Length 33:17 Release date 16 December 1984 Label Another Record Company | Artist Haruomi Hosono Producer Haruomi Hosono Genre Electronic music | |
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Released December 16, 1984 (1984-12-16) Similar Haruomi Hosono albums, Electronic music albums | ||
Haruomi hosono body snatchers sfx album
S・F・X is a 1984 album by Japanese electronic musician Haruomi Hosono. The album is his first solo album after Yellow Magic Orchestra and the first Japanese album to have been recorded with digital synthesizers. Credited also is "Friends of Earth", as Hosono would later form a band with this name. The album is the first album released by label Non Standard, a record label created between Hosono and Teichiku Records to release the technopop/hip-hop styled material he worked on.
Contents
The 1988, 1993 and 2001 reissues of S・F・X contain tracks from Non-Standard Mixture, an EP created by Hosono the same year as the album.
Vinyl/Cassette Version
All tracks written by Haruomi Hosono, except "Body Snatchers" and "Strange Love", with lyrics translated by Peter Barakan.
Personnel
Songs
1Body Snatchers (special mix)Friends of Earth5:49
2AndrogenaFriends of Earth4:52
3SFXFriends of Earth5:54