We remember Yellow Magic Orchestra drummer Yukihiro Takahashi died over the weekend. He was 70 years old. Yukihiro co-founded the Japanese super group known for electronic hits. CHANG: Takahashi first ...

Have you heard Yellow Magic Orchestra? Might be the best pop group ever. Now, if you're the kind of reader who's suspicious of such shameless hyperbole (and huzzah for you if you are), then consider ...

Pioneering Japanese electronic music trio Yellow Magic Orchestra is celebrating its 40th year in music with a remastered reissues project called "YMO40," and shared details of the second release of… ...

Since their formation as a proper band in 1978, Haruomi Hosono, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and Yukihiro Takahashi have transversed style and genre to create some of the boldest, strangest pop music in history.

Yellow Magic Orchestra leader Haruomi Hosono is to play his first UK show in seven years at London’s Southbank Centre. The highly influential musician and producer is one of the artists that will play ...

With Yellow Magic Orchestra, he paved the way for electropop and hip-hop but was far happier as a backroom boffin than an electronic pinup Ryuichi Sakamoto was not a man cut out to be a pop star. As a ...

Although name-dropped less often than they deserve, Yellow Magic Orchestra boldly surfed the cutting edge of electronic pop at the beginning of the 1980s, and in their way were almost as influential ...