• RIP, Ryuichi Sakamoto

    From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to All on Sun Apr 2 10:42:31 2023

    Ryuichi Sakamoto, founder of Yellow Magic Orchestra, solo artist collaborator with David Bowie, Thomas Dolby, David Sylvian and others, and prolific soundtrack composer and producer, died on March 28th at age 71 after a long bout with cancer.

    It doesn't get much better than https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGs_vGt0MY8

    I'm switching realitycheckBBS radio to my Ryuichi Sakamoto collection - http://radio.realitycheckbbs.org
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  • From esc@21:4/173 to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun Apr 2 22:47:40 2023
    Ryuichi Sakamoto, founder of Yellow Magic Orchestra, solo artist collaborator with David Bowie, Thomas Dolby, David Sylvian and others,
    and prolific soundtrack composer and producer, died on March 28th at age 71 after a long bout with cancer.

    That would explain why his videos were in my yt feed. RIP.

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  • From Mickey@21:1/159 to esc on Mon Apr 3 19:29:31 2023
    On 02 Apr 2023, esc said the following...

    Ryuichi Sakamoto, founder of Yellow Magic Orchestra, solo artist collaborator with David Bowie, Thomas Dolby, David Sylvian and others and prolific soundtrack composer and producer, died on March 28th at 71 after a long bout with cancer.


    R.I.P.

    Mick

    ... My reality check just bounced

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