Plastic clothing! Wild hair cuts! Synthesizers!! It’s an hour of music culled from the early 80s synthpop explosion in Japan — featuring Yellow Magic Orchestra (of course),  Ippu-Do, Mayumi Chiwaki, and the inimitable Miharu Koshi. From Bowie to Kanye, everybody was influenced by Japan’s early 80s love affair with the synthesizer in pop music. Find out why.

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Playlist (all titles written in Roman lettering):

Ippu-Do — Sumire September Love, 1982
Miharu Koshi — Parallelisme, 1984
Yasuaki Shimizu — Suiren, 1982
Phew — Closed, 1981
Yellow Magic Orchestra — Kimi Ni Mune Kyun, 1983
Ryuichi Sakamoto — Relâche, 1981
Chakra — Medaka, 1981
Haruomi Hosono — Gaplus, 1984
Aikiko Yano — Rose Garden, 1981
Chiemi Manabe — Untotooku, 1982
Mayumi Chiwaki — Metallic Heaven, 1986
Aikiko Yano — Tong poo, 1982
Hiroshi Sato — Say Goodbye, 1982