Electropop and Club Music of Japan

The electronic pop music in Japan became a successful commodity with the technopop craze of the late 70s and 80s, in the beginning of the yellow magic orchestra and solo albums of Ryuichi Sakamoto and Haruopmi Hosono in the year 1978 before hitting fame in 79/80. Influenced by disco, impressionist and 20^th century classical composition, jazz/fusion pop, current wave and technopop musicians like Kraftwerk and Telex, these musicians were commercial yet uncompromising. Ryuichi Sakamoto claims that to me, making pop music is not a compromise because I enjoy doing it. The musicians that fall the banner of the technopop in Japanese are as loose as those that do so in the west, thus new wave ensembles like The Plastic and P-Model fall under the section alongside the symphonic techno arrangements of yellow magic orchestra. The popularity of this music meant that several famous musicians of the 70s that producers started employing electronic arrangements for new singers in the 80s. Now, the upcoming musicians such as Polysics pay explicit homage to this period of Japanese well-known (and in some cases underground or complex to obtain) music. And the all trio girls ensemble perfume, who debuted with Tokuma Japan in the year 2005, are also a techno-pop band, taking on electronic, dance and pop music taking on auto-tune, electrohouse and vocoders upon their singing to a major label. They are contemporarily considered as one of the most famous ensembles in Japan.