Electronic music
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‘Like brushing my teeth’: how Michiru Aoyama writes, records and releases an album every day
For two years, the Kyoto musician has risen at five, watched football, then made an eight-track album of super…
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Ryuichi Sakamoto obituary
Japanese composer and electronic music pioneer behind the soundtrack for the 1983 film Merry Christmas, Mr Law…
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Ryuichi Sakamoto, Japanese pop pioneer and Oscar-winning composer, dies aged 71
Sakamoto was one of Japan’s most successful musicians, acclaimed for work in Yellow Magic Orchestra as well as…