Yellow Magic Orchestra USA

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Yellow Magic Orchestra USA
Yellow Magic Orchestra USA cover
Studio album by Yellow Magic Orchestra
Released 1979
Genre Electropop
Label Horizon/A&M Records(Original Releases/Rereleases)

Sony Music Entertainment (rereleases 2003-onwrards)

Producer(s) Haruomi Hosono
Professional reviews
Yellow Magic Orchestra chronology

Yellow Magic Orchestra
(1978)

Yellow Magic Orchestra
(1979)

Solid State Survivor
(1979)


Yellow Magic Orchestra USA was the American release of the first album by Yellow Magic Orchestra, a Japanese electropop band. The album was originally released in Japan in 1978, and then remixed and released in the United States the following year with new cover art.

  1. "Computer Game" "Theme From The Circus" – 1:46
  2. "Firecracker" – 4:50
  3. "Simoon" – 6:27
  4. "Cosmic Surfin'" – 4:26
  5. "Computer Game" "Theme From The Invader" – 1:01
  6. "Yellow Magic (Tong Poo)" – 6:17
  7. "La Femme Chinoise" – 5:55
  8. "Bridge Over Troubled Music" – 1:18
  9. "Mad Pierrot" – 4:04

  • Hideki Matsutake: Micro Composer Programming
  • Shunichi Hashimoto: Vocal on "Simoon"
  • Masayoshi Takanaka: Electric Guitar on "La Femme Chinoise" & "Cosmic' Surfin'"
  • Tomoko Nunoi: additional vocals - "La Femme Chinoise (credited as "Sexy Voice on 'La Femme Chinoise'")
  • Minako Yoshida: additional vocals - "Tong Poo"
  • Produced by: Harry Hosono
  • Exectutive Producer: Kunihiko Murai
  • Supervised by: Tommy Li Puma
  • Arranged and Performed by: Yellow Magic Orchestra
  • Recorded at: Studio A, Shibaura Tokyo, July 10 to September 5, 1978
  • Engineered by: Norio Yoshizawa & Atsushi Saito
  • Mixed at: Capital Records Studios, Hollywood: February 12 to February 16, 1979 by Al Schmitt
  • Mastered at: The Mastering Lab, Hollywood by Mike Reese
  • Recording Coordinator: Sunsuke Miyazumi
  • Art Direction: Roland Ypung
  • Design: Amy Nagasawa and Chuck Beeson
  • Front Cover Art: Lou Beach
  • Back Cover Art: Masayoshi Sukita

[Re-issue]

  • Supervised by: Yuji Tanaka
  • Remastering and Edited by: Mitsuo Kioke at ATS Studio, Tokyo, March 2000
  • Art Direction & Design: Takayuki Innami
  • Design: Kazuhiro Nozawa

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