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Chairlift Really Hate Thompson Twins, Explain Why They Sound Like the '80s - Spinner

Chairlift Really Hate Thompson Twins, Explain Why They Sound Like the '80s
Spinner
I can't help but love a lot of the textures of the sounds in bands like Yellow Magic Orchestra, everything by Ryuichi Sakamoto and Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark, stuff like that. So some of the pallets that we used on this record for synths were ...

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CFCF's Synth-and-Piano Miniatures: Chillwave After the Thaw - SPIN (blog)

CFCF's Synth-and-Piano Miniatures: Chillwave After the Thaw
SPIN (blog)
With stately piano melodies informed by Ryuichi Sakamoto and judiciously applied synthesizers that convey a subtle touch of the cosmic, it's one of the most limpid recordings I've heard lately. So it's ironic that Skype decided to act up during my ...

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Amon Tobin - Amon Tobin Boxset - ClashMusic.com


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Amon Tobin - Amon Tobin Boxset
ClashMusic.com
... thoroughbred (the going phrase back when was funkjazztical tricknology) - instrumentalist gloom sobs tears of granite next to jungle/drum 'n' bass whack attacks (the harrowing 'Grief ' remix for Ryuichi Sakamoto) and drill 'n' bass obliqueness.

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Arts Notes, Walnut Creek Journal and Lamorinda Sun - San Jose Mercury News

Arts Notes, Walnut Creek Journal and Lamorinda Sun
San Jose Mercury News
Smuin audiences will also be treated to the world premiere of "Through" by Ma Cong, an uplifting work set to music by Academy Award-winning composer Ryuichi Sakamoto. The bill will also include Michael Smuin's elegant "Symphony of Psalms," a ...

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Arts Notes, Walnut Creek Journal and Lamorinda Sun - San Jose Mercury News

Arts Notes, Walnut Creek Journal and Lamorinda Sun
San Jose Mercury News
Smuin audiences will also be treated to the world premiere of "Through" by Ma Cong, an uplifting work set to music by Academy Award-winning composer Ryuichi Sakamoto. The bill will also include Michael Smuin's elegant "Symphony of Psalms," a ...

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Smuin Ballet Knocks It Out of the Park - Huffington Post

Smuin Ballet Knocks It Out of the Park
Huffington Post
The dancers rose above the unflattering costumes and the creaky-door score by Ryuichi Sakamoto, which thankfully morphed into something more musical and danceable a third of the way through. Lots of difficult pointework in forced arch, and off-balance ...

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Review: Val Caniparoli's 'Swipe' steals the show in Smuin Ballet's spring program - San Jose Mercury News

Review: Val Caniparoli's 'Swipe' steals the show in Smuin Ballet's spring program
San Jose Mercury News
But Cong, with a pastiche of music compositions by Ryuichi Sakamoto that became increasingly schmaltzy, and despite obvious talent, lacks Caniparoli's capacity to layer. He tends toward the sentimental and superficial, like Smuin, but unlike Smuin, ...

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Best April albums: Spiritualized, Jack White, Dr. John - AZ Central.com


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Best April albums: Spiritualized, Jack White, Dr. John
AZ Central.com
Other highlights range from mesmerizing "Bamboo Music" and "Forbidden Colours," Sylvian's acclaimed collaboration with Ryuichi Sakamoto, to the far more recent "Gravity," a haunting ballad with vocals that sounds like they were phoned in from a dream ...

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Smuin Ballet review: Satisfying spring opener - San Francisco Chronicle

Smuin Ballet review: Satisfying spring opener
San Francisco Chronicle
In "Through," Ma Cong's sophomore world premiere for Smuin (the first was 2010's "French Twist"), four couples performed languorous movement to a mashup of often-strident film music by Ryuichi Sakamoto. The dancers performed with clarity and commitment ...

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When Artistic Geniuses Team Up, the Nerds Come Running - Wired News


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When Artistic Geniuses Team Up, the Nerds Come Running
Wired News
Yet he's gone on to work with other musicians, from award-winning composer Ryuichi Sakamoto to splashy young it-girl rapper Azealia Banks—and it's only made everyone better. Ninety percent of the pleasure of a supergroup is dreaming about what's to ...

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