After YMO's 1983 breakup, Sakamoto pursued solo and collaborative work full-time, achieving his artistic and commercial breakthrough that same year with his acclaimed score for Merry Christmas, Mr. Two years later, he returned with B-2 Unit, and the vast differences between the two discs gave a clear indication of the mercurial eclecticism that would define the remainder of his work. And inspired old-school rap legends including Afrika Bambaataa.While in YMO, Sakamoto also issued his first proper solo effort, 1978's Thousand Knives Of. Their 1980 single 'Computer Game' reached the Top 20 in the U.K. Informed by the robotic iconography of Kraftwerk, YMO became massive stars in their native Japan, where they regularly topped the Oricon charts. He went on to study electronic music at Tokyo's University of Art, and after graduating formed Yellow Magic Orchestra with Yukihiro Takahashi and Haruomi Hosono. Exposed to everyone from the Beatles to Beethoven and John Cage, he was also heavily influenced by avant-garde filmmaking. His discography is immense and varied, including solo piano works, proto-techno, experimental ambient, and glitch.Born January 17, 1952, in Tokyo, Sakamoto took up piano at the age of three, and regularly performed in jazz bands while in high school. The driving force behind 'Neo Geo,' a cutting-edge fusion of Asian and Western classical music with other global textures and rhythms, he has been equally adept in electronic and acoustic settings, whether recording in solitude or in tandem, with decades of steady activity. The release of Discord was sold in a that was covered by a blue-colored made of, while the CD also contained a data video track.As one-third of Yellow Magic Orchestra and an Academy Award-winning composer for his work on the soundtrack for The Last Emperor, synth pop innovator Ryuichi Sakamoto is among the most groundbreaking artists to have emerged since the late '70s. During December 1996 Sakamoto, composed the entirety of an hour-long orchestral work entitled 'Untitled 01' and released as the album Discord (1998). 1990s In 1995 Sakamoto released Smoochy, described by the Sound On Sound website as Sakamoto's 'excursion into the land of easy-listening and Latin', followed by the album, which featured a number of previously released pieces arranged for solo piano, violin and cello. (1991) and Sweet Revenge (1994) features Sakamoto's collaborations with a global range of artists such as, Dee Dee Brave, Marco Prince, and.

(1989) features a track list that combines pop with traditional Japanese and, as well as guest appearances by, and.

As his solo career began to extend outside Japan in the late 1980s, Sakamoto's explorations, influences and collaborators also developed further. For the song 'Broadway Boogie Woogie', Sakamoto liberally used samples from 's film and blended them with raucous, sax-driven techno-pop.

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