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Ryuichi Sakamoto
Ryuichi Sakamoto was a Japanese composer, pianist, record producer, and actor who pursued a diverse range of styles as a solo artist and as a member of Yellow Magic Orchestra. With his bandmates Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi, Sakamoto influenced and pioneered a number of electronic music genres. Sakamoto began his career as a session musician, producer, and arranger, while he was at university in the 1970s. His first major success came in 1978 as co-founder of YMO. He pursued a solo career at the same time, releasing the experimental electronic fusion album Thousand Knives in 1978, and the album B-2 Unit in 1980. B-2 Unit included the track "Riot in Lagos", which was a significant contribution to the development of electro and hip hop music. He went on to produce more solo records, and collaborate with many international artists, David Sylvian, DJ Spooky, Carsten Nicolai, Youssou N'Dour, and Fennesz among them. Sakamoto composed music for the opening ceremony of the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, and his composition "Energy Flow" was the first instrumental number-one single in Japan's Oricon charts history. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryuichi_Sakamoto) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode)

Songs

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Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
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Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
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Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
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Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
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Aqua
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Albums

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Opus

Album • 2024
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12

Album • 2023
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Playing the Piano 12122020

Album • 2021
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async - immersion 2023

Album • 2024
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A Tribute to Ryuichi Sakamoto - To the Moon and Back

Album • 2022
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Beckett (Music from the Netflix Film)

Album • 2021
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Monster (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Album • 2023
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Exception (Soundtrack from the Netflix Anime Series)

Album • 2022
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Travesía

Album • 2023
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Suite for Krug in 2008

Album • 2022

Singles

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Tong Poo

2024
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Kizuna

2022
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Barco

2022
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Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence - Electric Youth Remodel / Thousand Knives - Thundercat Remodel

2022
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Thousand Knives - Thundercat Remodel

2022
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Ieta

2022
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Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence - Electric Youth Remodel

2022
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Opening for "Exception" / oxygen [from "Exception" Soundtrack]

2022
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After Yang Main Theme (Solo)

2022
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City Radieuse

2022

Videos

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andata - Electric Youth Remix - Official Music Video

Ryuichi Sakamoto • 58K views
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U-zhaan & Ryuichi Sakamoto 「energy flow - rework」

Ryuichi Sakamoto • 121K views
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Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence - 2021 " 595 Notes, 96 Bars " Music Video

Ryuichi Sakamoto • 88K views
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U-zhaan & Ryuichi Sakamoto feat. 環ROY × 鎮座DOPENESS / エナジー風呂 (Energy Flo)

Ryuichi Sakamoto • 1.5M views
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うないぐみ＋坂本龍一「弥勒世果報 (みるくゆがふ) - undercooled」

Ryuichi Sakamoto • 238K views

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Presenting Ryuichi Sakamoto

Playlist • YouTube Music
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Relaxing J-Pop

Playlist • YouTube Music
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Ambient Music Japan

Playlist • YouTube Music
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Shoes Off

Playlist • YouTube Music
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Cinematic Ambience

Playlist • YouTube Music
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Electronic Film Scores

Playlist • YouTube Music
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J-Pop Christmas

Playlist • YouTube Music

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