Yellow Magic Orchestra = イエロー・マジック・オーケストラ* – Yellow Magic Orchestra = イエロー・マジック・オーケストラ
Label: | Alfa – ALR-6020 |
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Format: | Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo |
Country: | Japan |
Released: | |
Genre: | Electronic |
Style: | Synth-pop |
Tracklist
| A1 | Computer Game "Theme From The Circus" = コンピューター・ゲーム (サーカスのテーマ) | 1:46 | |
| A2 | Firecracker = ファイアークラッカー | 4:50 | |
| A3 | Simoon = シムーン | 6:27 | |
| A4 | Cosmic Surfin' = コズミック・サーフィン | 4:27 | |
| A5 | Computer Game "Theme From The Invader" = コンピューター・ゲーム (インベーダーのテーマ) | 1:01 | |
| B1 | Yellow Magic (Tong Poo) = イエロー・マジック (東風) | 6:17 | |
| B2 | La Femme Chinoise = 中国女 | 5:57 | |
| B3 | Bridge Over Troubled Music = ブリッジ・オーバー・トラブルド・ミュージック | 1:18 | |
| B4 | Mad Pierrot = マッド・ピエロ | 4:03 |
Companies, etc.
- Manufactured By – Victor Musical Industries, Inc.
- Distributed By – Victor Musical Industries, Inc.
- Copyright © – A&M Records, Inc.
- Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Alfa Records, Inc
- Copyright © – Alfa Music Ltd.
- Copyright © – Exotica Publishing Co.
- Recorded At – Studio A, Shibaura, Tokyo
- Mixed At – Capitol Studios
- Mastered At – The Mastering Lab
- Lacquer Cut At – Victor Company Of Japan, Ltd.
Credits
- Arranged By, Performer – Yellow Magic Orchestra
- Art Direction – Roland Young (3)
- Artwork [Back Cover] – Masayoshi Sukita
- Artwork [Front Cover] – Lou Beach
- Bass, Electronics, Keyboards, Arranged By – Haruomi Hosono
- Coordinator [Recording] – Shunsuke Miyazumi
- Design – Amy Nagasawa, Chuck Beeson
- Drums, Percussion, Electronics, Vocals – Yukihiro Takahashi
- Engineer – Atsushi Saito, Norio Yoshizawa
- Executive-Producer – Kunihiko Murai
- Keyboards, Electronics, Percussion, Orchestrated By – Ryuichi Sakamoto
- Liner Notes – 北中正和*, トミー・リピューマ*
- Mastered By – Mike Reese
- Mixed By – Al Schmitt
- Producer – Alfa Records, Inc., Harry Hosono*
- Programmed By [Micro Composer Programming] – Hideki Matsutake
- Supervised By – Tommy Li Puma*
Notes
This issue has red labels and is the first Japanese pressing of the US remix of the album.
Comes with obi and folded insert with liner notes in Japanese.
Pressed on JVC "SuperVinyl"
Recorded at studio 'A', Shibuya, Tokyo: July 10 to September 5, 1978.
Mixed at Capitol Records Studios, Hollywood: February 12 to February 16, 1979.
Mastered at The Mastering Lab, Hollywood.
Yukihiro Takahashi courtesy of Victor / Invitation.
Back cover:
© 1979 A&M RECORDS, INC. ℗ ALFA RECORDS, INC.
Insert:
© 1978 by ALFA MUSIC LTD.
© Exotica Publishing Co. (1-2)
Comes with obi and folded insert with liner notes in Japanese.
Pressed on JVC "SuperVinyl"
Recorded at studio 'A', Shibuya, Tokyo: July 10 to September 5, 1978.
Mixed at Capitol Records Studios, Hollywood: February 12 to February 16, 1979.
Mastered at The Mastering Lab, Hollywood.
Yukihiro Takahashi courtesy of Victor / Invitation.
Back cover:
© 1979 A&M RECORDS, INC. ℗ ALFA RECORDS, INC.
Insert:
© 1978 by ALFA MUSIC LTD.
© Exotica Publishing Co. (1-2)
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Price Code (List price): ¥2,500
- Matrix / Runout (Label A): ALR-6020-A
- Matrix / Runout (Label B): ALR-6020-B
- Matrix / Runout (Runout A, stamped, variant 1): 〄Ⓑ ALR-6020A 1 1 3 * P
- Matrix / Runout (Runout B, stamped, variant 1): ALR-6020B 1 1 1 * * * * +
- Matrix / Runout (Runout A, stamped, variant 2): 〄Ⓑ ALR 6020A 111**** L
- Matrix / Runout (Runout B, stamped, variant 2): ALR 6020B 111***
- Matrix / Runout (Runout A, stamped, variant 3): 〄Ⓑ ALR-6020A 111⊹⊹ JJ
- Matrix / Runout (Runout B, stamped, variant 3): ALR-6020B 111⊹⊹
- Matrix / Runout (Runout A, stamped, variant 4): 〄Ⓑ ALR-6020A 111⊹⊹⊹⊹⊹ II
- Matrix / Runout (Runout B, stamped, variant 4): ALR-6020B 111⊹⊹⊹
Other Versions (5 of 83)
View All| Title (Format) | Label | Cat# | Country | Year | |||
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Recently Edited | Yellow Magic Orchestra = イエロー・マジック・オーケストラ (LP, Album) | Alfa | ALR-6012 | Japan | 1978 | ||
New Submission | Yellow Magic Orchestra = イエロー・マジック・オーケストラ (Cassette, Album) | Alfa | ALC-1511 | Japan | 1978 | ||
New Submission | Yellow Magic Orchestra = イエロー・マジック・オーケストラ (LP, Album, Misprint) | Alfa | ALR-6012 | Japan | 1978 | ||
Recently Edited | Yellow Magic Orchestra (LP, Album) | A&M Records, A&M Records | AMLH 68506, SP-736 | Europe | 1979 | ||
| Yellow Magic Orchestra (LP, Album, Pitman Pressing) | Horizon (3) | SP-736 | US | 1979 |
Recommendations
1979 JapanVinyl —LP, Album
1980 JapanVinyl —LP, Album, Repress, Stereo
Reviews
- Clearly better than the US release.
Fantastic record !
The first Japanese release, with the different sleeve, is also amazing, and i think even better than this one (more sweet, less punchy, but with a wonderful alternative production by Hosono) 
The first Japanese pressing of the US remix album ? I don't know about the mixage on the first pressing, if we can dinstinguish something really different in the sound.
But I guess, the Cover of this one (The First US pressing) is more in adequation with the music of the album at some points.
The Woman on the cover, maybe she represent the track "La Femme chinoise" and this air, her style correspond well at eletronic movements and movement in general, of the Yellow Magic Orchestra (album). This cover correspond more of the second face of this album. By the way, when the second part album start, between "Tong Poo" and "Mad Pierrot", she never stoped before the end of the last song. This is like one amazing giant song , with somes womens voice to guide us through. May they represented the woman on the cover ?
The Face A of the album is delimited between "Computer Game (Theme from 'The Circus')" and "computer Game "Theme From The Invader"" these both effects are the line of this first part.
So I have nothing agaisnt the first cover of this album. It's just an analysis of these kind covers.
These elements make feel this album in two differents parts, with two differents covers, one seems definetly more coherent !
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