.......................................Track taken from the album BGM.Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO) is a Japanese electropop band, formed in 1978. They were ranked No.2 in a list of Japan's top 100 musicians by HMV. The band is renowned as having pioneered the Synthpop and Electropop music genres, along with Germany's Kraftwerk. The principal members are Haruomi Hosono (bass, keyboards), Yukihiro Takahashi (drums and percussion, lead vocals) and Ryuichi Sakamoto (keyboards).The group has splitted and reformed several times, and under other names. (more info at WIKIPEDIA)........................................Y..............M.................O......BGM (BackGround Music) was the Yellow Magic Orchestra's 1981 album release, produced by Haruomi Hosono. Japanese promotional material indicates that "BGM" could also mean "Beautiful Grotesque Music". "Loom" is a re-working of "The Infinite Space Octave" by Y.M.O. computer programmer Hideki Matsutake (the man behind the group LOGIC SYSTEM).........................................Recently performing live as Human Audio Sponge; Hosono, Sakamoto and Takahashi did a live performance together as Yellow Magic Orchestra for the Live Earth, Kyoto event on July 7th 2007, which raised money and awareness of a 'climate in crisis'.In August 2007, the band once again reformed, taking the name HASYMO, combining the names of Human Audio Sponge and Yellow Magic Orchestra. Their first single under this name, “Rescue,” was written for the film Appleseed EX Machina.Y.M.O. - BGM (1981)