| Technodon | ||||
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| Released | May 26, 1993 | |||
| Recorded | February 2, 1992 – January 31, 1993 | |||
| Studio | Skyline Studio,Midtown Manhattan,Manhattan,New York City Victor Studio,Aoyama,Minato,Tokyo | |||
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| Length | 63:24 | |||
| Label | Toshiba EMI | |||
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Technodon is the eighth and final studio album byYellow Magic Orchestra and released in 1993, a decade after the band's original breakup. Because the name Yellow Magic Orchestra was owned by former record labelAlfa Records, the band were forced to release the album under the nameYMO (typically stylized as the "YMO" initialism crossed out by a large "X"). For the tour that followed, they were billed asNot YMO. Future releases by the band would be made under the names Human Audio Sponge and HASYMO.
At the time of recording,Haruomi Hosono andRyuichi Sakamoto were incorporating manyworld music elements into their sound, which is still evident onTechnodon, though slightly pared down and featuring simpler technopop arrangements.Yukihiro Takahashi mainly useddrum machines for the record as opposed to a drum kit.
All songs arranged byYMO.
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Length |
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| 1. | "Be a Superman" | Ryuichi Sakamoto,Yukihiro Takahashi | Sakamoto, Takahashi | 5:21 |
| 2. | "Nanga Def?" | Sakamoto | 5:10 | |
| 3. | "Floating Away" | William Gibson | Takahashi,Haruomi Hosono | 6:46 |
| 4. | "Dolphinicity" | Hosono | 5:12 | |
| 5. | "Hi-Tech Hippies" | 4:24 | ||
| 6. | "I Tre Merli" | 6:05 | ||
| 7. | "Nostalgia" | Sakamoto | 4:48 | |
| 8. | "Silence of Time" | Sakamoto | Sakamoto, Takahashi | 5:41 |
| 9. | "Waterford" | Sakamoto, Takahashi | 5:38 | |
| 10. | "O.K." | Hosono | Hosono, Takahashi | 4:29 |
| 11. | "Chance" | Sakamoto | 4:57 | |
| 12. | "Pocketful of Rainbows" | Fred Wise,Ben Weisman (Japanese translation: Reiko Yukawa) | Wise, Weisman | 5:00 |
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Length |
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| 13. | "Pocketful of Rainbows (English Version)" | Wise, Weisman | Wise, Weisman | 4:36 |
