{"id":188,"date":"2023-04-02T19:43:23","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T23:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sabriafreeman.com\/nmc\/webdev\/project-three\/news\/?p=188"},"modified":"2023-04-02T19:43:23","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T23:43:23","slug":"ryuichi-sakamotos-borderless-brilliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sabriafreeman.com\/nmc\/webdev\/project-three\/news\/ryuichi-sakamotos-borderless-brilliance\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryuichi Sakamoto\u2019s Borderless Brilliance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"513\" src=\"https:\/\/sabriafreeman.com\/nmc\/webdev\/project-three\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/sakamotoheader-1024x513.webp\" alt=\"Ryuichi Sakamoto in 1987 \" class=\"wp-image-158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sabriafreeman.com\/nmc\/webdev\/project-three\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/sakamotoheader-1024x513.webp 1024w, https:\/\/sabriafreeman.com\/nmc\/webdev\/project-three\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/sakamotoheader-300x150.webp 300w, https:\/\/sabriafreeman.com\/nmc\/webdev\/project-three\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/sakamotoheader-768x385.webp 768w, https:\/\/sabriafreeman.com\/nmc\/webdev\/project-three\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/sakamotoheader-1536x770.webp 1536w, https:\/\/sabriafreeman.com\/nmc\/webdev\/project-three\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/sakamotoheader.webp 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ryuichi Sakamoto in 1987 (Photo by Frans Schellekens\/Redferns)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Paying tribute to the visionary Yellow Magic Orchestra member and Oscar-winning composer, who died last month at 71 from cancer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">By&nbsp;Simon Reynolds<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">April 2, 2023<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-vivid-red-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-vivid-red-background-color has-background\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most people would identify D\u00fcsseldorf, Germany, or Detroit\u2014hometowns of Kraftwerk and Cybotron, respectively\u2014as the birthplace of techno. Some might make a case for Sheffield, England, and its scions the Human League and Cabaret Voltaire. One city that never comes up is Tokyo. Yet Yellow Magic Orchestra\u2014the trio of Haruomi Hosono, Yukihiro Takahashi, and Ryuichi Sakamoto\u2014has arguably the strongest claim of all to the \u201cGodfathers of Techno\u201d title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Formed in 1978, YMO\u2019s sound centered around synthesizers and was largely aimed at the dancefloor. But unlike any of the other contenders above, a substantial proportion of their early recordings consisted of instrumentals\u2014one of techno\u2019s hallmarks. True, those albums used Takahashi\u2019s hands-on drumming rather than programmed beats. But perhaps what ought to sway the decision in the Japanese group\u2019s favor is that they were the first to use the word \u201ctechno\u201d in connection with their music. Their second album, 1979\u2019s Solid State Survivor, kicks off with \u201cTechnopolis,\u201d and the record\u2019s success in their home country spawned a Japanese form of New Wave known as technopop. Their fifth album, released in 1981, was called Technodelic. Then, clinching the contest, YMO released an EP called The Spirit of Techno in 1983\u2014a year before Cybotron\u2019s single \u201cTechno City,\u201d and while Kraftwerk struggled to complete an album with the working title Techno Pop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paying tribute to the visionary Yellow Magic Orchestra member and Oscar-winning composer, who died last month at 71 from cancer By&nbsp;Simon Reynolds April 2, 2023 Most people would identify D\u00fcsseldorf, Germany, or Detroit\u2014hometowns of Kraftwerk and Cybotron, respectively\u2014as the birthplace of techno. Some might make a case for Sheffield, England, and its scions the Human [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabriafreeman.com\/nmc\/webdev\/project-three\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabriafreeman.com\/nmc\/webdev\/project-three\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabriafreeman.com\/nmc\/webdev\/project-three\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabriafreeman.com\/nmc\/webdev\/project-three\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabriafreeman.com\/nmc\/webdev\/project-three\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sabriafreeman.com\/nmc\/webdev\/project-three\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189,"href":"https:\/\/sabriafreeman.com\/nmc\/webdev\/project-three\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions\/189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabriafreeman.com\/nmc\/webdev\/project-three\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabriafreeman.com\/nmc\/webdev\/project-three\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabriafreeman.com\/nmc\/webdev\/project-three\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}