Ryuichi Sakamoto - Thousand Knives of (Vinyl) Claire Rousay Mike Paradinas looks fondly back

Mike Paradinas looks fondly back upon IDM’s melodic golden age and finds sneaky ways to make familiar ideas sound fresh

and it masterfully balances three Purdie-penned originals with three covers of hits-du-jour

The band’s second 1969 album

Nirvana intended the record to diverge significantly from the polished production of its previous album

wonderful songs

Ryuichi Sakamoto - Thousand Knives of (Vinyl) Claire Rousay Mike Paradinas looks fondly backRyuichi Sakamoto's first solo album appeared before he formed Yellow Magic Orchestra in late 1978, after the young keyboardist had earned his M. A. in music from Tokyo University. Six long instrumentals make up this album, but apart from a taste for Asian sounding synth lines, they hint at very little of what was to come in YMO. "Thousand Knives" is a long disco lite jazzy workout with a guitar solo by Kazumi Watanabe (who would later join YMO on tour