Murdered by the Music, also known as Ongaku Satsujin (Japanese Kanji: 音楽殺人) in Japan, is the second studio album by Japanese multi-instrumentalist Yukihiro Takahashi, released on June 21, 1980 by Seven Seas via King Records. Murdered by the Music was released whilst Takahashi was an active member of the Yellow Magic Orchestra. As well as his YMO bandmates Ryuichi Sakamoto and Haruomi Hosono, and longtime YMO collaborator Hideki Matsutake, the album also features contributions from Sandii and Makoto Ayukawa of Sheena & the Rokkets.
In Japan, the album reached No. 12 on the general Oricon chart, and No. 14 on the Oricon LP chart.
Track listing
Personnel Yukihiro Takahashi - Producer, Arranger, Lead Vocals, Vocoder, Drums, Percussion Ryuichi Sakamoto - Synthesizers, Synthesizer Programming, Electric & Acoustic Piano, Vocoder Haruomi Hosono - Acoustic Guitar, Bass Guitar Sandii - Backing Vocals Hideki Matsutake - Computer Operator Kenji Omura - Electric Guitar Makoto Ayukawa - Electric Guitar "Teppei" Kasai - Engineer Toshiro Itoh - Engineer Seiichi Chiba - Recording Engineer Chris Mosdell - Lyrics, Quasimutanic voice
Staff Mitsuru Torii - Art Direction "Bricks" - Costume "Donbay" Nagata - Equipment Co-ordinator Mikio Honda - Hair & Make Up Hiroshi Okura - Management Yoichi Itoh - Production Co-ordinator Kenji Ando - Recording Director Masayoshi Sukita - Photography
See also 1980 in Japanese music
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