, The Venue) 10. 1000 Knives (1979, London, The Venue) 11. Green Back Dollar (1980, Nippon Budokan) 12. Pure Jam (1981, Shinjuku Koma Gekijo) 13. Seoul Music (1981, Shinjuku Koma Gekijo) 14. Mass (1981, Shinjuku Koma Gekijo) 15. Wild Ambitions (1983, Nippon Budokan) 16. I Tre Merli (1993, Tokyo Dome) 17. Technopolis (1979, London, The Venue).


Price:   £21.99

Yellow Magic Orchestra have attracted such a large cult following, there has long been a huge demand for their unreleased rare tracks. This box set finally satisfies that demand. 8 CDs, disc 1 'Live at Kinokuniya Hall'(Tokyo 1978), disc 2 'Live at Green Theatre' (Los Angeles 1979), disc 3 & 4 'Faker Holic'(world tour in London, Paris and NY in 1979), disc 5 & 6 'World Tour 1980' (London, Paris, Los Angeles live from their second world tour 'From Tokyo to Tokyo'), disc 7 'One More YMO' (best live album from 1979 to 1993 compiled by Yukihiro Takahashi and released in 2000), disc8 'Rare Tracks' (14 rare tracks). It all comes with a large booklet and colour photos in an extremely nice package.

The Ultimate Collection of YMO does exactly what it says on the tin. 2 CDs of their best tunes from their brief but brilliant career, 1978-1983. 34 tracks. CD 1. Computer Game 2. Firecracker 3. Tong Poo 4. La Femme Chinoise 5. Technopolis 6. Insomnia 7. Rydeen 8. Behind the Mask 9. Solid State Survivor 10. Radio Junk 11. Jingle 'YMO' 12. Nice Age 13. Tighten Up 14. The End of Asia 15. Citizens of Science 16. Hirake Kokoro Jiseiki CD2. 1. Cue 2. Ballet 3. U.T. 4. Gradated Grey 5. Taiso 6. Lover Come Back to Me 7. Kimi ni Mune Kyun 8. Chaos Panic 9. Ongaku 10. Lotus Love 11. Kai-kou 12. Kageki-na Shukujyo 13. The Madmen 14. Ishin Denshin 15. Perspective 16. M-16 17. Pocketful of Rainbows 18. Behind the Mask (Bonus Track Seiko Quartz CM Version).


Price:   £30.99

A best of YMO remixes. Six tracks from the albums 'YMO Remixes 2000-00' and 'YMO Remixes 2000-01' plus 3 tracks only available on vinyl. A stellar cast of remixers include Tei Towa, Fantastic Plastic Machine, Yasuhiro Konishi, Ken Ishii, Dry&Heavy, Denki Groove.

Brilliant album of remixes of Japan's techno pop creators best known material from today's musicians influenced by YMO, including Denki Groove and EyE.


Price:   £23.99

Second volume of YMO remixes of 12 tracks including Technopolis, Seoul Music, Behind the Mask, Pure Jam, remixed by including Yasuhiro Konishi (ex.Pizzicato Five), Ken Ishii, Tei Towa and Yoshinori Sunahara.

3 CDs and 55 Japanese pop songs (kayokyoku) that feature in some capacity (usually written, arranged or performed by) one of YMO, namely Haruomi Hosono, Ryuichi Sakamoto or Yukihiro Takahashi and released between 1979 and 1988. Artists include Haruo Chikada, Sheena and the Rockets, Yoshitaka Minami, Sandii, Taeko Onuki, Susan, Akiko Yano, Hiromi Go, Imokin Trio, Kumiko Yamashita and Seiko Matsuda. Mostly high quality 80s pop music.


Price:   £37.99

2 CDs, 37 tunes. When YMO were in their heyday, they spawned other techno pop groups and artists influenced by YMO. This CD set features some of those singers and groups from the 1980s and 90s, mostly in a pop vain. Artists include Ikue Sakakibara, Pink Lady, Chika Takami, TPO, Hiromi Ota, Tsugutoshi Goto, Naoto Takenaka, Masato Ibu, Bakufu Slamp and Yoko Minamino.

The Toy Box are a group of twelve musicians and three extra percussionists playing acoustic instruments including sax, melodeon, bandoneon, mandolin, flute, picolo, guitars, cello and piano. Fans of the Yellow Magic Orchestra, they decided to do a cover of YMO's first album, totally acoustically. A bizarre idea, considering this was a classic of synthesized techno-pop, but a project that proves these were great songs in the first place. Adding his stamp of approval is Haruomi Hosono, who does the vocals on two of the tracks.


Price:   £23.99

This is Ryuichi Sakamoto's first solo recording released back in 1976 as an analog record of which only 500 copies were ever pressed. Improvisational duo of Sakamoto on piano with percussionist Toshiyuki Tsuchitori. Digitally remastered.

UK top contemporary classical violinist, Alexander Balanescu records album of Yellow Magic Orchestra favourites. Balanescu has already recorded Kraftwerk tunes, and this is in similar vain. Technopolis, Behind the Mask, Solid State Survivor are given a new lease of life. Innovative and expertly performed.


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Yukihiro Takahashi is best known as one of the trio (together with Ryuichi Sakamoto and Haruomi Hosono) of seminal technopop group Yellow Magic Orchestra. Before that he was a member of the Sadistic Mika Band, while currently he is together with Hosono again as Sketch Show. After YMO disbanded, Takahashi went solo and this DVD is of a live performance from this time, in August 1983 at Shibuya Kokaido in Tokyo. His collaborators and featured in his band include Bill Nelson, Keiichi Suzuki of the Moon Riders, Hajime Tachibana, David Palmer and Haruomi Hosono. Guests are Kenji Omura, Yoshiaki Shirai and Hiroyasu Yaguchi. 59 minutes includes comments by Yukihiro Takahashi himself, Hajime Tachibana and Keiichi Suzuki.1.Ripple 2.My Bright Tomorrow 3.Kagerou 4.Maebure 5.Art Diamant 6.Sayonara 7.Flashback 8.The Real You 9.Are You Receiving Me? 10.It's All Too Much 11.It's Gonna Work Out 12.The April Fools

Live concert plus film DVD directed by Toru Kawasaki in 1983. Guests are Haruomi Hosono, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Hajime Tachibana, Keiichi Suzuki, Steve Jansen. 57 minutes includes comments by Yukihiro Takahashi and Toru Kawasaki. 1.Hei no Ana 2.Wild & Moody 3.Stranger Things Have Happened 4.Murdered By The Music 5.Genkan 6.Disposable Love 7.Helpless 8.Takahashi Yukihiro Monogatari 9.Day Tripper 10.The Price To Pay 11.Atto Iuma no Dekigoto


Price:   £38.99

Latest album from Yukihiro Takahashi (ex- Sadistic Mika Band, YMO, Sketch Show) is a delightful blend of electronic pop with collaborators including Steve Jansen, Haruomi Hosono, mostly sung in English. 12 tracks.

Released in 1994 recorded with the help of a host of collaborators, including Tei Towa and Holly Johnson (Frankie Goes to Hollywood) 1.Tokyo Story 2. Moving On (co-producer Satoshi Tomiie, vocals, J-Me , Natasha Latasha Diggs Vivian Sessoms 3. Futari no hate (co-producer, Towa Tei, vocals - Miki Imai) 4.Regret (Co-producer Towa Tei, vocals , J-Me , Natasha Latasha Diggs 5. Pounding At My Heart, co-producer, Satoshi Tomiie, vocals, Paul Alexander , Vivian Sessoms. 6.Love And Hate, vocals, Holly Johnson 7. Sweet Revenge 8. 7 Seconds, Co-producer - Towa Tei , vocals, J-Me , Natasha Latasha Diggs 9. Anna, co-producer, Satoshi Tomiie. 10 Same Dream, Same Destination, vocals - Roddy Frame 11. Psychedelic Afternoon, vocals - Arto Lindsay , Paul Alexander 12. Interruptions- vocals, Natasha Latasha Diggs 13. Kimi to boku to kanojonokoto, vocals - Hiroshi Takano.


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Originally released in 1995. 1.Bibounoaozora 2. Aishiteru, Aishitenai 3.Bring Them Home 4. Aonekonotoruso 5.Tango 6. Insensatez 7. Poesia 8. Dennougiwa 9.Homisphere 10. Manatsu no Yoru no Ana 11. Rio 12. A Day In The Park.

Originally released 1996, this is a re-recorded Best of in a piano, cello and violin trio session. One new track, 1919. 1. A Day A Gorilla Gives Me A Banana 2. Rain 3. Bibo No Aozora 4. The Last Emperor 5. 1919 6. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence 7 M.A.Y. In The Backyard 8.The Sheltering Sky 9. A Tribute To N.J.P. 10. High Heels (Main Theme) 11. Aoneko No Torso 12. The Wuthering Heights 13. Parolibre 14 Acceptance (End Credits) - Little Buddha 15. Before Long 16. Bring Them Home


Price:   £21.99

Original release 1994. Geisha Girls are comedy duo, Downtown (Ken and Sho) or Hama-chan and Ma- chan as they are usually called. They belong to the famous Yoshimoto Kogyo troupe, their comedy of the manzai variety- one serious, one stupid. This is their rap unit, produced by Ryuichi Sakamoto and Tei Towa, a remix of their first single Kick & Loud (T.Mori's Loud Mix and Flying Phat Mix). 5 tracks.

Orignally released in 1995. 17 tracks of comedy, rap and bad singing. Produced by Ryuichi Sakamoto. Collaborators include Tei Towa, Arto Lindsay, Boredoms and Katsuya Kobayashi.


Price:   £21.99