Ryuichi Sakamoto

[Furtho]

Died on Tuesday at the age of 71.

[diggedy derek]

Terrible news, although he'd been ill for a while. He was the coolest, a good guy, and he was still working.

[caja-dglh]

Oh no. That is really sad news.

[Antepli Ejderha]

Fuck. As soon as I saw the thread title.

[Antepli Ejderha]

https://twitter.com/geetadayal/status/1642592476652515328?t=_CUQBIlFGzehL6axHOu2fQ&s=19

Thought this was good

[Sits]

Oh no. Unofficial fifth member of Japan, was on their 1982 tour I went to and collaborated brilliantly with Sylvian.

Not to mention that he did enormous amounts without them of course.

RIP, 71 is terribly young.

[Nefertiti2]

This is very nice

https://twitter.com/Nick_Newman/status/1642565593101479937?s=20

[beak]

Commemorating with a listen to the brilliant B-2 Unit.

A question I've been pondering recently: is YMO's Tong Poo the first ever appearance of the now-everywhere oowa oowa party noise?

[ad hoc]

I believe this was first by a few months https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmzxG9kdZhM

[beak]

Nice one ad hoc, not only does OTF have a depth of knowledge, it's quick in delivering it!

[diggedy derek]

these ringtones that Sakamoto made are so good you can sit down and listen to them

[hobbes]

The thing I most remember him from is acting and scoring Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence. There's something hauntingly beautiful about that soundtrack.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGs_vGt0MY8

[matt j]

I didn't know that Takahashi died (too) earlier this year. Fuck.

Still maybe the greatest, coolest short concert on youtube:

https://youtu.be/QUn6V49PG00

[G-Man]

I didn't know that Takahashi died (too) earlier this year. Fuck.

You never need to miss an important pop music death with this monthly thing I do. A new one, covering the deaths in March, is dropping tomorrow (Tuesday) morning. Naturally with as few lines about Sakomoto.

[Jobi1]

Terribly sad news – he was an absolute master.

The thing I most remember him from is acting and scoring Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence. There's something hauntingly beautiful about that soundtrack.

It's his soundtrack work I'm most familiar with (it's a genre I absolutely love). His claustrophobic, oppressive score for The Revenant is absolute genius, and it still baffles and entertains me to this day that he was hired to score the Nic Cage vehicle Snake Eyes, and delivered an absolutely epic, sprawling classic that the otherwise dreadful film absolutely did not deserve.

[Furtho]

A brief profile broadcast as part of NHK World's news segment.