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This video is featured on 'Harry Hosono Crown Years 1974-1977' Boxed set (CRCP-20386~88)

Containing..
Remastered 'Tropical Dandy' CD
Remastered 'Bon Voyage Co' CD
Harry Hosono & Tin Pan Alley in Chinatown
(Live CD)
Harry Hosono & Tin Pan Alley 1975-1976
DVD (37mins approx)

I love this video. So unusual and great to see the amazing hosono-san in the pre-ymo days :)

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Music

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• ymo
• harry
• hosono

[michinco]

way way wa---y ahead of florian and wolfgang of kraftwerk!

Harry Hosono rules!

I like this one!

the REAL pioneer of techno music!!

[ymo1965]

yes, i love this track too. Hosono's no

stranger to bgm (background music) for commercials etc. This one probably lost

in hosono's music vault. If we had a name,

i could see if it was released.

[Jagged85]

I found out some more information about this song from Discogs:

The song is called "Merry Go Round" and the music video was filmed on November 1976 at Toshimaen, Tokyo.

[originallove911]

I heard it was located in outside of Japan. I can't clearly remember, but somewhere in California, I thought.

[michinco]

@Jagged85 wow! you sound like YMO encyclopedia!!! How would I know all about Hosono if you didnt tell me all this!! I thought his album Happy End was pretty different from YMO, but, I kind of liked the base of Hosono's sound which later influenced YMO!! Thanks for your great info Jagged 85!!

[Jagged85]

@michinco

No probs. Another interesting thing I found, after listening to Osamu Kitajima's "Benzaiten" (1974) which Hosono was a session musician for, is that some of the songs in the album have electronic beats that resemble the artificial Roland TR-808 beats that later became hugely popular in the 80s and 90s, so "Benzaiten" probably used an early Roland rhythm machine. It's no surprise then that YMO was later the first band to use the Roland TR-808 rhythm machine in 1980.

[michinco]

@Jagged85 holy!!! thanks for all the info on Hosono! I truly believe that YMO is the best band ever, and Hosono's creation of his techno sound really took away and influenced the bands in all over the world!

we now should call them "YMO children!" again, thank you for the info!

[Jagged85]

@michinco

Another interesting fact is that Hosono was a session musician for several early synth-rock albums: Inoue Yousui's "Ice World" (1973) and Osamu Kitajima's "Benzaiten" (1974), which was also one of the earliest rock albums to use drum machines. Yet another interesting fact is that fellow YMO member Ryuichi Sakamoto was experimenting with synth music at his university since 1970. In other words, all the YMO members (except Takahashi) were creating electronic music since the early 70s.

[michinco]

@Jagged85 yes, and he was more fan of Isao Tomita. Hideki Matsutake was an assistant of Isao back in 70's and he later became the 4th member of YMO in 1977! It was just the right place at the right time.

[Jagged85]

@michinco

Definately. I'd say this song by Hosono sounds far more ahead of its time than anything Kraftwerk were doing back then... And it proves that Hosono was not trying to follow in Kraftwerk's footsteps when he created YMO several years later.