Ryuichi Sakamoto

Monday, 27 August 2012

Ryuichi Sakamoto- 'Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence'

Ryuichi Sakamoto Trio 1996 - Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence

ODAKIAS - Ryuichi Sakamoto, Shing02 & TOKiMONSTA version

ODAKIAS - Oi Protesters, Ryuichi Sakamoto & U-zhaan with Shiro Takatani (visual)

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1992 Summer Olympics
The 1992 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event celebrated in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain in 1992. The International Olympic Committee voted in 1986 to separate the Summer and Winter Games, which had been held in the same year since 1924, and place them in alternating even-numbered years, beginning in 1994. The 1992 Summer Games were the last to be staged in the same year as the Winter Games.
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Finland
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Rio de Janeiro
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Velfarre
was a disco located in the Roppongi district of Tokyo, Japan. Velfarre was the self-professed "largest disco in Asia" with a capacity of 1,500 people; owned by Komuro Tetsuya and Avex Trax. Velfarre was, and still is, known for Trance, Eurobeat, Techno, Para Para, and Disco related events. Velfarre held concerts for Avex Trax artists, and was able to be rented for private events.
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A. R. Rahman
Allah Rakha Rahman (; born 6 January 1966 as A. S. Dileep Kumar) is an Indian film composer, record producer, musician and singer. His film scoring career began in the early 1990s. He has won fourteen Filmfare Awards, four National Film Awards, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe, two Grammy Awards, and two Academy Awards.
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Afrika Bambaata
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Akiko Yano
is a Japanese pop and jazz musician. She was born as Akiko Suzuki (Suzuki Akiko) in Tokyo and raised in Aomori, Aomori. She married and soon after divorced Makoto Yano, a producer of her first recording. She later married Ryuichi Sakamoto, one of the members of Yellow Magic Orchestra, whom she divorced in August 2006.
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Alan Jay Lerner
Alan Jay Lerner (August 31, 1918 – June 14, 1986) was an American lyricist and librettist. In collaboration with Frederick Loewe, he created some of the world's most popular and enduring works of musical theatre for both the stage and on film. He won three Tony Awards and three Academy Awards, among other honors.
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Alan Menken
Alan Menken (born July 22, 1949) is an American musical theatre and film composer and pianist.
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Alexandre Desplat
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Alva Noto
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Amon Tobin
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Anna Tsuchiya
is a Japanese singer, lyricist, actress, film director and semi-retired model. Tsuchiya was born to a Japanese mother and an American father of Polish-Irish descent. She was bilingual at an early age but lost her fluency in english after her parents divorced when she was 7.She has a younger brother, Kenneth, and an older sister, Angela, who is also a former model.
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Anne Dudley
Anne Dudley (born Anne Jennifer Beckingham, 7 May 1956, Chatham, Kent) is an English composer and pop musician, and was the first BBC Concert Orchestra's Composer in Association in 2001. She has worked in both the classical and pop genres. She is perhaps best known, however, as one of the core members of the synthpop band Art of Noise and also as a film composer. In 1998, she won an Academy Award for Best Original Musical or Comedy Score for The Full Monty.
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Antonio Carlos Jobim
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Arto Lindsay
Arthur Morgan Lindsay (born May 28, 1953, Richmond, Virginia) is an American guitarist, singer, record producer and experimental composer.
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Aztec Camera
Aztec Camera were a Scottish New Wave band from Glasgow, formed in 1980 and centered around the then teenage singer-songwriter, Roddy Frame. Their album Love was among the nominations for Best British Album at the 1989 BRIT Awards.
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Bernardo Bertolucci
Bernardo Bertolucci (born March 16, 1940) is an Italian film director and screenwriter, whose films include The Conformist, Last Tango in Paris, The Last Emperor and The Dreamers.
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Bill Conti
William "Bill" Conti (born April 13, 1942) is an American film music composer who is frequently the conductor at the Academy Awards ceremony.
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Brian De Palma
Brian Russell De Palma (born September 11, 1940) is an American film director and writer. In a career spanning over forty years, he is probably best known for his suspense and thriller films, including such box office successes as Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Scarface, The Untouchables, and .
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Brian Wilson
Brian Douglas Wilson (born June 20, 1942 in Inglewood, California) is an American musician, best known as the leader and chief songwriter of the group The Beach Boys. Within the band, Wilson played bass and keyboards, also providing part-time lead vocals and, more often, backing vocals, harmonizing in falsetto with the group.
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Burkhard Dallwitz
Burkhard Dallwitz (born 1959) is a German-born composer based in Melbourne, Australia. He was born near Frankfurt and began ten years of classical piano training at the age of eight. By thirteen he was writing songs and music, and from fifteen, Burkhard wrote, arranged and performed for various musical groups.
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Carl Davis
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Cesária Évora
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Chris Mosdell
Chris Mosdell is a British lyricist, poet, and author, composer, vocalist, and illustrator, based in Tokyo, Japan, and Boulder, Colorado, USA.
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Christopher Willits
Christopher Willits is a musician and multimedia artist located in San Francisco. His musical focus is characterized by guitar with computer software processing and improvisation, which generates a large palette of possible sounds including; melodic rhythms, grainy textures, and smooth drones. Willits' music is electroacoustic in nature, in that both analogue and digital worlds are fused into one. Willits coined the term "folding guitar" in press releases and interviews surrounding his 2002 release Folding, and the Tea. Willits' guitar lines and harmonies are folded into each other using custom-designed software. As described on his website; "notes and phrases hook and weave, creating complex patterns of interlocking rhythms, melodies and textures".
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Claude Debussy
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Cong Su
:This is a Chinese name; the family name is Su.
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Dai Nagao
is a Japanese composer, musician and producer. He was a member and composer of the popular musical group Do As Infinity from its founding until it disbanded in September 2005, although they have since reformed.
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Dario Marianelli
Dario Marianelli (born June 21, 1963 in Pisa, Italy) is a composer of piano, orchestral, and film music. He has composed the soundtracks for The Brothers Grimm (2005) and Pride & Prejudice (2005). He received Oscar nominations for Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score for Pride & Prejudice and Atonement. He has won Best Original Score for the score of Atonement at the 80th Academy Awards and Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score. He has collaborated with Joe Wright for three times, including Pride & Prejudice, Atonement, and
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David Bowie
David Bowie ( ; born David Robert Jones, 8 January 1947) is an English rock musician, who has also worked as an actor, record producer and arranger. A major figure for five decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s, and is known for his distinctive voice and the intellectual depth of his work.
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David Byrne
David Byrne (born May 14, 1952) is a Scottish-born musician and artist most associated with his role as a founding member and principal songwriter of the American new wave band Talking Heads, which was active between 1975 and 1991. Since then, Byrne has released his own solo recordings and worked with various media including film, photography, opera, and non-fiction. He has received Grammy, Oscar, and Golden Globe awards and been inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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David Hirschfelder
David Hirschfelder (born 18 November 1960) is an Australian film score composer and performer.
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David Sylvian
David Sylvian (born David Alan Batt, 23 February 1958, Beckenham, Kent) is an English singer-songwriter and musician. He came to prominence in the late 1970s as the lead vocalist and main songwriter in the group Japan. His subsequent solo work is described by critic Jason Ankeny as "a far-ranging and esoteric career that encompassed not only solo projects but also a series of fascinating collaborative efforts." Sylvian's solo work has been influenced by a variety of musical styles and genres, including jazz, avant-garde, ambient, electronic, and progressive rock.
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Dominic Frontiere
Dominic Frontiere (born June 17, 1931) is an American composer, arranger, and jazz accordionist. He is known for composing the theme and much of the music for the first season of the television series The Outer Limits.
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Don Was
Don Was (born Don Fagenson; September 13, 1952) is an American musician, bassist and record producer.
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Duke Bootee
Duke Bootee was an early hip hop and rap producer, who produced some of the most early and important rap records. His most well known single was "The Message" produced for Sugar Hill Records, this record featured legendary rapper Melle Mel and Duke Bootee. The label on the record marketed Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, although the actual performers were Melle Mel and Duke Bootee.
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Edvard Munch
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Elliot Goldenthal
Elliot Goldenthal (born May 2, 1954) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. He was a student of Aaron Copland and John Corigliano, and is best known for his distinctive style and ability to blend various musical styles and techniques in original and inventive ways. He is also a film-music composer, and won the Academy Award for Best Original Score in 2002 for his score to the motion picture Frida, directed by his long-time partner Julie Taymor.
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Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone, Grande Ufficiale OMRI (born November 10, 1928) is an Italian composer and conductor.
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Eric Clapton
Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE (born 30 March 1945) is an English blues-rock guitarist and singer-songwriter. Clapton is the only person who has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame three times; as a solo performer, as well as a member of rock bands the Yardbirds and Cream. Throughout his career, Clapton has been viewed by critics and fans alike as one of the most important and influential guitarists of all time, Clapton was ranked fourth in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and #53 on their list of the "Immortals: 100 Greatest Artists of All Time". In 2010, Clapton was ranked #4 on ''Gibson's'' Top 50 Guitarists of All Time.
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FM-2030
FM-2030 (October 15, 1930 – July 8, 2000) was an author, teacher, transhumanist philosopher, futurist and consultant. FM-2030 was born Fereidoun M. Esfandiary ().
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Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola (born April 7, 1939) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Away from show business, Coppola is also a vintner, magazine publisher and hotelier. He is a graduate of Hofstra University where he studied theatre. He earned an M.F.A. in film directing from the UCLA Film School. He is primarily known for directing the Godfather Trilogy, Apocalypse Now, Dracula, and The Conversation and for writing Patton.
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Francis Lai
Francis Lali (born April 26, 1932, Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France) is a French accordionist, and composer noted for his film scores.
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Frederick Loewe
Frederick Loewe (June 10, 1901 February 14, 1988), was an Austrian-American composer. He collaborated with lyricist Alan Jay Lerner on the long running Broadway musicals My Fair Lady and Camelot, with book and lyrics by Lerner, both of which were made into films.
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Gabriel Yared
Gabriel Yared (born 7 October 1949) is a Lebanese composer, best known for his work in French and American cinema.
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Giorgio Moroder
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Hector Zazou
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Henry Mancini
Henry Mancini (April 16, 1924 – June 14, 1994) was an American composer, conductor and arranger, best remembered for his film and television scores. He won a record number of Grammy Awards (20), including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award posthumously in 1995. His best-known works include the jazz-idiom theme to The Pink Panther film series ("The Pink Panther Theme"), the Peter Gunn Theme from the television series, and back-to-back Academy Awards for the songs "Moon River" from the Blake Edwards film ''Breakfast at Tiffany's and "Days of Wine and Roses" from the 1962 film Days of Wine and Roses''.
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Herbie Hancock
Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock (born April 12, 1940, in Chicago, Illinois) is an American pianist, bandleader and composer. As part of Miles Davis's "second great quintet", Hancock helped redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section, and was one of the primary architects of the "post-bop" sound. He was one of the first jazz musicians to embrace synthesizers and funk. Hancock's music is often melodic and accessible; he has had many songs "cross over" and achieved success among pop audiences. His music embraces elements of funk and soul while adopting freer stylistic elements from jazz. In his jazz improvisation, he possesses a unique creative blend of jazz, blues, and modern classical music, with harmonic stylings much like the styles of Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel.
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Hideki Matsutake
Hideki Matsutake (born August 12, 1951 in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese composer, arranger, and computer programmer. Through his participation in the session recording of Ryuichi Sakamoto's 1978 album Thousand Knives, he further joined the recordings of Yellow Magic Orchestra during 1978-1982 as their sound programmer, to become known as "the fourth member" of the group. In 1981, he formed a unit of his own under the name Logic System, which released its latest album in 2008. He also continued to take part in solo activities by YMO members such as Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi beyond the group's breakup in 1983. Today, Matsutake is also Chairman of Japan Synthesizer Programmers Association (JSPA).
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Hitomi
(stylized as hitomi) is a Japanese singer and songwriter. Some of her biggest hits include "Candy Girl" (1995), "Love 2000" (2000), and "Samurai Drive" (2002). Her latest studio album, Love Life 2, was released in June 24, 2009. On December 5, 2007 Hitomi released an entire-career compilation album, Peace. Hitomi has sold over 8,830,000 copies of all her albums, singles, and video releases.
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Holly Johnson
Holly Johnson (born William Johnson; 9 February 1960; legal name William Holly Johnson) is an English artist, writer and musician, best known as the lead vocalist of Frankie Goes to Hollywood.
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Howard Shore
Howard Leslie Shore (born October 18, 1946) is a Canadian composer, notable for his film scores. He has composed the scores for over 40 films, most notably the scores for The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, for which he won three Academy Awards. He is also a consistent collaborator with director David Cronenberg, having scored all but one of his films since 1979.
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Iggy Pop
Iggy Pop (born James Newell Osterberg, Jr.; April 21, 1947) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and occasional actor. He is considered an influential innovator of punk rock, hard rock, and other styles of rock music. Pop began calling himself Iggy after his first band in high school (for which he was drummer), The Iguanas. Iggy Pop is widely acknowledged as one of the most dynamic stage performers of all time.
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Ingrid Chavez
Ingrid Julia Chavez, born January 21, 1965 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is a Mexican-American poet, vocalist, songwriter and photographer.
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James Horner
James Roy Horner (born August 14, 1953) is an American composer, orchestrator and conductor of orchestral and film music. He is noted for the integration of choral and electronic elements in many of his film scores, and for frequent use of Celtic musical elements.
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Jaques Morelenbaum
Jaques Morelenbaum (Rio de Janeiro, May 18, 1954) is a Brazilian instrumentalist, arranger, conductor, composer and music producer.
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Jean Baudrillard
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Jean-Claude Petit
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Jill Jones
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John Corigliano
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John Maybury
John Maybury (b. 25 March 1958) is a British filmmaker. In 2005 he was listed as one of the 100 most influential gay and lesbian people in Britain.
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John Williams
John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932) is a prolific American composer, conductor, and pianist. In a career spanning six decades, he has composed many of the most recognizable film scores in the history of motion pictures, including those for Jaws, the Star Wars Saga, Superman, the Indiana Jones films, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Hook, Jurassic Park, ''Schindler's List, Home Alone, and three Harry Potter'' films. He has composed the music for all but two of director Steven Spielberg's feature films.
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Josep Carreras
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Kenneth Ascher
Kenneth Lee Ascher (b. Oct. 26, 1944, Washington, D.C.), (aka Ken or Kenny), is an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger who is active in jazz, rock, classical, and musical theater genres — in live venues, recording studios, and cinema production. He is widely known for co-writing, with Paul Williams, The Rainbow Connection — music from The Muppet Movie. Both Williams and Ascher received Oscar nominations for the 1979 Academy Awards for Best Original Song ("Rainbow Connection") and Best Original Score (The Muppet Movie Soundtrack). The song was also nominated for the Golden Globes for "Best Original Song" that same year.
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Kiran Rao
Kiran Rao Khan is an Indian film producer and director. She is the wife of Aamir Khan.
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Kitarō
, better known as , (February 4, 1953) is a Grammy and Golden Globe award-winning Japanese musician, composer and multi-instrumentalist.
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Kiyoshiro Imawano
, born , was a Japanese rock musician, lyricist, composer, musical producer, and actor from Tokyo, Japan. He was dubbed "Japan's King of Rock". He formed and led an influential rock band RC Succession.
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Kurtis Mantronik
Kurtis el Khaleel () (born September 4, 1965, in Jamaica), known by the stage name Kurtis Mantronik, is an American hip-hop, electro funk, and dance music artist, DJ, remixer, and producer. Mantronik was the former leader, DJ, and keyboardist of the influential 1980s hip hop and electro-funk group Mantronix. Currently, Mantronik lives in Britain, where he has produced and remixed house and techno music tracks by artists such as Junior Senior, Kylie Minogue, Fatboy Slim, The Chemical Brothers, Michael Gray, Victoria Beckham, Liberty X, and Mim.
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Leslie Bricusse
Leslie Bricusse (29 January 1931) is a British lyricist and composer.
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Lisa Gerrard
Lisa Gerrard (born April 12, 1961) is an Australian musician, singer, and composer who rose to prominence as part of the music group Dead Can Dance with former music partner Brendan Perry.
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Love (Ai Otsuka)
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Luis Bacalov
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Man Ray
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Mantronix
:For the game, see Mantronix (video game)
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Mari Iijima
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Masahiko Amakasu
was an officer in the Imperial Japanese Army imprisoned for his involvement in the Amakasu Incident, the extrajudicial execution of anarchists after the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, who later became head of the Manchukuo Film Association.
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Massimo Milano
Massimo Milano (Torino, 1967) is ethnomusicologist, critic and sound experimentalist. Member of "A.I.STU.GIA" (Italian Association for Japanese Studies, Venice) and of the International Jury of the Down Beat Annual Critics Poll (USA), he has been editor-in-chief of the monthly magazine "Finis Terrae" (http://www.finisterraemagazine.it), for which he interviewed Zimbabwe's musical icon in exile Thomas Mapfumo. In addition, he regularly contributes to several Italian and Spanish leading newspapers and magazines (Il Manifesto, Jam, Rumore, Jazzit, Il Giornale della Musica, Carnet, Amadeus, Playboy, Cuadernos de Jazz). He co-authored the "Encyclopedia of Rock", recently re-published by Arcana Editrice, and during the 90's he actively collaborated as a consultant both for Blue Note artists the Doky Brothers and pianist Niels Lan Doky, for whom he wrote the liner notes for the album "Haitek Haiku", produced by Gino Vannelli. In 1998 he published a book of essays and conversations with Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto ("Ryuichi Sakamoto. Conversazioni"), featuring a foreword by Banana Yoshimoto. A year later he contributed with a semiological essay ("Transiti/Transits") to the catalog for the exhibition "Musica Senza Suono" ("Soundless Music"), conceived and realized by producer Francesco Messina and critic Enzo Gentile for the Museo Revoltella in Trieste (Italy). In 2003/2004 he settled in Tokyo to conduct researches for the "Japan Foundation" in collaboration with the "Kyoto University", under the supervision of philosopher Akira Asada, on the theme of the 'reversed exoticism' in modern Japan. His upcoming projects include a short essay about the perception of Western pop culture in the Far East; a book about Alejandro Jodorowsky and his influence on the psychedelic movement, the neo-mysticism and the counterculture of the 1960s; and a self-produced DVD about Japan for which he's currently writing the music and the screenplay.
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Maurice Jarre
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Max Matsuura
, better known as Max Matsuura, is a record producer and president of one of the largest music labels in Japan, Avex Group. He is known mainly for discovering and developing new artists and converting them into big stars. Ayumi Hamasaki is the most famous example of Matsuura's work. He also is known for reviving Ami Suzuki's career after she was let go by her previous record label.
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Melle Mel
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Michael Giacchino
Michael Giacchino (; born October 10, 1967) is an American composer who has composed scores for movies, television series and video games. Some of his most notable works include the scores to television series such as Lost, Alias and Fringe, games such as the Medal of Honor and Call of Duty series, and films such as , The Incredibles, Star Trek, Ratatouille, and Up. Giacchino has received numerous awards for his work, including an Emmy, multiple Grammys, and an Academy Award.
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Michael Jackson
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Michel Legrand
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Miu Sakamoto
is a J-Pop singer. She is the daughter of Japanese musicians Ryuichi Sakamoto and Akiko Yano.
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Nagisa Oshima
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Nam June Paik
Nam June Paik (July 20, 1932 – January 29, 2006) was a Korean-born American artist. He worked with a variety of media and is considered to be the first video artist.
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Nicola Piovani
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Nino Rota
Nino Rota (December 3, 1911, Milan – April 10, 1979, Rome) was a world-renowned Italian composer and academic who is best known for his film scores, notably for the films of Federico Fellini and Luchino Visconti. He also composed the music for two of Franco Zeffirelli's Shakespeare films, and for the first two films of Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather trilogy, receiving for the latter the Academy Award for Best original Score in 1974.
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Paula Morelenbaum
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Pedro Almodóvar
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Peter Barakan
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Philip Glass
Philip Morris Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an American music composer. He is considered one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century and is widely acknowledged as a composer who has brought art music to the public (along with precursors such as Richard Strauss, Kurt Weill and Leonard Bernstein).
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Pina Bausch
Philippine "Pina" Bausch (27 July 1940 – 30 June 2009) was a German modern dance choreographer and a leading influence in the development of the Tanztheater style of dance.
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Prince (musician)
Prince (born Prince Rogers Nelson, June 7, 1958) is a singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. He has been known under the unpronounceable symbol , which he used between 1993 and 2000. During that period he was frequently referred to in the media as "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince", often abbreviated to "TAFKAP", or simply "The Artist"
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Rachel Portman
Rachel Mary Berkeley Portman OBE (born 11 December 1960) is a British composer, best known for her film work. She was the first female composer to win an Academy Award in the category of Best Original Score (for Emma in 1996). (Previously, female songwriters Barbra Streisand, in 1977, Buffy Sainte-Marie, in 1983, and Carly Simon, in 1989, each won Oscars, but in the category of Best Original Song).
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Ridley Scott
Sir Ridley Scott (born 30 November 1937) is an English film director and producer known for his stylish visuals and an obsession for detail. His films include The Duellists (1977), Alien (1979), Blade Runner (1982), Legend (1985), Thelma & Louise (1991), Gladiator (2000), Black Hawk Down (2001), Hannibal (2001), Kingdom of Heaven (2005), American Gangster (2007), Body of Lies (2008), and Robin Hood (2010).
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Robbie Robertson
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Robin Scott
Robin Scott (born Robin Esmond Scott, 1 April 1947, Croydon, London), lead singer and founder of a music project he called M, is a singer originally from the United Kingdom. His career encompasses four decades.
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Roddy Frame
Roddy Frame (born 29 January 1964, East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, Scotland) was the founder of the 1980s indie band, Aztec Camera, and more recently is a solo performer.
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Rodrigo Leão
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Ryuichi Sakamoto
is an Academy Award-winning Japanese musician, composer, record producer and actor, based in New York and Tokyo. He plays keyboards in the influential Japanese electropop band Yellow Magic Orchestra. His 1999 musical composition "Energy Flow", also known as the alternative title of the single disc Ura BTTB, is the first number-one instrumental single in Japan's Oricon charts history.
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Ryuichi Sakamoto 坂本龍一
Ryuichi Sakamoto in June 2007
Background information
Born	(1952-01-17) January 17, 1952 (age 60) Tokyo, Japan
Genres	Classical, electronic, experimental, J‑pop, new wave, world
Occupations	musician, composer, record producer, pianist, actor
Instruments	Keyboard, piano
Years active	1977–present
Labels	Columbia Music Entertainment (1978–1979) Alfa Records (1979–1983) MIDI (1984–1986) Sony Music Entertainment Japan (1986–1987) EMI (1989–1991,1993) For Life Records (1994–1997) Warner Music (1998–2006) commmons (2006–present) A&M Records Restless Records
Associated acts	Yellow Magic Orchestra, Akiko Yano, Chris Mosdell, Sandii, Japan, David Sylvian, Kiyoshiro Imawano, Michael Jackson, Mari Iijima, David Bowie, Youssou N'Dour, Madonna, Talvin Singh, Sketch Show

Ryuichi Sakamoto (坂本龍一, Sakamoto Ryūichi^?, born January 17, 1952) is a Japanese musician, composer, record producer, writer, singer, pianist, and actor, based in Tokyo and New York. He began his career in 1978 as a member of the pioneering electronic music group Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO),^[1]^[2] where he played keyboards and was an occasional vocalist. The band was an international success, with worldwide hits such as "Computer Game / Firecracker" (1978) and "Behind the Mask" (1978),^[3] the latter written and sung by Sakamoto. He concurrently began pursuing a solo career, debuting with the experimental electronic fusion album The Thousand Knives of Ryūichi Sakamoto (1978), and later released the pioneering album B-2 Unit (1980), which included the electro classic "Riot in Lagos".^[4]^[5]^[6] After YMO disbanded in 1983, he produced more solo records, including collaborations with various international artists, through to the 1990s.

He began acting and composing for film with Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983), which he starred in and composed the score for; the song "Forbidden Colours" which he composed for it became a worldwide hit and he won a BAFTA Award for the film's score.^[7] He later won an Academy Award and Grammy Award for scoring The Last Emperor (1987),^[8] and has also won two Golden Globe Awards for his work as a film composer.^[7] In addition, he also composed music for the 1992 Barcelona Olympics opening ceremony. In the early 1990s, he briefly reunited with YMO, playing an instrumental role in the techno and acid house movements of the era, before parting ways again shortly afterwards.^[9] His 1999 musical composition "Energy Flow", also known as the alternative title of the single disc Ura BTTB, was the first number-one instrumental single in Japan's Oricon charts history.^[10] He has also occasionally worked on anime and video games, as a composer as well as a scenario writer. In the late 2000s, he reunited once again with YMO, while continuing to compose film music. In 2009, he was awarded the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from France's Ministry of Culture for his musical contributions.^[3]

1 Biography
2 Awards
3 Discography
4 Commmons
5 References
6 External links

Biography [link]

Early years and Yellow Magic Orchestra [link]

Solo career [link]

Sakamoto released his first solo album in mid-1978, Thousand Knives of Ryūichi Sakamoto, with the help of Hideki Matsutake, who would later be the "fourth member" of Yellow Magic Orchestra, and with the band's founding member Haruomi Hosono also contributing to the song "Thousand Knives". The album experimented with different styles, such as "Thousand Knives" and "The End of Asia" fusing electronic music with traditional Japanese music, while "Grasshoppers" was a more minimalistic piano song. The album was recorded from April to July in 1978 using a variety of electronic equipment, including various synthesizers such as the KORG PS-3100 polyphonic synthesizer, Oberheim Eight-Voice, Moog III-C, Polymoog, Minimoog, and Micromoog, as well as the Korg VC-10 vocoder, KORG SQ-10 analog sequencer, and Syn-Drums electronic drum kit. It was also the earliest known record to utilize the microprocessor-based Roland MC-8 Microcomposer music sequencer, which was programmed by Matsutake.^[19]^[20] Sakamoto would later remix his song "Thousand Knives" using the Roland TR-808 drum machine as "1000 Knives" for his band's album BGM (1981). His song "Grasshoppers" would also later be sampled in Ghostface Killah's "Baby" (2009).

	"Riot in Lagos" noicon A sample of "Riot in Lagos" from Ryuichi Sakamoto's 1980 album B-2 Unit. This song is credited for having anticipated the beats and sounds of electro music.
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In 1980, he released the solo album B-2 Unit, which is considered to be his "edgiest" record.^[21] It is known for the electronic classic "Riot in Lagos",^[21] which is considered an early example of electro music (electro-funk),^[4]^[5] for having anticipated the beats and sounds of electro.^[6] Ryuichi Sakamoto, particularly his song "Riot in Lagos", had an influence on early electro and hip hop artists such as Afrika Bambaata,^[6] and was cited by Kurtis Mantronik as a major influence on his electro hip hop group Mantronix.^[5] The song was later included in Playgroup's compilation album Kings of Electro (2007), alongside later electro classics such as Hashim's "Al-Nafyish" (1983).^[22] According to Dusted Magazine, Sakamoto's use of squelching bounce sounds and mechanical beats was later incorporated in early electro and hip hop music productions such as “Message II (Survival)” (1982) by Melle Mel and Duke Bootee, “Magic’s Wand” (1982) by Whodini and Thomas Dolby, Twilight 22’s “Electric Kingdom” (1983), and Kurt Mantronik's Mantronix: The Album (1985).^[23] The 1980 release of "Riot in Lagos" was listed by The Guardian in 2011 as one of the 50 key events in the history of dance music.^[24]

Also in 1980, Sakamoto released the single "War Head / Lexington Queen", an experimental synthpop and electro record.^[25] That same year, Sakamoto began a long-standing collaboration with David Sylvian when he co-wrote and performed on the Japan track "Taking Islands In Africa". In 1982, Sakamoto worked on another collaboration with Sylvian, a single entitled "Bamboo Houses/Bamboo Music". That same year, his collaboration with Kiyoshiro Imawano, "Ikenai Rouge Magic", topped the Oricon singles chart.^[26] In 1983, he produced Mari Iijima's debut album Rose.

Following the disbanding of Yellow Magic Orchestra in 1983, Sakamoto released a number of solo albums during the 1980s. While primarily focused on the piano and synthesizer, this series of albums boasted a roster of collaborators that included David Sylvian, David Byrne, Thomas Dolby, Nam June Paik, and Iggy Pop, among others. Sakamoto would alternate between exploring a variety of musical styles, ideas, and genres – captured most notably in his groundbreaking 1983 album Illustrated Musical Encyclopedia – and focusing on a specific subject or theme, such as the Italian Futurism movement in Futurista (1986). At times, Sakamoto would also present varying interpretations of technology's intersection with music: He would present some pieces, such as "Replica", with Kraftwerkian rigidity and order, while he would infuse humanity and humor into others – "Broadway Boogie Woogie", for example, liberally lifts samples from Ridley Scott's film Blade Runner and pairs them with a raucous, sax-driven techno-pop backdrop.

As his solo career began to extend outside Japan in the late 1980s, Sakamoto's explorations, influences, and collaborators followed suit. Beauty (1989) boasted a tracklist that combined pop and traditional Japanese and Okinawan songs, yet featured guest appearances by Jill Jones, Brian Wilson, and Robbie Robertson. Heartbeat (1991) and Sweet Revenge (1994), meanwhile, looked to international horizons and worked with a global range of artists such as Roddy Frame, Dee Dee Brave, Marco Prince, Arto Lindsay, Youssou N'Dour, David Sylvian, and Ingrid Chavez. 1996 saw the appearance of two notable albums: Smoochy, which fused pop and electronica with bossa nova and other South American forms, and 1996, which featured a number of previously released pieces arranged for solo piano, accompanied with violin and cello.

Following 1996, Sakamoto simultaneously delved into the classical and "post-techno" genres with Discord (1998), an hour-long orchestral work in four parts. Here he evoked the melodic qualities of his film score work, imbued with the influence of 20th century classical composers and spoken word. The Sony Classical release also featured an interactive CD-ROM component and website that complemented the work. Shortly thereafter, the Ninja Tune record label released a series of remixes of various sections, produced by a number of prominent electronica artists, including Amon Tobin, Talvin Singh and DJ Spooky.

The next album, BTTB (1998) – an acronym for "Back to the Basics" – was a fairly opaque reaction to the prior year's multilayered, lushly orchestrated Discord. The album comprised a series of original pieces on solo piano, including "Energy Flow" (a major hit in Japan) and a frenetic, four-hand arrangement of the Yellow Magic Orchestra classic "Tong Poo." On the BTTB U.S. tour, he opened the show performing a brief avant-garde DJ set under the stage name DJ Lovegroove.

1999 saw the long-awaited release of Sakamoto's "opera" LIFE. It premiered with seven sold-out performances in Tokyo and Osaka. This ambitious multi-genre multi-media project featured contributions by over 100 performers, including Pina Bausch, Bernardo Bertolucci, Josep Carreras, His Holiness The Dalai Lama and Salman Rushdie.

Sakamoto later teamed with cellist Jaques Morelenbaum (a member of his 1996 trio), and Morelenbaum's wife, Paula, on a pair of albums celebrating the work of bossa nova pioneer Antonio Carlos Jobim. They recorded their first album, Casa (2001), mostly in Jobim's home studio in Rio de Janeiro, with Sakamoto performing on the late Jobim's grand piano. The album was well received, having been included in the list of New York Times's top albums of 2002.

Sakamoto collaborated with Alva Noto (an alias of Carsten Nicolai) to release Vrioon, an album of Sakamoto's piano clusters treated by Nicolai's unique style of digital manipulation, involving the creation of "micro-loops" and minimal percussion. The two produced this work by passing the pieces back and forth until both were satisfied with the result. This debut, released on German label Raster-Noton, was voted record of the year 2004 in the electronica category by British magazine The Wire. They later released Insen (2005) – while produced in a similar manner to Vrioon, this album is somewhat more restrained and minimalist.

Meanwhile, Sakamoto continues to craft music to suit any context: In 2005, Finnish mobile phone manufacturer Nokia hired Sakamoto to compose ring and alert tones for their high-end phone, the Nokia 8800. A recent reunion with YMO pals Hosono and Takahashi also caused a stir in the Japanese press. They released a single "Rescue" in 2007 and a DVD "HAS/YMO" in 2008. Sakamoto's latest album, Out Of Noise, was released on March 4, 2009 in Japan. In July 2009 Sakamoto was honored as Officier of Ordre des Arts et des Lettres at the French Embassy in Tokyo.

Film composer and actor [link]

	"Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence" noicon A sample of "Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence" from the 1983 film of the same name. It won him a BAFTA, was the basis for his hit song "Forbidden Colours", and has had a number of cover versions produced by other artists.
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Moviegoers may recognize Sakamoto primarily through his score work on two films: Nagisa Oshima's Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983), including the title theme and the duet "Forbidden Colours" with David Sylvian, and Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor (1987), the latter of which earned him the Academy Award with fellow composers David Byrne and Cong Su. In that same year he composed the score to the cult-classic anime film Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise.

Frequent collaborator David Sylvian contributed lead vocals to "Forbidden Colours" – the main theme to Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence – which became a minor hit. Sixteen years later, the piece resurfaced as a popular dance track called "Heart of Asia" (by the group Watergate).

Other films scored by Sakamoto include Pedro Almodóvar's Tacones lejanos (High Heels) (1991), Bertolucci's The Little Buddha (1993), Oliver Stone's Wild Palms (1993), John Maybury's Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998), Brian De Palma's Snake Eyes (1998) and Femme Fatale (2002), Oshima's Gohatto (1999), and Kiran Rao's Dhobi Ghat (2011).^[3] He also composed the score of the opening ceremony for the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, telecast live to an audience of over a billion viewers.

Several tracks from Sakamoto's earlier solo albums have also appeared in film soundtracks. In particular, variations of "Chinsagu No Hana" (from Beauty) and "Bibo No Aozora" (from 1996) provide the poignant closing pieces for Sue Brooks's Japanese Story (2003) and Alejandro González Iñárritu's Babel (2006), respectively.

Sakamoto has also acted in several films: perhaps his most notable performance was as the conflicted Captain Yonoi in Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence, alongside Takeshi Kitano and British rock singer David Bowie. He also played roles in The Last Emperor ( as Masahiko Amakasu) and Madonna's "Rain" music video.

Personal life [link]

Sakamoto has been married twice. His first marriage took place in 1972 but ended in divorce two years later. Sakamoto has a daughter from this relationship. Sakamoto then married popular Japanese pianist and singer Akiko Yano in 1982, having collaborated with her on some of her recordings. Yano was also a regular touring member of Yellow Magic Orchestra. They finally divorced in August 2006, 14 years after a mutual decision to live separately. They had one daughter, J-pop singer Miu Sakamoto.^[27]

In 1998, Italian ethnomusicologist Massimo Milano published Ryuichi Sakamoto. Conversazioni, a collection of essays and conversations.

He is also known as a critic of copyright law, arguing that it is antiquated in the information age. He argued that in "the last 100 years, only a few organisations have dominated the music world and ripped off both fans and creators" and that "with the internet we are going back to having tribal attitudes towards music."^[28] He is a member of anti-nuclear organization Stop Rokkasho and demand the abolition of Hamaoka Nuclear Power Plant.^[29]

Awards [link]

Ryuichi Sakamoto has won a number of awards for his work as a film composer, beginning with his score for Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983) winning him the BAFTA Award for Best Film Music.^[7] His greatest award success was for scoring The Last Emperor (1987), which won him the Academy Award for Best Original Score, Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, and Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media,^[8] as well as a BAFTA nomination.^[7]

His score for The Sheltering Sky (1990) later won him his second Golden Globe Award, and his score for Little Buddha (1993) received another Grammy Award nomination. In 1997, his collaboration with Toshio Iwai, Music Plays Images X Images Play Music, was awarded the Golden Nica, the grand prize of the Prix Ars Electronica competition.^[30] He also contributed to the Academy Award winning soundtrack for Babel (2006) with several pieces of music,^[31] including the "Bibo no Aozora" closing theme. In 2009, he was awarded the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from France's Ministry of Culture for his musical contributions.^[3]

The music video for "Risky", written and directed by Meiert Avis, also won the first ever MTV "Breakthrough Video Award". The ground breaking video explores transhumanist philosopher FM-2030's (Persian: فریدون اسفندیاری) ideas of "Nostalgia for the Future", in the form of an imagined love affair between a robot and one of Man Ray's models in Paris in the late 1930s. Additional inspiration was drawn from Jean Baudrillard, Edvard Munch's 1894 painting "Puberty", and Roland Barthes "Death of the Author". The surrealist black and white video uses stop motion, light painting, and other retro in-camera effects techniques. Meiert Avis shot Sakamoto while at work on the score for "The Last Emperor" in London. Sakamoto also appears in the video painting words and messages to an open shutter camera. Iggy Pop, who performs the vocals on "Risky", chose not to appear in the video, allowing his performance space to be occupied by the surrealist era robot.

Discography [link]

Studio albums [link]

Several albums exist in 2 versions, the original Japanese version and the international version, each having differences in tracklistings.

Thousand Knives (1978)
Tokyo Joe (1978, with Kazumi Watanabe, more a compilation than a proper album, featuring an odd mix of tracks from Thousand Knives and from the eponymous album by Watanabe's short lived Kylyn band)
Summer Nerves (1979, with The Kakutogi Session)
B2-Unit (1980)
Left-Handed Dream (1981) (Tracklistings differ between Japanese and international issues)
The Arrangement (1981, with Robin Scott) (originally released as an EP, later expended into a full album containing the complete sessions)
The End of Asia (1982, with Danceries)
Ongakuzukan (1984) with the single Replica (the international release from 1986 is titled Illustrated Musical Encyclopedia, and has a different tracklisting)
Esperanto (1985)
Futurista (1986)
Coda (1986)
Neo Geo (1987)
Playing the Orchestra (1989)
Undo #1 (1989)
Beauty (1989)
Heartbeat (1991)
Benedict Beauty (1992)
Soundbytes (1994, compilation of tracks recorded 1981–1986)
Sweet Revenge (1994)
Smoochy (1995)
1996 (1996)
Discord (1997)
BTTB (1999)
Cinemage (1999)
Intimate (1999, with Keizo Inoue)
L I F E (2000)
In The Lobby
Comica (2002)
Elephantism (2002)
Moto.tronic (2003, Compilation of tracks recorded between 1983 & 2003)
Love (2003)
Chasm (2004)
/04 (2004)
/05 (2005)
Cantus omnibus unus; for mixed or equal choir (2005)
Bricolages (2006)
Out of Noise (2009)
Playing the Piano (2009)

Original soundtracks and event scores [link]

Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983) (Won BAFTA)
Works I – CM (released in 2002, featuring commissioned works from 1981–1984)
Koneko Monogatari (A Kitten's Story) (1986)
Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise (Ôritsu uchûgun Oneamisu no tsubasa) (1987)
The Last Emperor (1987) (Won Oscar, Grammy, Golden Globe)
Fantasy of Light and Life (1989)
Black Rain (1989) – featuring his song "Laserman"
Tengai Makyo Ziria (1989)^[32] – video game
The Sheltering Sky (1990) (Won Golden Globe)
The Handmaid's Tale (1990)
Peachboy (Momotaro)
High Heels (1992)
Wuthering Heights (1992)
"El Mar Mediterrani" (composition for Barcelona Olympics opening ceremony) (1992)
Topazu / Tokyo Decadence (1992)
Wild Palms (1993)
Little Buddha (1993)
Music for Yohji Yamamoto Collection 1995
Stalker (1997)
Snake Eyes (1998)
Love is the devil (1998)
DreamCast (1998) – start-up sound for video game console^[33]
Gohatto (1999)
Poppoya (Main theme) (1999)
L.O.L.: Lack of Love – Dreamcast video game (2000), for which he was also the scenario writer
Zero Landmine (2001)
Minha Vida Como Un Filme (2002)
Femme Fatale (2002)
Century Of Reform (2002)
Derrida (2002)
Japanese Story (2003) – featuring "Chinsagu No Hana" (from Beauty)
Seven Samurai 20XX – PlayStation 2 video game (2004)
Shining Boy & Little Randy (2005)
Tony Takitani (2005)
Babel (2006) – featuring "Bibo No Aozora" (from 1996)
Dawn of Mana (2006) – PlayStation 2 video game
Silk (2007)
Indigo (Short-Film) (2008)
Women Without Men (2009)
Dhobi Ghat (India) (2011)
Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (2011)

With Morelenbaum² [link]

Casa (2001)
A Day in New York (2003)

With Carsten Nicolai, as alva noto + ryuichi sakamoto [link]

Vrioon (CD, 2002)
Insen (CD, 2005)
Revep (CD EP, 2006)
Insen Live (DVD, 2006)
Utp_ (CD+DVD, 2008, with Ensemble Modern)
Summvs (CD, 2011)

With Fennesz [link]

Sala Santa Cecilia (2005, live EP)
Cendre (2007)
Flumina (2011)

Other collaborations [link]

Geisha Girls
Japan: Gentlemen Take Polaroids (1980, features Ryuichi Sakamoto as co-writer of the track Taking Islands In Africa)
Mari Iijima: Rose (1983, produced by Ryuichi Sakamoto)
David Sylvian: Brilliant Trees (1984, features Ryuichi Sakamoto on piano/synthesizers on 3 tracks)
David Sylvian: Alchemy: An Index of Possibilities (1985, features Ryuichi Sakamoto on piano and strings on 1 track)
Thomas Dolby: Fieldwork (1985, written by Ryuichi Sakamoto and Thomas Dolby, featuring Thomas Dolby on vocals)
David Sylvian: Secrets of the Beehive (1987, featuring Ryuichi Sakamoto on all 10 tracks)
David van Tieghem: Safety in Numbers (1989, features Ryuichi Sakamoto on keyboards on 2 tracks)
Hector Zazou: Sahara Blue (1992, features Ryuichi Sakamoto on piano on 4 tracks)
Hector Zazou: Strong Currents (2003, features Ryuichi Sakamoto on piano)
Aztec Camera: Dreamland (1993, produced with Roddy Frame)
Holly Johnson: Love And Hate (1994), features Johnson on vocals
Arto Lindsay: O Corpo Sutil (1996, features Ryuichi Sakamoto on 4 tracks)
Red Hot + Rio, produced by the Red Hot Organization: É Preciso Perdoar (1996, Ryuichi Sakamoto performs keyboards for the duet sung by Cesária Évora and Caetano Veloso)
David Sylvian: Dead Bees on a Cake (1999, features Ryuichi Sakamoto on 7 tracks)
David Sylvian: Everything and Nothing (2000, features Ryuichi Sakamoto on 9 tracks)
M-Flo: Astromantic (2004, features Ryuichi Sakamoto on 1 track)
Senor Coconut: Yellow Fever! (2006, features Ryuichi Sakamoto on 1 track)
Willits + Sakamoto: Ocean Fire (2007, with Christopher Willits)
Les Nouvelles Polyphonies Corses: Les Nouvelles Polyphonies Corses (features Ryuichi Sakamoto on piano and backing vocals)
Ayuo: Memory Theatre (features Ryuichi Sakamoto on two tracks)
Rodrigo Leão: "Cinema" (features Ryuichi Sakamoto on 1 track)

Commmons [link]

Main article: Commmons

In 2006, Sakamoto, with avex Group's help, founded Commmons (コモンズ, Komonzu^?), a record label promising change in the way music should be. For him, Commmons is not his label, but is a platform for all aspiring artists to join as equal collaborators and share for benefits of the music industry. The word Commmons has three M's because the 3rd M stands for music.

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External links [link]

The official Ryūichi Sakamoto web site
Commmons – Sakamoto's record label
Ryuichi Sakamoto at Allmusic
Raster-Noton site
Fan Website
Ustream – Live Channel for RYUICHI SAKAMOTO NORTH AMERICAN TOUR 2010
Classical Archives Interview
interview for Lexnews magazine

Ryuichi Sakamoto related articles

Yellow Magic Orchestra

Haruomi Hosono
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Yukihiro Takahashi

Studio Albums

Live Albums

Singles

"Firecracker"
"Tong Poo"
"Technopolis"
"La femme chinoise"
"Computer Game"
"Rydeen"
"Behind the Mask"
"Nice Age"
"Tighten Up"
"Riot in Lagos"
"Cue"
"Mass"
"Taiso"
"Pure Jam"
"Kimi ni Mune Kyun"
"Kageki na Shukujo"
"You've Got to Help Yourself"
"Every Time I Look Around (I Hear the Madmen Call)"
"Pocketful of Rainbows"
"Be a Superman"

As HASYMO

"Rescue / Rydeen 79/07"
"The City of Light / Tokyo Town Pages"
HAS/YMO
EUYMO
LONDONYMO – Yellow Magic Orchestra Live in London 15/6 08

People	Hideki Matsutake Akiko Yano Chris Mosdell Peter Barakan Takashi Matsumoto

Bands	Sketch Show Happy End Sadistic Mika Band

Labels	Commmons (Avex Group) Sony Music House Restless EMI Japan UMG Japan/A&M Japan Alfa

v t e Academy Award for Best Original Score (1981–2000)

Vangelis (1981) John Williams/Henry Mancini and Leslie Bricusse (1982) Bill Conti/Michel Legrand, Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman (1983) Maurice Jarre/Prince (1984) John Barry (1985) Herbie Hancock (1986) Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Byrne and Cong Su (1987) Dave Grusin (1988) Alan Menken (1989) John Barry (1990) Alan Menken (1991) Alan Menken (1992) John Williams (1993) Hans Zimmer (1994) Luis Enríquez Bacalov/Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz (1995) Gabriel Yared/Rachel Portman (1996) James Horner/Anne Dudley (1997) Nicola Piovani/Stephen Warbeck (1998) John Corigliano (1999) Tan Dun (2000)

Complete list (1934–1940) (1941–1960) (1961–1980) (1981–2000) (2001–2020)

v t e BAFTA Award for Best Film Music (1980–1999)

John Williams (1980) Carl Davis (1981) John Williams (1982) Ryuichi Sakamoto (1983) Ennio Morricone (1984) Maurice Jarre (1985) Ennio Morricone (1986) Ennio Morricone (1987) John Williams (1988) Maurice Jarre (1989) Andrea and Ennio Morricone (1990) Jean-Claude Petit (1991) David Hirschfelder (1992) John Williams (1993) Don Was (1994) Luis Bacalov (1995) Gabriel Yared (1996) Nellee Hooper (1997) David Hirschfelder (1998) Thomas Newman (1999)

Complete list (1968–1979) (1980–1999) (2000–2019)

v t e Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score (1970–1989)

Love Story - Francis Lai (1970) Shaft - Isaac Hayes (1971) The Godfather - Nino Rota (1972) Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Neil Diamond (1973) The Little Prince - Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe (1974) Jaws - John Williams (1975) A Star is Born - Kenneth Ascher, Paul Williams (1976) Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope - John Williams (1977) Midnight Express - Giorgio Moroder (1978) Apocalypse Now - Carmine Coppola, Francis Ford Coppola (1979) The Stunt Man - Dominic Frontiere (1980) (1981) E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial - John Williams (1982) Flashdance - Giorgio Moroder (1983) A Passage to India - Maurice Jarre (1984) Out of Africa - John Barry (1985) The Mission - Ennio Morricone (1986) The Last Emperor - David Byrne, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Cong Su (1987) Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey - Maurice Jarre (1988) The Little Mermaid - Alan Menken (1989)

Complete List (1947–1969) (1970–1989) (1990–2009) (2010–2029)

v t e Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score (1990–2009)

The Sheltering Sky - Richard Horowitz, Ryuichi Sakamoto (1990) Beauty and the Beast - Alan Menken (1991) Aladdin - Alan Menken (1992) Heaven & Earth - Kitarō (1993) The Lion King - Hans Zimmer (1994) A Walk in the Clouds - Maurice Jarre (1995) The English Patient - Gabriel Yared (1996) Titanic - James Horner (1997) The Truman Show - Burkhard Dallwitz, Philip Glass (1998) The Legend of 1900 - Ennio Morricone (1999) Gladiator - Lisa Gerrard, Hans Zimmer (2000) Moulin Rouge! - Craig Armstrong (2001) Frida - Elliot Goldenthal (2002) The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - Howard Shore (2003) The Aviator - Howard Shore (2004) Memoirs of a Geisha - John Williams (2005) The Painted Veil - Alexandre Desplat (2006) Atonement - Dario Marianelli (2007) Slumdog Millionaire - A. R. Rahman (2008) Up- Michael Giacchino (2009)

Complete List (1947–1969) (1970–1989) (1990–2009) (2010–2029)

Avex Group Holdings Inc.

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Persondata
Name	Sakamoto, Ryuichi
Alternative names	坂本龍一
Short description	Japanese composer
Date of birth	January 17, 1952
Place of birth	Tokyo, Japan
Date of death
Place of death

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Mr. Lawrence
Born	Douglas Lawrence Osowski (1969-01-01) January 1, 1969 (age 43) East Brunswick Township, New Jersey, U.S.
Occupation	Comedian, voice actor, writer, storyboard artist, animator, director
Years active	1992–present

Douglas Lawrence Osowski (born January 1, 1969), better known as Mr. Lawrence and sometimes credited as Doug Lawrence, is an American voice actor, comedian, writer, storyboard artist, animator and director.

Career [link]

He is best known for his work on the animated TV series SpongeBob SquarePants, on which he has long-running-roles as Sheldon Plankton, Larry the Lobster, Elain and various other characters.

He is the voices of Edward T. Platypus, Nurse Leslie, Dave, and Ping-Pong on Camp Lazlo. Lawrence also performed the voice of Filburt in Rocko's Modern Life and is recently the voice of the Announcer and Manant in The Aquabats! Super Show!. Lawrence is a standup comedian, cartoonist, writer-director, animator and producer on the television series Johnny Talk. He worked on The Ren and Stimpy Show in its second season as a layout assistant. Apart from his voice work he is a writer on SpongeBob SquarePants and worked as a writer on Rocko's Modern Life and The Twisted Whiskers Show. As a comedian, Mr. Lawrence performed in New Jersey and Los Angeles, collaborating with comedian Jeremy Kramer and Boston comedy writer Martin Olson. Jeff "Swampy" Marsh, a storyboard writer for Rocko's Modern Life, described Lawrence as bearing a "unique sense of humor," and that one "would really have to know Doug to understand (or not understand)" his style. Marsh says that the rationale for Lawrence's humor techniques and decisions "remain a mystery to us forever." ^[1]

References [link]

^ "Dan Abrams' interview with Jeff "Swampy" Marsh," The Rocko's Modern Life FAQ

External links [link]

Mr. Lawrence at the Internet Movie Database

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Alva Noto
Carsten Nicolai as Noto, playing live at MUTEK 2004
Background information
Birth name	Carsten Nicolai
Also known as	Aleph-1, Alva Noto, Noto
Born	1965 (age 47)
Origin	Karl-Marx-Stadt, Germany
Genres	Electronica, Glitch, Microsound
Instruments	Synthesizer, keyboards, laptop, guitar, percussion
Labels	Raster-Noton, Mille Plateaux, Line
Associated acts	Noto, Cyclo, Opto, Signal (german band)
Website	www.alvanoto.com

Alva Noto is a stage name of sound artist Carsten Nicolai who uses art and music as complementary tools to create microscopic views of creative processes.^{[clarification needed]} Another alias he uses is Noto. He is a member of the music groups Signal (with Frank Bretschneider and Olaf Bender aka Byetone) and Cyclo. (with Ryoji Ikeda).

Nicolai was born in Karl-Marx-Stadt, East Germany. His interest in sound and its physical qualities may be inspired by his childhood obsession with bats, whom as a child he believed he could communicate with. He first studied architecture and landscape design before pursuing an interest in the theoretical properties of sound and space. Resettling in Berlin in the early 1990s, Nicolai founded the experimental music label Noton as a platform for his conceptual and experimental musical concerns.^[1] In 1996 this was to become Raster-Noton. Archiv Für Ton Und Nichtton with the collaboration of Olaf Bender.

Nicolai transforms sound by looping oscillators and tone generators. He does not use sequencers, but edits his work to give his compositions rhythmic structures. Clicks and glitches are not used as ornamental additions to the compositions but make up the essential rhythmic and harmonic elements of the work. He frequently samples electronic information transmission sounds such as fax tones, modem sounds and telephone pops and clicks are sampled and organised.^{[citation needed]}, among other overlooked sound sources.

Nicolai has recently written an opera, Sparkie: Cage and Beyond, in collaboration with Michael Nyman.^[2]

Carsten Nicolai also works as a visual artist. Using the principles of Cymatics he visualizes sound. Nicolai’s practice is formed by a convergence of sound, painting and sculpture that results in installations exploring the idea of creativity filtered through modularized systems and codes.^{[clarification needed]} His music features prominently in his art. Nicolai’s work exposes the limitations, and potential beauty and creativity, possible within strict logical systems.^{[clarification needed]}^{[citation needed]}

Nicolai has performed and created installations in many of the world's most prestigious spaces including the Guggenheim, New York, the SF MoMA, Modern Art Oxford, NTT Tokyo, Tate Modern and Venice Biennale, Italy. As a member (and co-founder) of the Raster-Noton label he was responsible for the acclaimed CD series '20 to 2000' that went on to win the Golden Nica prize at Prix Ars Electronica, 2000.

1 Selected discography
2 References
3 External links

Selected discography [link]

Solo albums [link]

Prototypes — 2000 (Mille Plateaux).
Transform — 2001 (Mille Plateaux) & re-released on Raster-Noton in 2008. 'Transall cycle' "approaches the problematics of speed, the vision of utopia and the dissolution of our ideas into fragments."
Xerrox Vol.1 — 2007 (Raster-Noton)
Aleph-1 — 2007 (as 'Aleph-1') (iDeal Recordings)
Unitxt — 2008 (Raster-Noton)
Xerrox Vol.2 — 2009 (Raster-Noton)
For 2 — 2010 (12k/line)
Univrs — 2011 (Raster-Noton)

Solo EPs [link]

Transrapid — 2004 (Raster-Noton).
Transvision — 2005 (Raster-Noton).
Transspray — 2006 (Raster-Noton).

Solo compilations [link]

For — June 2006 (Line, a division of 12k). A collection of unreleased tracks created over the previous 4 years.
For 2 — March 2010 (Line, a division of 12k). A collection of unreleased tracks created over the previous 7 years.

with Ryuichi Sakamoto [link]

Vrioon — December 2002 (Raster-Noton)
Insen — March 2005 (Raster-Noton)
Revep — March 2006 (Raster-Noton)
Insen Live — October 2006 (Raster-Noton). DVD release. Contains fifteen tracks and video footage from the 'Insen' tour. Recordings for the DVD took place at Casa da Musica, Porto, Portugal, on June 11, 2006 and at Sonar festival 2006, Barcelona, Spain, on June 15, 2006 in Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound. Also contains live tracks from the 2005 Insen album, as well as previously unreleased tracks such as 'Xerox' and 'Barco.'
utp_ — September 2008 (Raster-Noton)
Summvs — May 2011 (Raster-Noton)

with Ryoji Ikeda [link]

Cyclo — 2001 (Raster-Noton)
Cyclo.id — 2011 (Raster-Noton)

with Scanner (Robin Rimbaud)[link]

Uniform: SF MoMA 2001. CD Contains 1 track, "Uniform," performed and recorded by Carsten Nicolai and Robin Rimbaud (Scanner) for the exhibition of ""010101: Art In Technological Times"" at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) on March 3, 2001.

with Blixa Bargeld, as ANBB [link]

Ret Marut Handshake — 2010 (Raster-Noton)
Mimikry — 2010 (Raster-Noton)

with Opiate (Thomas Knak), as "Opto"[link]

Opto Files — 2001 (Raster-Noton). Limited CD release. Number 6 in the raster.static series. CD Comes in a silver anti-static bag with green card insert.
Opto: 2nd — June 2004 (Hobby Industries). The CD Contains ten tracks, all titled with times of the day. The collaboration was created in a 48-hour period and was inspired by the restored recording from a cassette found in a forest in Eastern Germany.

with Zeitkratzer [link]

Zeitkratzer & Carsten Nicolai: Electronics — 2008 (Zeitkratzer Records)

Compilation appearances (exclusive/non-albums tracks)[link]

"Monophaser 4" from "V.a. - :2" (2008)
"Garment" from "Sound Canvas | 1" (2008)
"Planet Rock" from "Recovery" (2008)
"Stalker" from "In Memoriam Andrey Tarkovsky" (2008)
"Haloid Xerrox Copy 3 (Paris)" from "Mind The Gap Volume 70" (2007)
"06.1 Quanta Random" from "Tribute to Iannis Xenakis" (2007)
"Sonolumi (For Camera Lucida)" from "Camera Lucida" (2007)
"Odradek (Music to Play in the Dark)" from "It Just Is In Memoriam Jhonn Balance" (2005)
"Re10" from "Landscape 2" (2005)
"Post-Remo" from "Richard Chartier + Various - Re'Post'Postfabricated" (2005)
"Party Plasibenpuis (for Rune Lindblad)" from "The Hidden City: Sound Portraits from Goteborg" (2004)
"Time…Dot (3)" from "An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music / Third A-Chronology 1952-2004" (2004)
"m6re" from "SoundxVision 2004" (2004)
"Obi 2 Min." from "Frecuencies [Hz]" (2003)
"60 sec" from "Soundcultures" (2003)
"Strategies Against War 1.0--Covering All Information with White Noise" from "60 Sound Artists Protest the War" (2003) as Carsten Nicolai
"MM", "Time Dot" from "Raster-Noton. Archiv 1" (2003) as Noto
"Obi_2.3" from "Electrograph 02 - Athens Sound Media Festival 02" (2002)
"Menschmaschine" from "Klangmaschine_Soundmachine" (2002)
"Crystal R" from "Various - Live Sets At Ego 1998-2000" (2002) as Noto
"M 06 Short" from "Electric Ladyland Clickhop Version 1.0" (2001)
"Neue Stadt (Skizze 8)" from "Clicks & Cuts, Vol. 2" (2001)
"Modul 4", "Impulse" from "Raster-Noton.(O)acis Box" (2001) as Noto
"Neue Stadt Skizze 1" from "Between Two Points" (2001) as Noto
"Sound Mobile" from "Ringtones" (2001)
"Prototyp P" from "Raster-Noton. Oacis" (2000)
"Prototype n." from "Clicks & Cuts" (2000)
"Crystal s 10 60 sec." from "Computer Music Journal Sound Anthology, vol. 24" (2000) as Noto
"Crystal.s2" from "Microscopic Sound" (1999) as Noto
"∞ [Radio Teeth Edit]" from "Various - Because Tomorrow Comes #2" (1999) as Carsten Nicolai
"Polyfoto 1a-1" from "Modulation & Transformation 4" (1999) as Noto
"Zeit T3" from "Effe 1999" (1999)
"POL .Motor", ".Test", ".Versuch", ".Anordnung", ".Variation", ".Modell" from "Just About Now" (1998) as Carsten Nicolai
"Chemnitz" from "Decay" (1997) as Noto

Remixes [link]

Ryuichi Sakamoto - Insensatez (Re-model by Alva Noto)
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Undercooled (Alva Noto Remodel)
Björk - Innocence (Alva Noto Unitxt Remodel 12" Remix)
Byetone - Plastic Star (Alva Noto Remix)
Modwheelmood - Things Will Change (Remodeled by Alva Noto)
Spyweirdos - Wiesbaden (Already Happened Tomorrow) (Schwarzer Bock Mix)
Ludovico Einaudi - Divenire (Alva Noto Remodel)
Pomassl - Sol (Alva Noto Rmx)
Machinefabriek - Stofstuk (Alva Noto Remix)
Opiate - 100301 (Re-Model by Alva Noto)
Greie Gut Fraktion - Wir Bauen Eine Neue Stadt (Alva Noto Remodel)
Kangding Ray - Pruitt Igoe (Rise) (Alva Noto Remodel)
Sōtaisei Riron + Keiichirō Shibuya - Our Music (Remodel Light)^[3]

Installations, etc.[link]

Audio installation in the Piazza del Plebiscito, Naples, Italy, December, 2009
Opening performance for "010101: Art In Technological Times" at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) on March 3, 2001
Lovebytes Digital Festival, Sheffield, England, 2003
Sónar Music Festival, 2004 and 2009
Netmage, Bologna, Italy, 2006
BBmix Festival, 31 October 2008
Club Transmediale, Berlin, Germany, 2009, 2008 and 2000
Pace Gallery, New York, 2010 ^[4]

References [link]

^ http://www.answers.com/topic/alva-noto
^ "Linguistic budgie inspires opera". BBC News. 2009-03-25. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/tyne/7963007.stm. Retrieved 2010-04-23.
^ "相対性理論+渋谷慶一郎コラボ曲の高音質音源を先行配信" (in Japanese). natalie.mu. 1 December 2009. http://natalie.mu/music/news/24571. Retrieved 5 January 2012.
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