YMO Technopolis Live

[eddXmoakaesp]

civilization, justice? 0:43

[RADIOKLOW]

This is astonishing ! I love the attitude, both serious and cool, of these musicians playing this crazy wonderful dancing music ! It is a true performance !

[skippy180864]

:)

superb ! nice post

[MAKOTOMAGIC1990]

勘違いかもしれないけど、この時のTECHNOPOLISはギタ­ーの音が聞こえないのとシーケンスフレーズが少ないのは気のせい­？

[RevesbyReg]

I love this but I have no clue what he is saying?

[Vanishing85]

@RevesbyReg T-E-C-H-N-O-P-O-L-I-S



[DeeoftheWhy3]

@RevesbyReg tokyo. tokyo and then the letters are T-E-C-H-N-O-P-O-L-I-S and then after that he says tokyo.

[ikamusume0715]

やっぱり原曲にあるスラップ音？の「ベーン・ベン」ってのが欲し­いなあ

[Ryunam]

Fantastic piece!

[tdomon]

「T.e.c.h.n.o.p.o.l.i.s」の後、何て言っ­てるか解らなかったが、

「TOKIO」って言ってるように聞こえたが？

[DOBA25TUCHI109B]

素晴らしいですね！！！

Thank you♪

[MrTOMOMORI]

夜のヒットスタジオのYMO動画が最近減ってきている中で、KE­EPされているのがありがたいです。



[midgetsow]

What? How did I not know about YMO for 23 years? The coolest thing on the planet and NO ONE BOTHERED TO TELL ME THEY EXIST?

[type261]

ワーキングニュー？

[JMBZ78]

Ryuichi Sakamoto one of the geatest composers of our times...

[440whitesnake]

今で言うトランスの原点みたいなものじゃないか。

[juntaku73]

21世紀を夢見ていた。しかし現実の21世紀は.....無念

[MsHirokku]

当時、見逃したなぁ~ｗ

[poolwaiter]

I've watched this video at least 100 times.  I still, for the life of me, can't tell what the guitarist is playing. He's not fooling anyone. He might as well be holding a tuba.

[DarkSnake153]

@poolwaiter From what I'm told he helped write a few songs so they let him play at their concerts. Whatever he's playing was cut out from whatever media this was taken from.

[UncleSamEagle]

this very video was my first exposure to YMO, bout a few years ago.

pretty sure this was the only song i listened to that whole month

[lange19891989]

(^_−)−☆

[brismike65]

Aside from Underworld, The Prodigy, Bloody Beetroots and Chemical Brothers, no one is really doing innovative live synth music like this

[NESCASTER]

あらためて見ると、YMOってスッゲーな！

細野さんとユキヒロさんのドラムのグルーブ感も凄い！！

[HeskethBang]

Mad thing is, although they're from Japan, home of some of the coolest synths, they're all playing american Moogs, Prophets and ARP's!

[matrixsynth]

@HeskethBang I always wondered about that myself! I was going to ask in this new post but realized they had Roland in their 1980 Firecracker live performance. I'd put a link here but YouTube doesn't allow it. Click through the matrixsynth link in this post or just type it in your address bar. It will bring you to MATRIXSYNTH. Type YMO Firecracker in the top search box on the right and it will be the first result.

[ExtraClassyWesChang]

@HeskethBang Technopolis was written in 1979 before many of the classic Japanese synths. They later used the Roland TR-808 on their 1981 album BGM.

The band was directly inspired by Kraftwerk so the European influence is certainly there. Also the members of YMO are classically trained just like the members of Kraftwerk.

[sparky4444444444444]

@ExtraClassyWesChang

ohh shi-

[zjbeast]

I'm sorry its Haruomi Hosono. with the cig in his mouth. My bad...

[zjbeast]

@matrixsynth I'm sorry its Haruomi Hosono.

[wwolfvct]

アキバの石丸でYMOレコードを買って帰る途中、歯がない見事な­までのDQN2人組みにからまれ「兄ちゃん電車賃化してくれよ」­、おっ！？イイモンもってんじゃねーかとYMOの買ったばかりの­レコードも盗られそうになったですがなんとか死守し、小銭のみカ­ツアゲされますた（５００円）。そんなYMOの曲、特にテクノポ­リスを聴くとマヌケなカツアゲ体験が昨日のことのように思い出さ­れます。＼（＾o＾）／

[wwolfvct]

アキバの石丸でYMOレコードを買って帰る途中、歯がない見事な­までのDQN2人組みにからまれ「兄ちゃん電車賃化してくれよ」­、おっ！？イイモンもってんじゃねーかとYMOの買ったばかりの­レコードも盗られそうになったですがなんとか死守し、小銭のみカ­ツアゲされますた（５００円）。そんなYMOの曲、特にテクノポ­リスを聴くとマヌケなカツアゲ体験が昨日のことのように思い出さ­れます。＼（＾o＾）／

[TiramisuHappy]

I LOVE the fact that my hometown has inspired so many great songs/tunes over the years in the history of modern music!

Tokyo ROXSSS!!!!

[TiramisuHappy]

Having seen their shows a handful of times back in the day, I can honestly say that their live performances are often quite a departure from their original sound on the record. But this one is almost a reproduction with complete fidelity to the original recording on The Solid State Survivor album.

Lovin' it!

[gohanhaoishiina]

ハリーが口にくわえているのは、

チュッパチャップスで、甘党の彼には欠かせないものと聞いたこと­はあるが。

[kikihnl77]

Ichiko Hashimoto good job!

[Jimothyp]

Anybody know what synth Hosono san has under the OB he's playing? It's also in the RYDEEN video

[sergeeo]

cigarette or chupa-chups?

love this one!

[XATHPRAC]

30年(?)前生まれて初めて聴いたYMOがこの曲でした。衝撃­を受けてすぐにレコード店に直行!!シングル盤を擦り切れるまで­聴き続けたのを覚えています。YMOといえばやはりこの曲でしょ­う。

[Cyberzinho]

Love!!!!!

[MrSKINFLICK]

Kraftwerk should hide in the cellar after hearing this !

Now THIS is influential electronic avantgarde pop music.

Kraftwerk are absurdly overrated in their influence on following music generations,i have nothing against Kraftwerk personally,but their musical concept is too limited+repetitive,apart from their few big hits they don´t inspire.

I got to know Sakamoto (mmh)+another guy of YMO at a Cabaret Voltaire concert in Germany in the early 80s,they seemed to be into lots of sound back then...

[niniko191]

ハリーはなんでタバコくわえてんだろ

[EIZO190]

映像が音楽についていけない

イエローぶっとびです。

[sonic813ao]

すばらしい！！

[werkinwoman83]

Love it! Love it! Love it!

[tigrius]

from VISUAL YMO dvd have this recording

[fightingcomputer]

信頼の外人コメ率

[GXSCChater]

This is my favorite version of Technopolis

[voderick]

Just face the fact´s!

They where 20 years before the rest of the electronic music pack.....

Will always remember the 80`s....YMO.....

// Sweden Fan

[Chipbeat1]

BEST !!! Great !! Love It ! Pioneers of Music

[einenrauchen]

100%

[CodyRicheson]

This reminds me very much of the music that would eventually appear on the SNES and Genesis systems in the early 90s. Very ahead of its time!

[kasaburannkadandii]

一子さんかわいいーーーーーーーーーー

[jzonibgud]

GRANDA PAUSA FODA-SE

[trickstaboy]

go go techno robo!

[tgnpkwethu]

松武さんの隣に居たり居なかったりする人って誰？

[mournblade1066]

I love the dude with the cigarette hanging out of his mouth--that's totally badass!

[zjbeast]

@mournblade1066 I'm sorry its Haruomi Hosono.

[Motorola68000]

This is (in my humble opinion) the best version of YMO - Technopolis. This version has a very catchy bass line (i think it's an arp odyssey) and it's played flawless. Cool manorism and outfits, too. Brilliant!

[jarrelana]

AMEN!!...cool, great...awesome version...the FANTASTIC bassline...bestially maddening!!...wow!

[bobos01]

the best version. i agree. this amount of people working together with this visible/audio appearance...is the top notch.

[voderick]

-MASTERPIECE-

[Sigmundleid]

top freaky, cool

[drgentlewolf]

I heard they needed lots of trailer trucks in

a concert tour to carry these computers to make electronic music.Now even one PC can do it,that's amazing.

[elefou]

You're right,same with Kraftwerk.All they need now is four laptops on stage. I personally prefered when they had lots of gear,looked better.

[drgentlewolf]

yep！

[Expandibubble]

Expandis loves YMO....

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[VoiceEncoder]

Roland VP-330 Vocoder Plus MkI

sequencer. de/pix/roland/vp330_vocoder.jp­g

stoffelshome. de/vocoder/sounds/roland_vp330­.mp3

[ciphyl]

Anyone know any online music distributors that have YMO music available for download?  iTunes doesn't have any of their music.

[unwashedmime]

I think Rhapsody might have some?

[sammmurai]

Quality sound! Very very nice track!

Thanks for the video!

[michinco]

man!

this version is really cool!

[EJLirik]

The guy with the cigarette is the coolest. My new hero!

[Synth352]

Oh I second that. Imma wear a red suit with a black hat and an unlit cigarette.

[saintrobski]

@EJLirik He is called Haruomi Hosono - I think that seals the deal

[zjbeast]

@EJLirik I'm sorry its Haruomi Hosono.

[sparky4444444444444]

@EJLirik

@mournblade1066

That bad ass is named:

Haruomi Hosono

[suira0810]

これ一番好き

[sonersan]

wow, wow, wow... i'm hear electronic music since 1988. And i'm still wondering today about this sound of 80's from YMO.

Timeless pure!!!

Highest respect to the YMO engineers and music workers... all the best from turkey

[WolfgangAmadeusF]

yeah

[p3c3]

Synthpop must rule the world again!!!!!!!!

[rippawallet]

amazing

[retrosound72]

Excellent!!! Very cool.

[glennwinstanley]

They love the prophet 5 don't they!!

[Expandibubble]

thanks for putting this up !

never thought I would get to see this ....

[greggo89]

Im pretty sure it took longer for them to setup than to play! haha

[chrisf242]

Fantastic!!! Thanks for uploading this.

[rt16]

Ryuichi Sakamoto is one of the greatest synthesizer users ever!!!

[maxlover55]

AHHH! YMO.. one of my favorites.. What a cool version.. Do you know from what Show or DVD this is from! ???

[juymo]

Hi, maxlover55

This clip has got included in the video cassette "TV YMO", issued at 1993. I think retail DVD version is not available.

and also, I dont know you could get it in your country.

Hope this helps.

[juymo]

The TV live show's name is "Yoru-no-hit-studio"

Originally Aired :1980/6/02

[naosep]

Oh,It's great! I'm very happy to see this Video.

[synteticdreams]

Excellent video! :)