Yellow Magic Orchestra



The Yellow Magic Orchestra or simply YMO were a famous and influential Japanese electronic group that was popular in the late 70's and early "80's". Like Kraftwerk and Gary Numan, they would pave the way for modern Synthpop and Hip-Hop. YMO originally broke up in 1984 and later had a brief comeback in 1993 as "Not YMO", In the mid 2000's they had yet another comeback, This time as "HASYMO". Up until 2014, They still occasionally came back together as either YMO or HASYMO to protest nuclear war and xenophobia. In the Summer of 2014 Ryuichi Sakamoto announced he had throat cancer, thus putting YMO on hiatus until further notice.