The past few years have been a boom time for Japanese reissues, as labels dredge up everything from ambient obscurities to glossy disco-pop for the benefit of listeners who missed them first time around. For Yukihiro Takahashi, it¡¯s all a bit confusing.
¡°Do you understand that?¡± the 66-year-old musician and style guru asks, pondering the current appetite for vintage Japanese sounds. ¡°I don¡¯t get it. It was all just copies of music from overseas, wasn¡¯t it?¡±
It¡¯s a surprising comment coming from someone who helped establish Japan¡¯s international reputation for musical creativity, first as part of Sadistic Mika Band and then with techno-pop pioneers Yellow Magic Orchestra.
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