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Released
  
February 21, 1980

Public Pressure (1980)
  
X∞Multiplies (1980)

Release date
  
21 February 1980

Length
  
42:24

Artist
  
Yellow Magic Orchestra

Label
  
A&M Records

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Recorded
  
16 October & 24 October 1979 at The Venue, London (tracks 1-4) 2–4 August 1979 at the Greek Theatre, Los Angeles (track 5) 6 November 1979 at The Bottom Line, New York City (tracks 6-8) 19 December 1979 at the Nakano Sun Plaza, Nakano (track 9)

Producer
  
YMO with Haruomi Hosono

Genres
  
Techno, Electropop, Electronic dance music, New wave

Similar
  
Yellow Magic Orchestra albums, Electropop albums

Public Pressure (公的抑圧, Kōteki yokuatsu, Public pressure) is Yellow Magic Orchestra's first live album, released on February 21, 1980. It was their second number-one album in Japan, setting a record of 250,000 copies sold within two weeks of release.

Contents

It was recorded during three dates of the group's first tour of Europe and the USA. The group toured as a six-piece, but guitarist Kazumi Watanabe was mixed out and replaced with more keyboards due to contractual matters between record labels. Un-dubbed recordings from this tour were later released on the album Faker Holic. Most of Yukihiro Takahashi's vocals were also replaced with those re-recorded afterward in studio. These were not restored on Faker Holic.

The first half of the album was recorded live at The Venue in London. "Cosmic Surfin'" was recorded at The Greek Theatre in Los Angeles while second side was recorded at The Bottom Line in New York City by John Venable using the 2nd Generation Record Plant Remote Truck.

Tong poo public pressure version ymo


Personnel

Yellow Magic Orchestra - Arrangements, Electronics, Mixing engineers, Producers
  • Haruomi Hosono - Bass, Synth Bass
  • Ryuichi Sakamoto - Keyboards, Vocoder, Drum machine
  • Yukihiro Takahashi - Drums, Electronic drums, Vocals
  • Guest musicians
  • Hideki Matsutake - Modular synthesizers, Sequencers, Programming
  • Akiko Yano - Keyboards, Backing Vocals
  • Tomoko Nunoi (uncredited) - French Narration/Sexy Voice (sampled) on "La femme chinoise"
  • Staff
  • Kunihiko Murai & Shōrō Kawazoe - Executive Producers
  • Norio Yoshizawa - Recording & Mixing engineer
  • Mitsuo Koike - Recording engineer
  • Masayoshi Sukita - Photography
  • Heikichi Harata (WXY, INC.) - Artwork
  • Lou Beach (uncredited) - Logo Type
  • Songs

    1Rydeen5:15
    2Solid State Survivor4:04
    3Tong Poo6:58

    References

    Public Pressure Wikipedia