YMO in London

via ryk
"Here are a couple of very blurred pictures form last nights YMO gig
at the RFH in London. Sakamoto, Takahashi & Hosono, plus three backup members playing lapsteel guitar, flugal horn, guitar and macintosh laptops. Takahashi was playing very tight drums with a tiny MIDI controller with nice pink xylophone type sticks, and later very tight real drums. Hosono played mostly electric bass guitar, and some singing - nice voice ! Sakamoto played keyboards, a lot of Fender Rhodes type stuff, with distortions and delay.

The highlights were some of the classics such as "ongaku" & "sportsman" although they played a lot of Human Audio Spounge tracks, which were pretty good. They played a new arrangement of Rydeen, with syncopated drumming, and a messy version of Riot in Lagos, plus some urprisingly groovy jazz-funk numbers. Unfortunately no Firecracker, or Cosmic Surfin' Sound mix was a bit harsh, piercing mid-range, but solid bass, maybe too much laptop audio!"
That a Prophet-5 in the top shot? YMO on MATRIXSYNTH