The Beatniks
Encyclopedia
The Beatniks are a duo formed by Yellow Magic Orchestra
drummer/singer Yukihiro Takahashi
and Keiichi Suzuki. The duo's debut album featured vocals mostly in English
, with the rest in French
.
Yellow Magic Orchestra
Sakamoto first worked with Hosono as a member of his live band in 1976, while Takahashi recruited Sakamoto to produce his debut solo recording in 1977 following the split of the Sadistic Mika Band...
drummer/singer Yukihiro Takahashi
Yukihiro Takahashi
Yukihiro Takahashi is a Japanese musician, who is best known as the drummer and lead vocalist of the Yellow Magic Orchestra, and as the former drummer of the Sadistic Mika Band.-Biography:...
and Keiichi Suzuki. The duo's debut album featured vocals mostly in English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
, with the rest in French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
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Albums
- Exitentialism (1981) Vap
- The Beatniks (1982) Statik
- Exitentialist A Go-Go (1987) Pony Canyon
- Another High Exit (1994) Vap (Remix of Exitentialism)
- The Show Vol.4 - Yohji Yamamoto Collection Music (1996)
- Mri: Musical Resonance Imaging (2001) Pony Canyon